ROBERTO GARELLO

Roberto Garello received a degree in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) in February 1990 from Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on cryptography. In 1994 he obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on Trellis Coded Modulation. During his doctorate, he spent six months at the "Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems", Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, and at the "Signal and Information Processing Laboratory", ETH, Zürich. From October 1994 to September 1997, he was with the Radio Link Laboratory of Marconi Communications in Genoa, where he worked on all-digital high rate modems. From November 1998 to October 2001, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Ancona. From November 2001 he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Coordinator of the Communication Engineering degree at Politecnico di Torino. In 2017 he was an Adjunct Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of California State University, Los Angeles. He collaborates with many telecommunication industries and laboratories, included the ESA, DLR, Telecom Italia, and RAI. IEEE member since 1990, he was appointed Senior Member in 2003. His main research topics are communication systems, space links, 5G, and channel coding. On these topics he has published more than one hundred papers. His current Scopus h-index is 21. He has been the Project Manager of 40 international and national research projects. He has been the thesis supervisor of 150 MS students and the advisor of 10 PhD students (plus 2 ongoing).