CURRICULUM VITAE
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`Name
`Albert
`GUILL ´EN i F `ABREGAS
`Lastname
`Place and date of birth Barcelona, Spain, 27 November 1974
`Current Position
`Associate Professor, University of Cambridge
`Researcher (part-time), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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`CONTACT
`Work Department of Engineering
`University of Cambridge
`Trumpington Street
`CB2 1PZ Cambridge, UK
`e-mail: albert.guillen@eng.cam.ac.uk, guillen@ieee.org
`Tel: +44 1223 768447
`skype: albert guillen
`http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/˜ag495
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`EDUCATION
`2001- 2004
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`´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
`Ph.D. with thesis entitled “Concatenated Codes for Block-Fading Channels”
`research performed at Institut Eur´ecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
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`1993-1999
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`1997-1999
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`1998-1999
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`1988-1992
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`Defense comittee: Prof. Giuseppe Caire (advisor), Prof. Joseph Boutros,
`Prof. Raymond Knopp, Prof. Giorgio Taricco, Prof. Emre Telatar, Prof. R¨udiger Urbanke
`Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
`Degree in Telecommunication Engineering with Speciality in Communications
`Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
`Degree in Electronics Engineering
`New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
`Final Research Project entitled “Adaptive Equalization Schemes for TDMA Mobile Systems”
`under the supervision of Prof. Yeheskel Bar-Ness. Grade: A with Honors
`Escola Sant Gregori, Barcelona, Spain
`High School Degree and International Baccalaureate in Mathematics
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`Oct 2012 - Sep 2020
`Oct 2011 - Sep 2012
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`Jan 2007 - Oct 2011
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`EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
`Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
`Oct 2020 -
`Researcher, (non-permanent, part-time) Universitat Pompeu Fabra
`Oct 2021 -
`ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (currently on leave)
`Aug 2011 - Sep 2021
`Interim Deputy Head of Department for Recruitment (Jan–Nov 2018)
`Director of Research (non-permanent, part-time), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
`Reader at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
`Fellow of Trinity Hall
`Lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
`Fellow of Trinity Hall
`Sep 2004 - Nov 2006 Research Fellow at the Institute for Telecommunications Research,
`University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
`Research and Teaching Assistant at Mobile Communications Department,
`Institut Eur´ecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
`Sep 2000 - May 2001 Research Assistant at European Space Research and Technology Centre,
`European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
`Nov 1999 - Jun 2000 Research Assistant at Telecom Italia Research Labs, Torino, Italy
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`May 2001 - Jul 2004
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`VISITING APPOINTMENTS
`April 2017
`University of Brescia
`June 2014
`Princeton University
`Sept 2010
`Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
`Jun - Jul 2010
`University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
`May 2010
`Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
`Jul 2009
`Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
`Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
`Sept 2008
`Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
`´Ecole Nationale Superieure des T´el´ecommunications, Paris, France
`Jun 2005, Jun 2006
`´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
`Oct 2003 - Jul 2004
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`2012-
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`RESEARCH FUNDING
`Principal investigator on grants of total value e4,200,000. Co-investigator in 3 grants of total value e500,000. One of the lead
`investigators in department grant e2,000,000.
`2021-2024 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, National Plan for Science and Research. Coordinated
`project with Universidad Carlos III Madrid “Generalized and refined asymptotics in finite-blocklength
`information theory” Amount: e47,795. Role: Researcher.
`2018-2021 Catalan Government, Pre-Consolidated Research Group competitive funding. Amount: e27,000. Role: PI.
`2017-2023 European Commission, European Research Council, ERC Consolidator Grant, FP7, “Information Theory
`with Uncertain Laws”, Role: PI. Amount: e1,888,033
`2017-2019 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, National Plan for Science and Research.
`Coordinated project with Universidad Carlos III Madrid and Universidad de Sevilla “Finite-length iterative decoding:
`fundamental limits, practical constructions and inference”, Role: PI. Amount: e78,000 + 1 PhD studentship.
`2016-2019 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Maria de Maeztu Program for Research
`Center Excellence, Department Funding. Role: Guarantor Researcher. Amount: e2,000,000.
`2014-2016 Catalan Government, Emerging Research Group competitive funding. Amount: e20,000. Role: PI.
`2013-2015 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, National Plan for Science and Research.
`Coordinated project with Universidad Carlos III Madrid and Universidad de Sevilla “Advances in Statistical
`Learning, Communications and Information Theory”, Role: PI. Amount: e100,500 + 1 PhD studentship.
`European Science Foundation, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action
`in Optical Wireless Communications. Role: Partner.
`2012-2014 European Commission, FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship (Dr Alex Alvarado),
`“Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation: Fundamental Understandings”, Role: Academic Host. Amount: e193,000.
`2011-2013 Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Newton International Fellowships (Dr Alex Alvarado),
`“Fundamental Limits of Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation”. Role: academic host. Amount: £66,000.
`2011-2016 European Commission, European Research Council, ERC Starting Grant, FP7, “Finite-Length
`Information Theory”, Role: PI. Amount: e1,303,606 .
`2010-2012 European Commission, FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship (Dr Tobias Koch),
`“Communication in Integrated Circuits”, Role: Academic Host. Amount: e165,000.
`Isaac Newton Trust, “Information Role Models in Cooperative Wireless Communications”,
`Role: Principal Investigator. Amount: £40,000. Co-I: Dr Jossy Sayir.
`2009-2011 European Commission, FP7 Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications (NEWCOM ++),
`Role: Principal Investigator. Amount: £56,000. Co-I: Dr Jossy Sayir. Only partner in the UK.
`2009-2011 European Commission, FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship (Dr Jossy Sayir),
`“Information Role Models with Applications”, Role: Academic Host. Amount: e240,000
`2009-2011 Royal Society, Joint International Project 2009-2011, “Achievable Information Rates of Bit-Interleaved
`Coded Modulation”. Role: PI. Amount: £12,000. Co-I: Dr Alfonso Martinez.
`2009-2011 Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund, Cisco Systems, “Channel Coding for High-Speed Hybrid Free-
`Space Optical and Radio Frequency Communications”. Role: Co-I. Amount: £115,000. PI: Dr Nick Letzepis.
`2008-2010 Australian Research Council, Discovery Project “Adaptive Broadband Wireless Communication”.
`Role: Co-I. Amount: £220,000. PI: Prof Lars Rasmussen.
`Royal Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Visiting Fellowships for Prof Ezio Biglieri. Amount: £5,000
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`2009-2011
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`2007
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`2006-2008 Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Research Project “High Performance Broadband Wireless
`Communications Systems”. Role: Co-I. Amount: e60,000. PI: Prof Ezio Biglieri.
`2006-2008 Australian Government, Department of Education, Science and Training, French-Australian Science
`and Technology Program: ”Advanced Concepts for Future Broadband Wireless Networks”.
`Role: PI, Amount: £10,000
`University of South Australia, Australian Competitive Grant Developing Scheme, Early Career
`Researcher Program ”Coding for Wireless Broadband Mobile Networks”, Role: PI. Amount: £10,000.
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`2005
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`INDUSTRY PROJECTS
`Mar 2005
`“Coding-diversity tradeoffs in non-coherent communications”, contract for Auspace
`and Astrium. Institution: University of South Australia. Role: Research Fellow.
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`INVITED SESSION ORGANIZER
`Nov 2019 Asilomar Conference on on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA
`Mar 2018
`52nd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University
`2016 International Z¨urich Seminar on Communications, ETH Z¨urich
`Feb 2016
`Mar 2012
`46th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University
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`INVITED TALKS
`Jan 2023
`Information Theory Workshop at Universidad Carlos III Madrid (invitation only, expenses covered)
`Oct 2022
`8th Iberian Mathematical Meeting, Sevilla, Spain
`Apr 2020 Workshop in honor of Andrew Viterbi, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (postponed)
`Feb 2020
`2020 DLR-MIT-TUM Workshop on Coding and Random Access, Munich, Germany
`Dec 2019 Huawei Mathematics Research Centre Paris (expenses covered)
`Nov 2019
`Imperial College London
`Oct 2019 Workshop on Mathematical Data Science, D¨urnstein, Austria (invitation only event)
`Sept 2019 Mathematical Modeling for Science and Engineering, Naples (invitation only event)
`Feb 2019
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`Dec 2018
`ICSEE 2018, Eilat, Israel
`Dec 2018
`Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (expenses covered)
`Oct 2018
`Kings College London
`Jan 2018
`School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
`Nov 2017 NSF Workshop on finite-length information theory, MIT (invitation only event, expenses covered)
`Apr 2017
`University of Brescia, Italy
`Feb 2017
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`Nov 2016
`ICSEE 2016 Symposium on Information Theory, Eilat, Israel (13 invited speakers, expenses covered)
`Feb 2016
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`Nov 2015 Recent Advances in Network Information Theory and Coding Theory
`Journ´ee GDR-CNRS, Lyon, France (keynote, expenses covered)
`Imperial College, London
`Nov 2015
`Supelec, Paris
`Nov 2015
`July 2015 Munich Workshop on Coding and Modulation, Technical University of Munich (invitation only, expenses covered)
`July 2015
`Beyond iid Workshop, Banff International Research Station (expenses covered)
`May 2015 Technical University of Munich, Germany
`Nov 2014
`Joint Workshop on Coding and Communications, Barcelona (invitation only event)
`July 2014
`International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
`May 2014 Beyond iid Workshop, National University of Singapore (expenses covered)
`Feb 2014
`International Workshop on Frontiers of Telecommunications and Coding at University of
`California, Los Angeles (invitation only event)
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`(poster) Frontiers of Engineering, US National Academy of Engineering and Euro-CASE,
`Chantilly, France (invitation only, expenses covered)
`Imperial College, London
`Applied Mathematics Department, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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`May 2013
`Apr 2013
`Feb 2013
`Feb 2013
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`Feb 2014
`Nov 2013
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`Jan 2013
`Oct 2012
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`Comonsens Consolider Project, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
`50th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing organized by
`University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
`Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
`Jan 2012
`Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
`Dec 2011
`Dec 2011 Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona
`Feb 2011
`University of Southern California, Los Angeles
`Feb 2011
`Information Theory and Applications Workshop at University of California, San Diego (invitation only event)
`Jan 2011
`Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden (expenses covered)
`Dec 2009 Monash University, Australia (expenses covered)
`Nov 2009 Communication and Information Theory Workshop at Technical University
`of Munich, Germany (invitation only, expenses covered)
`Sept 2009 University of Surrey, Guildford (expenses covered)
`Apr 2009
`Estimation Theory and Information Theory Workshop at Princeton University (invitation only, expenses covered)
`Nov 2008 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (expenses covered)
`Jul 2008
`Cambridge Networks and Communications Meeting, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
`Jun 2007
`Imperial College London, London (expenses covered)
`May 2007 Computer Lab, Cambridge
`Jan 2006
`Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Perth, Australia
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`2009
`2006
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`2006
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`2017
`2013
`2012
`2011
`2010
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`HONORS AND AWARDS
`Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
`2022
`Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for contributions
`2022
`to the analysis and design of wireless communication systems
`ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council
`Member of the Young Academy of Europe
`Accredited Full Professor by the Catalan University System Quality Agency
`ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council
`ICREA Senior Research Professorship (permanent research-only full professorship) by the Instituci´o
`Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Catalan Government
`Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
`Ram ´on y Cajal Research Fellowship (5 years fellowship and project support), by the Spanish Ministry
`of Education and Science. Ranked 1st in Communications and Electronics Technologies (declined)
`ICREA Junior Research Fellowship (5 years fellowship and project support), by the Instituci´o Catalana
`de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Catalan Government (declined)
`Accredited Lecturer by the Catalan University System Quality Agency
`Nokia Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Mobile Internet and 3rd Generation
`Mobile Solutions of the Spanish Institution of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT)
`Young Authors Award of the European Signal Processing Conference, Vienna, Austria, Sept 2004
`2004
`Research Fellowship from Institut Eur´ecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
`2001
`2000-2001 Research Fellowship (Spanish Trainee) of the Spanish Ministry
`of Science and Technology for a research appointment at ESA
`1997-1999 Research Scholarship from the New Jersey Institute of Technology
`and Nokia Research, for the realization of the Final Research Project
`1997-1999 Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship from the European Union: Double Degree in
`Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering, UPC and Politecnico di Torino
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`2005
`2004
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`TEACHING EXPERIENCE
`2020- University of Cambridge
`Communications (IB Paper 6), 2nd Year Undergraduate Course (2021-2022)
`Data Transmission, 3rd Year Undergraduate Course (2021-)
`Data Transmission, Lab Leader, 3rd Year Undergraduate Course (2021-2022)
`Advanced Information Theory and Coding, 4th Year Module (2020-)
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`2012-2022 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
`Information Theory and Coding, 2nd Year Undergraduate Course
`Data Transmission and Coding, 2nd Year Undergraduate Course
`Information Theory, Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics, Graduate Course
`Digital Communication Theory, Graduate Course
`Advanced Wireless Communications, Graduate Course
`co-organizer, Emerging Scientists Workshop (for 1st year graduate students)
`2007-2012 University of Cambridge
`Communications (IB Paper 6), 2nd Year Undergraduate Course
`Advanced Wireless Communications (4F5), 4th Year Module
`Data Transmission, Lab Leader, 3rd Year Course
`Supervisor at Trinity Hall 2nd Year Course (IB Paper 6) covering the basics of control,
`signal processing and communications
`2005-2006 Lecturer Assistant at the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia of the
`Masters course Modern Communications Systems. Lectures: Optimal detection in Gaussian channels,
`channel capacity and channel codes. Tutorials: source/channel coding, information theory, modulation, detection.
`2001-2003 Teaching Assistant Institut Eur´ecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France, of the following courses: Introduction
`to Digital Communications and Introduction to Channel Coding Theory, Computer lab sessions on numerical
`simulation and analysis of digital modulations, convolutional codes and Viterbi decoding.
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`Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
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`Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
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`DOCTORAL STUDENT SUPERVISION
`Parham Boroumand, PhD student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
`Topic: Mismatched Hypothesis Testing and Classification.
`Dr Ehsan Asadi, PhD student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Upper Bounds to the Mismatch Capacity.
`Dr Mahed Abroshan, PhD student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Coding for Insertion and Deletion Channels.
`Sep 2015 - Sep 2019 Dr Arezou Rezazadeh, PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Error Exponents of Multiple-Access with Correlated Sources.
`Oct 2011 - Sep 2014 Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Mismatched decoding.
`Oct 2010 - Aug 2015 Dr Jing Guo, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Polar Coding.
`Oct 2008 - Feb 2013 Dr Li Peng, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Fundamentals of Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation and Reliable Source Transmission.
`Oct 2008 - Feb 2012 Dr Taufiq Asyhari, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Nearest neighbour decoding for fading channels.
`Dr Adri`a Tauste Campo, Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Topics on multiuser detection and joint source-channel coding.
`Feb 2006 - Dec 2009 Dr Khoa Nguyen, Ph.D. student at University of South Australia. Role: co-supervisor.
`Topic: Adaptive transmission in block-fading channels. Thesis accepted forthwith without corrections;
`received 2010 Michael Miller Medal.
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`Jan 2008 - Feb 2011
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`Jan 2021 -
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`Jul 2019 -
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`Jan 2018-
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`POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH SUPERVISION
`Francesc Molina, postdoc at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Nov 2022 -
`Topic: Zero-rate reliable transmission.
`Dr Lan Truong, postdoc at University of Cambridge. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Random Coding Concentration in Information Theory.
`Dr Giuseppe Cocco, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Information Theory with Uncertain Laws.
`Dr Mehdi Dabirnia, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Information Theory with Uncertain Laws.
`Nov 2014 - Dec 2015 Dr Mehdi Molkaraie, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Computational Finite-length Information Theory.
`Dr Josep Font-Segura, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Finite-length Information Theory.
`Oct 2011 - Sept 2014 Dr Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Finite-length Information Theory.
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`Oct 2014 -
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`Mar 2012 - Aug 2013 Dr Adri`a Tauste Campo, postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Role: supervisor.
`Topic: Finite-length Information Theory.
`Mar 2011 - Apr 2014 Dr Alex Alvarado, Newton International and Marie Curie Fellow at University of Cambridge.
`Role: academic host. Topic: Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation.
`Nov 2010 - Oct 2011 Dr Alfonso Martinez, Research Fellow at University of Cambridge. Role: academic host.
`Topic: Random Coding Bounds.
`Jun 2010 - May 2012 Dr Tobias Koch, Marie Curie Fellow at University of Cambridge. Role: academic host.
`Topic: Communication in Integrated Circuits.
`Jun 2009 - May 2011 Dr Jossy Sayir, Marie Curie Fellow at University of Cambridge. Role: academic host.
`Topic: Information role models with applications.
`Dr Gottfried Lechner, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of South Australia. Role: co-supervisor.
`Topic: Coding in fading channels.
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`Oct 2008 - Jun 2010
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`PREDOCTORAL RESEARCH SUPERVISION
`Feb - Apr 2020 Marco Bondaschi, research undergraduate student, Role: supervisor. Topic: Zero-rate reliability.
`Feb - Nov 2006 Allen Chuang, MSc. student at University of Sydney. Role: co-supervisor.
`Topic: Information-Theoretic tradeoffs of ARQ fading channels.
`Sept - Dec 2005 Qi Tang, Final Research Project (6 months), LDPC codes in block-fading channels. Role: supervisor.
`Alessandro Rossi, Final Research Project (6 months) Topic: Iterative decoding of space-time codes.
`2003
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`GRADUATE EXAMINATION
`Kuan Hsieh, PhD, University of Cambridge
`Apr 2021
`Pierre Escamilla, PhD, Telecom ParisTech
`Dec 2019
`Sept 2019 David Kibloff, PhD, INSA & Universit´e de Lyon
`Dec 2018 Giulia Cervia, PhD, Universit´e Cergy Portoise
`May 2018 Lin Zhou, PhD, National Univeristy of Singapore
`Eli Haim, PhD, Tel-Aviv Univeristy
`Apr 2018
`Dec 2017 Adam Grieg, PhD, University of Cambridge
`Dec 2016 Chao He, PhD, Sup´elec, France
`Aug 2015 Wei Yang, PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
`Sep 2014 Mine Alsan, PhD, Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, Switzerland
`Adriano Pastore, PhD, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
`Jun 2014
`Jorge Plata Chaves, PhD, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
`Jun 2012
`David Morales Jimenez, PhD, Universidad de M´alaga, Spain
`Apr 2011
`Pablo Mart´ınez Olmos, PhD, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
`Mar 2011
`Lotfollah Beygi, Licentiate Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
`Jan 2011
`Javier L ´opez, PhD, Universidad de M´alaga, Spain
`Dec 2010
`Adam Backer, MPhil, University of Cambridge
`Jul 2009
`May 2009 Symeon Chatzinotas, PhD, University of Surrey
`Francisco Javier V´azquez Ara ´ujo, PhD, Universidad de A Coru˜na, Spain
`Nov 2008
`Jaime Adeane, PhD, University of Cambridge
`Apr 2007
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`OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
`Editorships: Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishers, May 2012 - ; IEEE Trans-
`actions on Information Theory, February 2013–2020; IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2007–2011.
`General co-chair: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain.
`Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair: 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taiwan;
`2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Sevilla, Spain.
`Technical Program Committee (TPC) member: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (2012, 2013,
`2018, 2019, 2020, 2021); International Z¨urich Seminar on Information and Communication (2018, 2020, 2022); IEEE Infor-
`mation Theory Workshop (2009, 2010, 2015); International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Processing (2012, 2014,
`2020, 2023); European Signal Processing Conference (2012); IEEE International Conference on Communications (2009, 2010,
`2011); International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (2010); IEEE International Conference on Telecommu-
`nications (2010); IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (2005, 2007, 2008); IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking
`Conference (2008).
`Technical Session Chair: Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego (2017, 2013); IEEE International
`Symposium on Information Theory (2017, 2012, 2011, 2009); IEEE Information Theory Workshop (2016, 2009).
`Invited Session Organizer: 46th, 52nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University; 2016
`International Z¨urich Seminar, ETHZ; 2019 Asilomar Conference on on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
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`Other Event Organization: 2023 European School of Information Theory, Bristol (steering committee); 2016 and 2017 Be-
`yond iid in Information Theory Workshop; International Workshop on Frontiers of Telecommunications and Coding, February
`2014, University of California, Los Angeles; Recent results session organizer at the 2005 International Symposium on Informa-
`tion Theory, Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 2005; Main organizer of the ACoRN 2005 Spring School on Coding and Information
`Theory, Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 2005; Main organizer of the Benelux Chapter of the Information Theory Society Seminar
`Series on Communications and Information Theory at ESA/ESTEC, 2000-2001.
`Committee Work: Elected member IEEE Information Theory Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (2024-2027) and Confer-
`ence Committee (2016-2018); Full Professor Promotion Committee, Search Committee (2011-2021), Department of Information
`and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; IT and Employment Committees, Trinity Hall.
`Reviewing (Journals): IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory; IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.; IEEE Trans. Commun.; IEEE Journal on
`Selected Areas on Communications; IEEE Communications Letters; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal
`on Applied Signal Processing.
`Reviewing (Conferences): IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT); IEEE Information Theory Work-
`shop; IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC); IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom),
`Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wire-
`less and Mobile Systems; Australian Communications Theory Workshop; International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and
`Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (WSA&SCC)
`Reviewing (Book Proposals): Cambridge University Press, John Wiley and Sons, Springer.
`Reviewing (Project Proposals): European Research Council (ERC); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
`(EPSRC), UK; Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Austrian Science Fund (FWF),
`Austria; Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar; Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants.
`Membership: Fellow IEEE (Information Theory and Communications Societies), Fellow Institute of Mathematics and its
`Applications (IMA), Member Young Academy of Europe, Member Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics, (past) Junior
`Member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
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`LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
`Catalan and Spanish, native
`Engilsh, fluent
`Italian, fluent
`French, fluent
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`OTHER ACTIVITIES AND HOBBIES
`1996-1998 Member of Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) UPC, Barcelona
`1996
`Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, Board of European
`Students of Technology (BEST) Summer Course. Topic: “Applied Optics”.
`St. Quirze Tennis Center, Tennis School Coordinator
`1996-1997
`Tennis Instructor Degree at the Federaci´o Catalana de Tennis, Barcelona
`1995
`1990-1997 Tennis coach
`Hobbies
`Competition tennis, guitar playing, cooking, hiking
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`PUBLICATIONS
`More than 200 authored and co-authored articles, including 1 patent, 2 books, 2 book chapters, 1 edited volume, 57 journal
`articles, 15 invited and 113 regular articles in refereed conference proceedings and 9 technical reports. All publications available
`on my homepage http://www.dtic.upf.edu/˜aguillen.
`Patents
`[P1] R. De Gaudenzi, A. Guill´en i F`abregas, A. Martinez and B. Ponticelli, “Coded Modulation Method for Communication
`System,” United States Patent n. US 2003-0223507-A1, Dec. 4, 2003. Owned by ESA and used in the standard DVB-S2.
`Books
`[B2] J. Scarlett, A. Guill´en i F`abregas, A. Somekh-Baruch and A. Martinez, “Information-Theoretic Foundations of Mis-
`matched Decoding”, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, NOW Publishers, vol. 17, no. 2-3, pp
`149-400, 2020.
`[B1] A. Guill´en i F`abregas, A. Martinez, G. Caire, “Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation”, Foundations and Trends in Commu-
`nications and Information Theory, NOW Publishers, vol. 5, no. 1-2, pp. 1-153, 2008.
`Invited Book Chapters
`[BC2] A. Guill´en i F`abregas and N. Letzepis, “Hybrid Free-Space Optical and Radio-Fequency Wireless Communications”,
`in Optical Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2012, S. Arnon, J. R. Barry, G. K. Karagiannidis, R. Schober,
`M. Uysal Eds. ISBN 9780521197878
`[BC1] K. P. Liolis, R. De Gaudenzi, N. Alagha, A. Martinez, and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Amplitude Phase Shift Keying
`Constellation Design and its Applications to Satellite Digital Video Broadcasting”, in “Digital Video”, IN-TECH, ISBN 978-3-
`902613-44-8.
`Edited Volumes
`[EV1] Proceedings 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, IEEE Press, Edited by A. Guill´en i F`abregas, M. Honig and
`A. Orlitsky, September 2013. ISBN 978-1-4799-1323-7.
`Preprints
`[P4] L. V. Truong and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Generalized Random Gilbert-Varshamov Codes: Typical Error Exponent and
`Concentration Properties,” submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, November 2022.
`[P3] P. Boroumand and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Universal Neyman-Pearson Classification with a Known Hypothesis” submit-
`ted to Information and Inference, a Journal of the IMA, June 2022.
`[P2] L. V. Truong, G. Cocco, J. Font-Segura and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Concentration Properties of Random Codes,”
`submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2022.
`[P1] E. Asadi Kangarshahi and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Minimum Probability of Error of List Multiple Hypothesis Testing”,
`submitted to Information and Inference, a Journal of the IMA, October 2021. Revised November 2022.
`Journal Articles
`[J57] E. Asadi Kangarshahi and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “A Sphere Packing Bound for Mismatched Decoding”, to appear IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.
`[J56] G. Cocco, A. Guill´en i F`abregas and J. Font-Segura, “Typical Error Exponents: A Dual Domain Derivation,” to appear
`IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.
`[J55] P. Boroumand and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Mismatched Binary Hypothesis Testing: Error Exponent Sensitivity,” IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no.10, pp. 6738-6761, October 2022.
`[J54] M. Bondaschi, A. Guill´en i F`abregas and M. Dalai, “Zero-rate Reliability Function for Mismatched Decoding,” IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 1482-1495, March 2022.
`[J53] M. Dabirnia, A. Martinez and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “A Recursive Quantizer Design Algorithm for Binary-Input
`Discrete Memoryless Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 5069-5078, August 2021.
`[J52] M. Abroshan, R. Venkataramanan and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Multilayer Codes for Synchronization from Deletions
`and Insertions”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue in Memory of Vladimir Levenshtein, vol. 67, no. 6,
`pp. 3342-3359, June 2021.
`[J51] A. Rezazadeh, J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez, and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Multi-class cost-constrained random coding for
`correlated sources over the multiple-access channel,” Entropy, Special Issue on Finite-Length Information Theory, vol. 23, no.
`5, p. 569, May 2021.
`[J50] E. Asadi Kangarshahi and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “A Single-Letter Upper Bound to the Mismatch Capacity”, IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2013-2033, April 2021.
`[J49] R. Averbuch, N. Merhav, N. Weinberger and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Large Deviations Behavior of the Logarithmic
`Error Probability of Random Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 6635 - 6659, Nov. 2020.
`[J48] A. T. Asyhari, T. Koch and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Nearest Neighbor Decoding and Pilot-Aided Channel Estimation
`for Fading Channels”, Entropy, 22(9), 971, Aug. 2020, Special issue on Information Theory for Communication Systems.
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`[J47] J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Importance Sampling for Coded-modulation Error Probability
`Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68. no. 1, pp. 289-300, Jan. 2020.
`[J46] G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Guill´en i F`abregas and S. Verd´u, “The Error Probability of Generalized Perfect Codes via the
`Meta-Converse”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 5705 - 5717, Sept. 2019.
`[J45] A. Somekh-Baruch, J. Scarlett and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Generalized Random Gilbert-Varshamov Codes”, IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 3452 - 3469, May 2019.
`[J44] M. Abroshan, R. Venkataramanan and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Codes for Channels with Segmented Edits”, IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue in Memory of Solomon W. Golomb, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 3086 - 3098, April
`2018.
`[J43] J. Scarlett, A. Martinez and A. Guill´en i F`abregas, “Mismatched Multi-letter Successive Decoding for the Multiple-
`Access Channel”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 2253 - 2266, April 2018.
`[J42] M. Qin, J. Guo, A. Bhatia, A. Guill´en i F`abregas and P. Siegel “Polar Codes with LLR-Oriented Constructions”, IEEE
`Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1221-1224, June 2017.
`[J41] I. E. Bocharova, A. Guill´en i F`abregas, B. D. Kudryashov, A. Martinez, A. Tauste Campo and G. Vazquez-Vilar,
`“Multi-Class Source-Channel Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 5093-5104, Sept. 2016.
`[J40] J. Scarlett, A. Martinez and A. Guill´en