MICHELE ZORZI

Center for Wireless Communications - University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
ph.: +1-619-534-8246 - fax: +1-619-822-1247 - e-mail: zorzi@cwc.ucsd.edu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of Padua, Italy, Sept. 1994 (thesis: ``Multiple Access Techniques for Mobile Radio Systems'').
• Full-time graduate student within the Exchange Abdroad Program, University of California, San Diego, Academic Year 1992-93.
• Laurea Degree (M.S. equivalent) in Electrical Engineering (honors), University of Padua, Italy, July 1990 (thesis: ``Availability and Protection in Telecommunications Networks'').

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Communications aspects of wireless systems, ranging from the physical layer performance and channel characterization to the data-link and network protocol performance, including multiple access schemes.
• Performance evaluation of multiple access schemes in the presence of typical radio channel effects such as multipath fading and shadowing.
• Proposal and performance evaluation of a new technique for cellular packet access in wireless network, called CDPA (Capture-Division packetized access), based on a polling scheme and on the radio capture effect.
• Modeling of channel errors and of their effect on higher layers and characterization of the packet-level error process based on widely used channel models (e.g., the Gilbert channel).
• Performance evaluation of ARQ schemes and of TCP in Markovian channels.
• Energy consumption of data transmission protocols and their performance in an energy-constrained environment.

This research has resulted in a number of refereed publications (27 journal papers and 45 conference papers have been published or accepted for publication so far), as well as a few manuscripts currently under review. A complete list of publications is attached.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant for an undergraduate course on Telecommunications Systems (University of Padua, Italy, Fall 1991)
• Assistant Professor of ``Communications Theory'' and ``Communications Networks,'' and co-advisor of M.S. level students in wireless communications systems (Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1993-1996).
• Short courses for local industry on Telecommunications Networks (Milano, Italy)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Laurea Award ``G. Francini,'' by AEI, for the best Laurea thesis in 1990
• Laurea Award/Research Fellowship awarded by Telettra, S.p.A., 1990
• Continuous support by the University of Padua throughout the Ph.D. program.
• Fellowship of the University of California for the Exchange Abroad Program in 1992/93 (ranked first in the selection at the Universities of Padua and Venice)
• Research Fellowship ``A. Gini'' (including travel grant), by Gini Foundation, Italy, for studying abroad during the Academic Year 1992/93
• Research Fellowship ``G. Someda,'' by AEI, 1995.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITY

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Member (1995-present), Student Member (1989-94)
• IEEE Communications Society, 1989-present
• IEEE Information Theory Society, 1989-1994
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 1995-present
• AEI (Italian institute of Electrical Engineers): Member (1995-present), Student Member (1989-94)
  
• Referee for international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Wireless Networks) and for international conferences
• Technical Editor for the IEEE Personal Communications magazine, 1996-present
• Guest Editor for the IEEE Personal Communications magazine (special issue on ``Energy management in Personal Communications/Mobile Computing,'' to be published in 1998)
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 1997 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (San Diego, CA, Oct. 1997) and for the Sixth WINLAB workshop on third generation wireless information networks (New Brunswick, NJ, Mar. 1997)

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• Laurea thesis sponsored by and developed at Telettra, S.p.A, Milano, Italy (now ALCATEL-Telettra), Spring-Summer 1990
• Fellowship to continue on similar work as in the thesis awarded by Telettra, S.p.A, Fall 1990-Winter 1991
• Occasional consulting

EMPLOYMENT

• Project Scientist (University of California, San Diego, Center for Wireless Communications), 1995-present
• Assistant Professor (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), 1993-1996
• Visiting Scholar (University of California, San Diego), Summer 1994
• Research Assistant (University of Padua, Italy), 1990-1993

RESEARCH CONTRACTS

• various fellowships for research abroad (see above AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS)
• investigator in research programs sponsored by the Italian Research Council and the MURST while at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-1996)
• co-principal investigator for the three year research project ``A system approach to Wireless ATM'' (awarded by Sprint, Corp., in 1997, $1.5M)

CITIZENSHIP

Italian citizen, currently in the US on a J-1 visa (expires Aug. 1998).

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