Management Board

Director:

Dr. Josep Solé Pareta Full Professor Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain E-mail:

Josep Solé-Pareta obtained his M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering in 1984, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1991, both from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). In 1984 he joined the Computer Architecture Department of UPC. Currently he is a full professor with this department. He did a postdoctoral stage (summers of 1993 and 1994) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is co-founder of the UPC-CCABA (http://www.ccaba.upc.edu/). His publications include several book chapters and more than 100 papers in relevant research journals (> 20), and refereed international conferences. His current research interests are in nanonetworking communications, traffic monitoring and analysis, and high-speed and optical networking, with emphasis on traffic engineering, traffic characterization, MAC protocols, and QoS provisioning. He has participated in many European projects dealing with computer networking topics.

Scientific Directors:

Dr. Eduard Alarcón Cot Associate Professor Department of Electronic Engineering Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain E-mail:

Eduard Alarcón(S'96, M'01), received M. Sc. (national award) and Ph.D. degrees in EE from UPC Barcelona, Spain, in 1995 and 2000, respectively, where he became Associate Professor in 2001, Associate Dean of International Affairs, School of Electrical Engineering, UPC, 2006-09, and visiting Professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (2003). He has coauthored more than 150 international scientific publications, 3 book chapters and 3 patents, and been involved in different national and US R&D projects. Research interests include the areas of mixed-signal integrated circuits, on-chip energy management circuits, wireless energy transfer and communications at the nanoscale. He has given 17 invited or plenary lectures and tutorials in Europe, America and Asia, and been elected IEEE CAS society distinguished lecturer. He is an elected member of the IEEE CAS Board of Governors (2010-2013), recipient of Best paper award at IEEEMWSCAS98, co-editor of 2 journals special issues, 3 conference special sessions, TPC co-chair and TPC member of 10l IEEE conferences, and Associate Editor for IEEE TCAS.

Dr. Albert Cabellos-Aparicio Assistant Professor Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain E-mail:

Albert Cabellos-Aparicio received a BSc (2001), MSc (2005) and PhD (2008) degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia ( http://www.upc.edu). In 2002 he joined the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA, http://www.ccaba.upc.edu) where he worked as research assistant. In 2004 he was awarded with a full scholarship to carry out PhD studies at the Department of Computer Architecture, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. In september 2005 he became an assistant professor of the Computer Architecture Department and as a researcher in the Broadband Communications Group (http://cba.upc.edu/). In 2010 he joined the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (http://www.n3cat.upc.edu). He is an editor of the Elsevier Journal on Nano Computer Network and member of the Project Management Committee of the LISPmob opensource initiative (http://lispmob.org). His main research interests are new architectures for the Internet and Nano-networks.