Short CV – June 2010

Education:

July 1998: M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy).
March 2002: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ENST/Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France), work done at the Eurecom Institute (Sophia Antipolis, France).

Employment History:

April 2002 - December 2004: post-doctoral research associate at Wireless Communications Lab, the School of Communication and Computer Science at the EPFL/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland).
January 2005 – July 2011: Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL USA).
August 2011 – present: Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL USA).

Grants and Awards:

2002: Best Student Paper at the EW2002 (European Wireless Conference).
2007: NSF (National Science Foundation) Cooperative Networks (CAREER).
2010: NSF (National Science Foundation) Layered Networks.
2011: NSF (National Science Foundation) Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation.

Patents:

D. Graupe, D. Tuninetti and I. Basu, “Apparatus for managing a neurological Disorder”; Provisional Patent Application No. 61/052,870 May 13, 2008; PCT Application No. PCT/US09/43637 (WO/2009/140283), filled in May 2009; PENDING.

Services:

Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter from March 2006 to March 2009.
Associate editor for IEEE Communications Letters from February 2006 to December 2009.
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from July 2010 to present.
Technical Program Committee (co)chair: Communication Theory Symposium of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010, May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa).
Technical Program Committee (co)chair: Second Annual Summer School of Information Theory (August 2009, Evanston, IL USA).
Poster Sessions chair: the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009, October 2009, Taormina, Italy).
Technical Program Committee member: several IEEE workshops and conferences, including: ISIT, ICC, Globecom, ITW, PIMRC, Infocom, WNC, MSWiM, ICNSC, and SmartGridComm.
Reviewer for the most prestigious conferences and journals of the IEEE Information Theory Society and IEEE ComSoc.
Panelist for NSF (National Science Foundation) and INS (Israel Science Foundation).
Committees:

UIC ECE department:
Undergraduate Committee, 2008/2009-present;
Graduate Committee, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008;
Scholarship committee, 2006/2007;
Search Committee, 2006/2007, 2007/2008;
Web Committee, 2008/2009-present;
Student Judiciary Affairs, 2008/2009-present;

UIC College of engineering:
Wexler Chair Search Committee, 2006/2007;
Assistant Professor Committee, 2007/2008;
Grievances, 2007/2008-present;

UIC (university-wide):
Campus Research Board (CRB), Fall 2008-present (term ends in Spring 2012);
Faculty Senate, Fall 2009-present (term ends in Spring 1012);
Senate Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Fall 2010-present;