I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. My prior work experiences are, in reverse cronological order, working for Texas Instruments Inc. in the area of Wireless Infrastructure (WiMAX and LTE standards), and being a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland's Signals and Information Group. Also, back in my native Argentina, I worked for Lucent Technologies and AT&T as a Senior Instructor in telecommunications equipments (fiber optics and PBXs). My first work experience was as a developer of software for the NEC NEAX 61XS public rural area digital telephone switch.
As a researcher, I’m interested in the areas of Digital Signal Processing and Communications/Networking. As such, I have worked in many problems and topics that are at the intersection of these two areas, such as multimedia wireless communications, cross layer designs (especially joint source-channel coding and resource allocation), multiple access to wireless networks, user cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and speech and video processing for wireless communications. You can find a list of my publications (unfortunately too frequently out of date) in my Research page. Also, I have channelized my interest for DSP research and teaching into the creation of The Digital Signal Processing Blog
One of the reasons I'm at RIT is that I enjoy teaching. Prior to joining RIT, I have been lucky enough to have had plenty of opportinities to teach. In academia, I was a Teaching Assistant in seven courses of very varied nature, spanning undergraduate level, honors courses and graduate level courses, as well as encompassing the practical nature of laboratory courses to the theoretical nature of random processes and probability courses. In addition, I have more than three years of teaching experience in industry as a product instructor for Lucent Technologies in Argentina. In this position, I taught a variety of courses to Lucent’s employees and clients. Of all the courses, my favorite was the one on Lucent’s largest and most successful switch: the Definity PBX. This course was mostly my creation, since I doubled its length and wrote a new 200-pages course manual. Being the only one of its kind in Spanish, the course was eventually "exported" to other South American countries.
I hold a Ph.D. (2004) and M.Sc. (2000) degrees, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Maryland. My advisor troughout graduate school was Nariman Farvardin. I earned my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the "Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires" (ITBA) in December 1992.
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