Dr. Roberto López-Valcarce is an Associate Professor and a member of the Signal Processing in Communications Group at the Atlantic Research Center for Telecommunications (atlanTTic), University of Vigo, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, USA, in 2000. From 2010 to 2013 he served as Program Manager of the Galician Regional Government R&D Program on Information and Communication Technologies. He has been the leading researcher of several publicly and privately funded R&D projects, and has published over 100 research papers in international conferences, journals and book chapters, holding several patents in collaboration with industry. He is the recipient of a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee. Since 2018 he serves as Subject Editor for Elsevier’s Signal Processing journal. His main research interests are at the intersection of statistical signal processing and digital communications.
