Giovanni Geraci is a Principal Research Scientist at Telefonica. He is also a tenured Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he served as the Head of Telecommunications Engineering. He was previously with Nokia Bell Labs and holds a dozen patents on wireless technologies. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and has delivered nearly 100 tutorials, keynotes, and lectures at renowned conferences and institutions. He also served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters, and as the Chair of around 20 top-tier IEEE symposia and workshops. For his contributions to wireless communications, he received the IEEE Communications Theory Early Achievement Award (2023), the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (2018), and Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom (2022) and PIMRC (2019).

 

Current Positions

 

Previous Positions

  • Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland
    Research Scientist (20162018)

  • Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
    Postdoctoral Fellow (20142015)
    Advisor: Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek

  • The University of Texas at Austin, United States
    Visiting Researcher (2013)
    Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey G. Andrews

  • Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    Visiting Researcher (2012)
    Advisor: Prof. Mérouane Debbah

  • Alcatel-Lucent, Vimercate, Italy
    Research Intern (2009)

 

Education