Distinguished Lecturer Appointments

  • IEEE Communications Society, 2021–2023

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2021–present

 

Editorial Board Positions

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Editor, 2019–2023

  • IEEE Communications Letters, Editor, 2018–2022

 

Conference Organizing Committees

  • IEEE PIMRC 2024, Tutorials Co-Chair.

  • IEEE MeditCom 2024, Workshops Co-Chair.

  • IEEE WCNC 2024 Track on “Emerging Technologies, Network Architectures, and Applications”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE Globecom 2023 Wireless Communications Symposium, Lead Chair.

  • IEEE Globecom 2023 Workshop on “Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE Globecom 2022 Workshop on “Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE VTC Spring 2022 Track on “IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE ICC 2022 Wireless Communications Symposium, Technical Co-Chair.

  • IEEE ICC 2022 Workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • ​IEEE WCNC 2022 Industry Forum on “Non-terrestrial Networks in 5G and 6G”, Organizer.

  • IEEE Globecom 2021 Workshop on “Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications”, Co-Chair.

  • ​IEEE ICC 2021 Industry Forum on “IEEE 802.11be: Towards the Future Wi-Fi 7”, Co-Organizer.

  • IEEE ICC 2021 Workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE VTC Spring 2021 Track on “IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE PIMRC 2020 Workshop on “UAV communications for 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE ICC 2019 Workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, Co-Chair.

  • Asilomar 2018 Special Session on “UAV Cellular Communications in 5G”, Co-Chair.

  • IEEE PIMRC 2018 Workshop on “UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond”, Steering Committee Member.

  • IEEE Globecom 2017 Workshop on “Large-Scale Antenna Systems in Licensed and Unlicensed Bands”, Co-Chair.​

 

University Appointments

  • Head of the Telecommunications Engineering program, UPF Barcelona, 2020–2024.

 

Doctoral Committees

  • Henri Alam, “Load balancing in an integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial network”, First-year Ph.D. Defense, EURECOM, France, May 2023. 

  • Matteo Bernabè, “Enabling ultra-reliable drone cellular communications in 6G networks”, First-year Ph.D. Defense, EURECOM, France, Oct. 2022. 

  • Asad Mahmood, “Communication technologies for UAV-assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks”, First- and second-year Ph.D. Defense, University of Luxembourg, Jan. 2022 and Jan. 2023. 

  • Davide Scazzoli, “Design of a UAV based localization system for public safety networks”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Jan. 2021.

  • Sergio Barrachina, “Responsive spectrum management for wireless local area networks: From heuristic-based policies to model-free reinforcement learning”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, Jan. 2021.

  • M. Mahdi Azari, “UAVs integration into ground networks: Scenarios, modeling, and analysis”, Ph.D. Dissertation, KU Leuven, Belgium, Jul. 2019.