ABRARDO ANDREA

Andrea Abrardo received his "laurea" degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering at the University of Florence, Italy, in 1993. From January 1994 to November 1994, he worked in the Image Processing and Communications Laboratory of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Florence, in collaboration with the Tuscany Region, on the development of broadband network infrastructures. From November 1994 to October 1997, he was a PhD student at the same Department of Electronic Engineering. In June 1998, he obtained the PhD degree with a thesis on "Web-based Tele-Radiology Systems". In 1998, he joined the Department of Information Technology at the University of Siena, Italy, as a researcher. He is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Siena. In 2017, he obtained the scientific national qualification for the role of full professor of telecommunications. His interests are in the area of resource allocation strategies for wireless networks, with a focus on 5G mobile systems. He has published more than 130 technical papers and has been involved in several national and European projects. In 2011, he was awarded the Transactions Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. From 2015 to 2019, he was an associate editor (editorial board member) of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWCOM) and a guest editor for several journals. From 2017 to 2020, he coordinated 5G pre-stage trials in Milan, Italy, on behalf of the National Inter-University Telecommunications Consortium (CNIT) and in collaboration with Vodafone Italia S.p.A.