Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa
Position: Professor
Office: D5-108
Email: javier.fonollosa
upc.es
Telephone: + 34 93 401 58 96
Fax: + 34 93 401 64 47
Web site: https://spcom.upc.edu/en/people/javier-rodriguez-fonollosa
Current Students: Jordi Pérez Guijarro and Juan Francisco Martín Bravo.
Former Students: Andreu Blasco Coll, Farzin Salek, Jaume Del Olmo Alos, Italo Atzeni, Adriano Pastore, Luis G. Ordóñez, Eduard Calvo, Héctor Carrasco, Xavier Mestre, Carles Antón-Haro.
Biography
Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa received the telecommunication engineering degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in December 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in June 1993.
In 1989 he held a visiting appointment at the European Space Agency Centre in The Netherlands. From the Fall of 1989 until 1992 he was Research Assistant at Northeastern University, Boston, MA and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, where, upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, he became Research Associate. In 1993 he joined the department of Signal Theory and Communications of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he became Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2003.
In 1995 he led UPC's participation in the European Commission funded ACTS Mobile projects TSUNAMI (II) and SUNBEAM that included the analysis of adaptive antennas in 2on and 3rd generation cellular mobile communication systems. Since January 2000 until 2003 he was technical and project coordinator of the IST projects METRA and I-METRA dedicated to the introduction of multi-antenna terminals in UMTS and Systems beyond 3G. Since January 2006 to December 2008 he coordinated the Sixth Framework Programme IST project SURFACE which evaluated the performance of a generalized air interface with self-configuration capabilities. In November 2006 he initiated the coordination of the 5 year Type C-Consolider project Fundamental bounds in Network Information Theory of the National Research Plan of Spain.
Since December 2008 to December 2014 he was the Coordinator of the CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks (COMONSENS), a 6 year € 3.5 Million effort of 135 researchers belonging to 10 universities and research centers in Spain. The project continued under his coordination as a CONSOLIDER Network of Excellence first, for three years starting December 2015, and as a Research Network, starting January 2020 until December 2022, under the name Red COMONSENS.
Since December 2016 to September 2020 he coordinated the TEC2016 project “Coding and Signal Processing for Emerging Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (CARMEN)” project funded by the Spanish Government. This was a € 0.6 Million project participated by four universities in Spain. This project was followed since June 2020 by the PID2019 project C41 “Advances in coding and signal processing for the digital society (ADELE))” first, and by the PID2022 project C41 "Enabling communication, coding and processing technologies for next-generation classical-quantum networks (MADDIE)" later, both coordinated from UPC, in which Javier R. Fonollosa acts as co-IP of UPC’s subproject. Since January 2018 until June 2022 we led UPC’s participation in the QuantumCAT project, coordinated from ICFO, which provided € 4 Million funding to the Catalan Quantum entrepreneurial ecosystem, and which led to the development of a new interuniversity Master Program on Quantum Science and Technology. Javier R. Fonollosa is responsible for the Quantum Information Theory mandatory subject of the program.
He was a panelist in the NSF evaluation committee of Wireless Information Technology and Networking and on a regular basis for the European Commission in the evaluation of proposals and verification of projects in the Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme. In June 2008 he participated in the KTH International Research Assessment Exercise 2008. He also participated in the Research Evaluation of Aalto University and in the priority program "Communications in Interference Limited Networks" of the German Research Foundation in June 2009. During the month of April 2016 he held a visiting professor appointment at the University of British Columbia hosted by Prof. Julian Cheng.
He was department head of the Signal Theory and Communications department of UPC from October 2006 to January 2010. In 2009 he coordinated the ERASMUS MUNDUS 2009-2013 Master of Science in Research on Information and Communication Technologies (MERIT) EMMC Joint Master Program proposal.
Since May 2005 he is member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal. In June 1995 and September 2001 he was co-chairman and organizer of the IEEE Signal Processing/ATHOS Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics held in Begur, Girona, Spain and of the IST Mobile Communications Summit 2001 held in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. He was elected IEEE Senior Member and member of the Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in February 1998 and January 1999 respectively.
Since February 2010 until July 2014 he was manager of the Communications and Electronic Technologies (TEC) area of the National Research Plan of Spain of MINECO. Since August 2018 he is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CITIC of Universidade da Coruña. Since March 2023 he acts as expert for the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Finally, starting December 2023 he is chairman of the Research Evaluation Committee of the Engineering and Architecture area of the Catalan University Quality Agency (AQU Catalunya).
Javier R. Fonollosa public profile at Google Scholar
Web of Science Researcher ID F-8242-2013
ORCID ID 0000-0002-0136-2586
SCOPUS ID: 7007085739
More information: http://futur.upc.edu/JavierRodriguezFonollosa
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