Professor of Telecommunications, School of Engineering, University of Padova / CNIT

Michele Zorzi was born in 1966, and has been a Professor of Telecommunications at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova since 2003. He received the Laurea Degree and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-1996), a Research Scientist at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of California at San Diego (1995-1998), and an Associate Professor (1998-2000) and then Professor (2000-2003) at the University of Ferrara.

He has many international contacts and collaborations, and has been PI or co-PI of numerous research projects, both in Europe and in the US, as well as more than 20 other projects funded by different funding agencies and industrial companies.

His research is focused on the field of wireless communications and networking, and has resulted in more than 600 papers in refereed journals and international conferences (see Google Scholar). He received several best paper awards for his activities, including the prestigious IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008 and IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award in 2018, and has been invited several time as a keynote speaker or a panelist. He is coauthor of four patents and is co-founder of two start-up companies, one of which was successfully acquired.

Since 1998 he has supervised more that 35 PhD students and post-docs. Students who graduated under his supervision have held or have been offered faculty/post-doc/staff positions at institutions/companies including the following: Stanford, USC, UCSD, University of Padova, University of Pisa, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Rohde-Schwartz, CTTC (Barcelona), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, UCLA, Qualcomm R&D, KTH, UC Irvine, Purdue, Huawei, u-blox.