Summary Dr.Albert Anglès, from Spain holds a PhD in telecommunications, specialized in wireless propagation for low power wireless sensing technologies in real smart city applications (smart parking). His PhD was carried out at WorldSensing, S.L, a company that produces state-of-art smart city applications using custom sensor transmitting/receiving nodes. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the Signal Processing Communications and Navigation Group at UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona). During this time, he focused on testing and evaluating in field by means of several measurement campaigns the performance of wireless broadband technologies (IEEE 802.16-2004, known as fixed WiMAX), being considered as a solution for wireless last-mile Internet access in rural environments. Dr.Albert participated in configuring the WiMAX base station, stablishing quality of service priorities as well as testing different PHY modes (carriers, bandwidths and digital modulations). The project called as InterRural was funded by Spanish Industry ministry, under the grant PROFIT FIT-330210-2007-57. From 2009 to 2010 he was a member of the same research group. During that time, he carried research tasks focused on tracking and positioning techniques for traffic applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks. Additionally, he developed a tracking simulator under an urban environment and validated his tracking algorithm with an experimental campaign. The set of tasks included the programming of the nodes to send data to the on-board gateway (in C), the programming of the tracking algorithmg (in Java) and the simulation scripts for comparison purposes. This project called as XALOC (Sensor networks for managing public parking and location) was funded by European funds within the frame of INFOREGIO grant. Dr.Albert obtained the Master degree on Design of Telecommunication Systems in 2010, and his Master thesis was focused on the XALOC research. From 2010 to 2013, Dr.Albert was a full time researcher at R&D department of WorldSensing company as well as PhD industrial student in the same company. During that time he provided a mutual feedback between the research insights and industrial worlds, contributing to the know how of the company. His contribution and insights in RF systems was key to increase considerably the wireless range of the original product,taking into account the hazardous operation conditions of the system. Thus several measurement campaigns in the field were carried out to provide an empiric validation with real scenarios and environments. The conducted research was part of the PhD stage. The PhD was funded by AGAUR (Agencia de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) under the grant Talent Empresa TEM-DGR 2009. From 2013 to 2016 he was a PostDoc Fellow funded by the Chilean Education Ministryfoto with the grant FONDECYT 3140045, titled “Channel Models for Low-Power and Fixed Wireless Transmission Technologies”. This project was focused on wireless channel modelling of 60 GHz fixed wireless links. The research took into account typical installation settings, first for the next generation WiFI (IEEE 802.11ad, known as WiGig-Wireless Gigabit) and next for the next generation 5G cellular communications. Dr.Albert carried his research tasks at the Telecommunications engineering school of Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. Dr.Albert contributed in the elaboration of numerous measurement campaigns in the field, including the programming of scripts to acquire real time data, the construction and programming of position-controlled automated arms, the configuration of the transmitter and receiver nodes and the processing of the acquired data. From 2018 he is Software Validation Engineer by Intel within the Connected Home Division. Dr.Albert holds a conference, three ISI journals and one ISI journal in a 2nd round reviewing process. He also conducted a non-technical conference focused on industrial PhDs in Dublin in 2013, organized by the Irish Universities Association and funded by AGAUR. His motivation and research interests are mainly focused on the state-of-art wireless technologies: hardware and software design for testing purposes, testing and validation of equipments and technologies, antenas , wireless channel modelling and propagation, mmwave communications and embedded low power systems. |