Aitor del Coso

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ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES AREA

Former Ph.D. Candidate/Researcher @ CTTC's Access Technologies Area (Graduated Sept. 2008)

Current Contact Info:

Skype: adelcoso

mail: aitordelcoso at gmail.com

Last update: Dec. 2009

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BIOGRAPHY

• Dec. 2009 - , McKinsey and Company, Madrid, Spain
• Oct. 2008 - Dec. 2009, researcher at Thales Alenia Space, Madrid, Spain.
  • Nov. 2008 - Sep. 2009, profesor asociado/associate professor at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
• Sep. 2008, Ph.D. on signal theory and communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
• Dec. 2004 - Sep. 2008, assistant researcher at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain [1].
  • Summer 2007, industry internship at Motorola Labs, Paris, France,
  • Spring 2006, visiting assistant researcher at the Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research [2], New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ,
  • Fall 2005, visiting assistant researcher at the Politecnico di Milano [3], Milano, Italy.
• Sep. 2003 - Nov. 2004, systems engineer at Indra Sistemas [4], Madrid, Spain
• Jul. 2003, M.Sc. degree telecommunications engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) [5], Madrid, Spain.

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RESEARCH LINES

• Multi-terminal Information Theory.

• Wireless cooperative communications.

• Convex optimization, MIMO channels and opportunistic communications.

• Space-Time processing for satellite communications

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PUBLICATIONS

• Ph.D. Dissertation

• Journals (9)

• Conferences (17)

• Invited Talks (2)

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

- Granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya PhD Fellowship Programs

- Nominated best student paper finalist at ICASSP 2007.

- IEEE Explore Top 100 Documents Accessed in Mar. 2007: Rank 69 and in Apr. 2007: Rank 93 for the paper: A. del Coso, U. Spagnolini, C. Ibars Cooperative distributed MIMO channels in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 25, no. 2, pp.402-414, Feb. 2007 pdf

- IEEE Explore Top 10 J-SAC Documents Accessed in Jun, Jul, Oct 2007 for the paper: A. del Coso, U. Spagnolini, C. Ibars Cooperative distributed MIMO channels in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 25, no. 2, pp.402-414, Feb. 2007

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STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

C.E. Shannon, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" ,Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423, 623-656, Jul., Oct., 1948.

S. Verdú, "Fifty Years of Shannon Theory", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 44, no 6, pp. 2057-2078, Oct., 1998

A. El Gamal and T. Cover, "Multiple User Information Theory", Proc. of the IEEE, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 1466-1483, Dec. 1980.

T.M. Cover and A. El Gamal, "Capacity Theorems for the Relay Channel" , IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 572-584, Sep. 1979.

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SYNERGY

• Completed Activities
  • Capacity region of multiple-access channels with multiple relays, in collaboration with Dr. Osvaldo Simeone .
  • Distributed cooperative techniques for wireless sensor networks, with Prof. Spagnolini at Polimi.
  • Cooperative multicast protocols for wireless networks, in collaboration with CCSPR-NJIT .
  • Fairness analysis of multiuser cooperative networks in collaboration with CTTC-Radio Technologies Area.

• Collaborators and Colleagues (in order of appearance)
  • Pr. U. Spagnolini [6] @ Polimi.
  • Pr. Y. Bar-ness [7] and Dr. O. Simeone [8] @ NJIT
  • Dr. Shuangquan Wang [9] @ Broadcom, NJ.
  • Sébastien Simoens [10] @ Motorola Labs Paris.
  • Thomas Watteyne [11] @ France Telecom RD, France