Gonzalo Vazquez Vilar

Signal Theory and Communications Department

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Biography

Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar received a Dual Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2005, the Master of Science Degree from Stanford University, U.S., in 2008 and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2011.

In 2011-2014, Dr. Vazquez-Vilar was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Since 2014 he has been with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, currently as Tenured Professor. He has held appointments as visiting researcher at Stanford University, U.S., University of Cambridge, U.K., and Princeton University, U.S.

His research interests are in signal processing and information theory. His current focus is in the derivation of fundamental limits for communication systems in the finite block-length regime and its extenssion to quantum systems. He has co-authored 16 articles in JCR journals, including the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, and he has co-authored 31 articles in proceedings of international conferences. Overall, his publications have been referenced over 1000 times and have h-index 18, according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Vazquez-Vilar served as Associate Editor of the journals Signal Processing, Elsevier (2018-2020), and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley-Hindawi (2016-2018), as Editor of the Special Issue “Finite Length Information Theory”, Entropy, MDPI. He served as the Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Spain Chapter in the period 2017-2019 and he has been involved in the organization of several international symposiums, including the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Barcelona, Spain) and the 2017 European School of Information Theory (Madrid, Spain). He has contributed as reviewer and Technical Program Committee member in several international journals and conferences.

Throughout his career Dr. Vazquez-Vilar has received multiple awards and scholarships in competitive calls. He has received the Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera in 2004, Beca Posgrado Extranjero Fundación Barrié de la Maza in 2006, Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI) grant in 2008, Gradiant Prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Communication and Information Technologies in 2011, the Formación Posdoctoral grant in 2013 and the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (Juan de la Cierva Incorporación) in 2015.

Affiliations (present and past)

University Carlos III Madrid,
Signal Processing Group,
Signal Theory and Communications Department
Avda. de la Universidad 30
28911 Leganes, Madrid, Spain

Princeton University,
Information Sciences and Systems Group,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

University Pompeu Fabra,
Information Theory and Coding Group,
Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies.
Tanger building (Comunication-Poblenou campus)
C Tanger, 122-140. 08018 Barcelona, Spain

University of Cambridge,
Signal Processing and Communications Lab,
Dept. of Engineering.
Trumpington Street, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

Stanford University,
Smart Antennas Research Group,
Information Systems Lab.
Packard 215
Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Gradiant research center,
Edificio CITEXVI, local 14,
Vigo University Campus, 36310 Vigo, Spain

University of Vigo,
Signal Processing in Communications Group,
Signal Processing and Communications Dept.
Telecommunications Engineering School,
University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain

Siemens AG,
Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S)
Martin-Luther-Str. 25
66111 Saarbruecken. Germany

Memberships

IEEE Member,
3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10016-5997 USA

Stanford Alumni Association,
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6105, USA

Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza,
Asociacion de becarios,
Canton Grande, 9
15003 A Coruna. Spain