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Alfonso Carlosena

Alfonso Carlosena was born in Navarra, Spain, in 1962. He received the M.Sc. degree with honors and the Ph.D. in physics in 1985 and 1989, respectively, both from the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

From 1986 to 1992 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Since October 1992, he has been an Associate Professor with the Public University of Navarra, where he has also served as Head of the Technology Transfer Office. In March 2000 he was promoted to Full Professor at the same University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) and the New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

Currently he is on sabbatical leave with the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. His current research interests are in the areas of analog circuits and signal processing, digital signal processing and instrumentation, where he has published over sixty papers in international journals and a similar number of conference presentations. He also holds four patents on the subject of coin validation mechanisms.



Giorgio Giannakis


G. B. Giannakis received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981.
From September 1982 to July 1986 he was with the University of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1986. After lecturing for one year at USC, he joined the University of Virginia in 1987, where he became a professor of Electrical Engineering in 1997. Since 1999 he has
been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he now holds
an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications.

His general interests span the areas of communications and signal processing, estimation and detection theory, time-series analysis, and system identification -- subjects on which he has published more than 200 journal papers, 350 conference papers and two edited books. Current research focuses on transmitter and receiver diversity techniques for single- and multi-user fading communication channels, complex-field and space-time coding, multicarrier, ultra-wide band wireless communication systems, cross-layer designs and sensor networks.

G. B. Giannakis is the (co-) recipient of six paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies
(1992, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004). He also received the SP Society's Technical Achievement Award in 2000. He served as Editor
in Chief for the IEEE SP Letters, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Signal Proc. and the IEEE SP Letters, as secretary of
the SP Conference Board, as member of the SP Publications Board, as member and vice-chair of the Statistical Signal and Array
Processing Technical Committee, as chair of the SP for Communications Technical Committee and as a member of the IEEE
Fellows Election Committee. He has also served as a member of the IEEE-SP Society's Board of Governors, the Editorial Board for the Proceedings of the IEEE} and the steering committee of the IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications.



Josep Pallarès


Josep Pallarès recibió el grado de licenciado en Ciencias Físicas por la Universidad de Barcelona, España, en 1991 y el grado de doctor en Ciencias Físicas por la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, España, en 1997. En octubre de 1991 se incorporó como profesor titular al Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Eléctrica y Automática de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, España, del que es director desde diciembre de 2000. El Dr. Pallarés realizó su tesis doctoral sobre el análisis de las corrientes de recombinación Shockley-Read-Hall en heterouniones abruptas con materiales no cristalinos. Actualmente sus actividades de investigación son la caracterización y modelización de dispositivos electrónicos avanzados y el estudio de los cristales fotónicos. El Dr. Pallarés es autor o coautor de más de 50 artículos en revistas y congresos internacionales sobre estos temas. Finalmente, es miembro del IEEE y preside el capítulo español de la Electron Device Society.



Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio

Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio (F'92) was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He received the degree in communications and electronic engineering (Professional degree) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, the M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University, CA, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, in 1966, 1970, and 1973, respectively.

In 1974 he held an industrial Post-Doctoral position with the Central Research Laboratories, Nippon Electric Company, Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan. From 1976 to 1983 he was the Head of the Department of Electronics at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, during the academic years of 1979-1980 and 1983-1984. He is currently the TI J Kilby Chair Professor and Director of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center at Texas A&M University. He was the General Chairman of the 1983 26th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, (1985-1987), and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He is co-author of the book Switched Capacitor Circuits (Van Nostrand-Reinhold 1984), and co-editor of the book “ Low Voltage/Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE Press 1999). In November 1995 he was awarded an Honoris Causa Doctorate by the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico. The first honorary degree awarded for Microelectronic Circuit Design contributions. He is co-recipient of the 1995 Guillemin-Cauer for his work on Cellular Networks. He is a former IEEE CAS Vice President-Publications. He was also the co-recipient of the 1997 Darlington Award for his work on high-frequency filters He received the Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 1999. He was the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Representative to the Solid-State Circuits Society (2000-2002). He is presently a member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Fellow Award Committee. His present interests are in the area of RF-Communication circuits and analog and mixed-mode circuit design. He is an IEEE Fellow Member since 1992. E-mail: e.sanchez@ieee.org, http://amesp02.tamu.edu/~sanchez.

Eduardo Trigo Frigerio

Formación académica:

  • Bachiller Boliviano (1967 - 1978) – Colegio La Salle – Tarija, BOLIVIA
  • Bachiller Americano (1978 - 1979) – Vista High School – California, U.S.A.
  • Licenciatura en Ingeniería Electrónica (1982 - 1988) – Universidad Autónoma de Puebla - Puebla, MEXICO - Graduado con Mención Honorífica
  • Maestría en Ciencias Aplicadas, Orientación: Telecomunicaciones (1995 -1997) – Universidad Católica de Lovaina –Lovaina-la-Nueva, BELGICA

Experiencia Profesional:

  • Encargado de Telefonía Rural de Tarija (1990 – 1995) – Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bolivia (ENTEL)
  • Gerente de Planificación (1997 – 1999) – Cooperativa de Servicios de Telecomunicaciones Tarija (COSETT Ltda.)
  • Gerente General (1999 – 2000) – COSETT Ltda.
  • Gerente de Planificación (2000 – 2003) – COSETT Ltda.
  • Gerente General de la Cámara de Telecomunicaciones de Bolivia –CATELBO (Mayo 2003 - )

Otras funciones desempeñadas:

  • Secretario General de la Sociedad de Ingenieros de Bolivia (1999 – 2001) – SIB Departamental Tarija
  • Vicepresidente de la Federación Departamental de Profesionales de Tarija (2000 – 2002)
  • Miembro Fundador del Capitulo de Comunicaciones del IEEE Sección Bolivia (2002 - )
  • Presidente del Colegio de Ingenieros Electricistas y Electrónicos de Tarija (2002 -2003)
  • Docente de la Carrera de Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Católica de Bolivia – Unidad Tarija (2002 - 2003)
  • Miembro del Comité Revisor de la Revista de Ingeniería Eléctrica del IEEE América Latina (2003 - )

Afiliaciones Profesionales:

  • Miembro de la Sociedad de Ingenieros de Bolivia (1989 - )
  • Senior Member del IEEE (2003); Member (1996); Associate Member (1988); Student (1986)
  • Miembro del IEEE Communications Society (1988 - )