DSPCom

Laboratory of Signal Processing for Communications

Photo not available

João Marcos Travassos Romano


Current - Professor
Department of Microwaves and Optics – DMO
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering – FEEC

1987 - Ph.D. Degree
Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud), U.P. XI, France.
Ph.D. Thesis: Localisation de Fréquences Bruitées par Filtrage Adaptatif et Implantation d'algorithmes de Moindres Carrés Rapides.

1984 - M.Sc. Degree
Electrical Engineering - School of Electrical and Computing Engineering at State University of Campinas.
M.Sc. Thesis: Códigos Balanceados para Transmissão Digital por Fibra Óptica.

1981 - B.Sc Degree
Electrical Engineering - School of Electrical and Computing Engineering at State University of Campinas.

Biography

João Marcos Travassos Romano was born in Rio de Janeiro on April 12, 1960. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas (1981). He is M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas (1984) and PhD from the University of Paris XI, Orsay (1987) in Signal Processing and Automatic. In 1988, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas (FEEC/UNICAMP), where he is now Professor. He was Associate Director of FEEC / UNICAMP. He was the President of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT). At UNICAMP, he received the "Zeferino Vaz" Academic Recognition Award, edition of 2008, for his activities of teaching and research. He was a Visiting Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métier (CNAM / Paris) at the Université de Paris-Descartes and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France. He is a co-author of the book Unsupervised Signal Processing: Channel Equalization and Source Separation, to be distributed by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group LLC) in 2010. He is a Senior Member of SBrT and IEEE.

Research Interests
  • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communication Theory;
  • User Scheduling in Broadcast Systems;
  • Channels with Limited Feedback;
  • Blind and Semi-Blind Equalization;
  • Iterative Techniques for Communications;
  • xDSL Systems;
  • Space-Time Codes.
Contact

e-mail

Link to Personal Homepage


Back to members' home.