Biography
Paolo Casari is associate professor at the University of Trento, Italy. He received the PhD in Information Engineering in 2008 from the University of Padova, Italy. He was on leave at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, working on underwater communications and networks. He collaborated to several funded projects including EU FP7 and H2020 efforts, EDA projects, as well as US ARO, ONR and NSF initiatives, and is currently the PI of the NATO SPS project SAFE-UComm. In 2015, he joined the IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain, where he led the Ubiquitous Wireless Networks group. Prof. Casari is currently on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing for two terms, and regularly serves in the organizing committee of several international conferences. He is or has been guest-editing three special issues for IEEE Access, Elsevier Computer Communications, and Elsevier Computer Networks. He received two best paper awards. His research interests include diverse aspects of networked communications and computing, such as channel modeling, network protocol design, localization, resource allocation, simulation, and experimental evaluation.