Vittorio Degli Esposti

short curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

1983-1988                                   University of Bologna, Telecommunication Engineering Course

March 1989                                 University of Bologna, 'Laurea' degree (100 out of 100, Magna cum Laude)

May 1989                                    Professional engineering state exam (full marks)

1990-1993                                   University of Bologna, Radiocommunication Ph. D. program

1994                                            Ph.D. degree

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

1989-1990                                   Siemens Telecomunicazioni, Milan, Research Department

1990-1991                                   C.A.T. S.p.A., Bologna, Research & development engineer

1994-1997                                   University of Bologna (DEIS), Research Associate

1997-2002                                   University of Bologna (DEIS) Assistant professor (Confirmed Research Associate)

2003-present                               University of Bologna (DEIS) Associate Professor

Academic activities

I served as a teaching assistant at the University of Bologna, teaching classes on Radio Propagation since the Academic Year 1994/95.

Since 1999 I've been in charge of full courses at the University of Bologna.

Currently I am in charge of the following courses:

- Radio Propagation (‘Propagazione', under-graduate)

- Radio propagation and planning of mobile radio systems (“Propagazione e pianificazione nei sistemi d’area”, post-graduate)

Since 1995 I have been organizer and lecturer of the seminar “Microcellular propagation and field prediction“, annually held in the framework of the post-graduate ‘Master in Radio communication Engineering’ of the University of Bologna.

I tought several seminars on radio propagation and channel modeling in international conferences and Training Schools organized in the framework of European Projects and COST Actions.

In 2006 I held a position as a contract professor at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University of Technology, Finland) where I taught the course “Urban propagation modelling and ray tracing”.

SHORT SCIENTIFIC CURRICULUM

At the beginning of my career I undertook a research activity in the field of applied electromagnetics and nonlinear microwave circuits [3]. During a successive phase my activity focused on the mobile radio field and in particular on the characterization of in indoor and urban radio propagation.

In collaboration with other colleagues I developed ray tracing/UTD models for the simulation of indoor and urban propagation. Initially, these field prediction programs have been validated with measurements and used to perform coverage and system-level performance predictions, to evaluate space and frequency diversity performance, and to perform a wideband characterization of the radio channel [19][25][34][35][39][76].

More recently, I have been working on the development of diffuse scattering models to be embedded into a ray tracing tool. The work has been initially carried out in collaboration with Professor Henry Bertoni from Polytechnic University Brooklyn (now NYU Polytecnic, USA) and demonstrated the key importance of diffuse scattering in urban and indoor propagation and its dramatic impact on the time- and space-distribution of the radio signal [37][38][50][61][66]. The novel semi statistical ray tracing model including diffuse scattering has been recently improved and validated against specific measurements showing good performance even for predicting the time- and angle-distribution of the radio signal and the cross-polarization coupling, where traditional propagation models usually fail [63][65][75][77].

I am official Reviewer for several IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

I participated in the COST 231, COST 259, COST 273, COST 2100, NEWCOM and NEWCOM++ European Cooperation Projects. I have participated in the ALPHA European IP project.

In 1998 I have been visiting researcher at the Polytechnic University (now NYU Polytecnic, USA), working with Professor Henry L. Bertoni in the framework of a Collaboration project funded by the Italian National Research Council (CNR).

I am Author or co-Author of over 70 scientific publications.

I have been chairman and organizer of several convened sessions in international conferences and I have been appointed Vice-Chair of EuCAP2010 and EuCAP 2011.

I am a member of the Radio Propagation Board of EuRAAP