Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Address(es) P.le Chaplin 23, Parma, Italy Telephone(s) +39 0521-982671 Mobile: +39 340-2947752 Email(s) Nationality(-ies) andreamodenini@gmail.com Italian Date of birth September 15, 1986 Gender Male Linkedin profile it.linkedin.com/in/andreamodenini/ Last update November 10, 2014 Experience Date Position held Name and address of employed January 2014 - (current position) Postdoctoral researcher. Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), Italy, http://www.unipr.it. Research on digital communications with particular emphasis on iterative detection and decoding algorithms, communication theory, applied information theory, satellite channels, and synchronization. Date January 2014 Position held Instructor for a short course on digital signal processing. Name and address of employed Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), Italy, http://www.unipr.it. Instructor for a short course (one week) on techniques to simulate the satellite channel. The course was attended by PhD students, professors and non-academic employees from different countries of Europe. Date April 2012 Position held PhD visiting student at Lund university, supervised by professor Fredrik Rusek. Name and address of employed Lund university, Sweden, www.lunduniversity.lu.se. Research on detection algorithms based on the channel shortening technique. Date January 2011 - January 2014 Position held Teaching assistant. Name and address of employed Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), Italy, http://www.unipr.it. Teaching assistant for some BSc and MSc courses in telecommunications engineering: information theory, estimation and detection theory, basics of communication theory. Date July 2008 Page 1 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Position held Name and address of employed Main activities and Web developer Studio Legale Barazzoni & Furnari, Viale Isonzo, 1, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Web developer and web master. Date September 2008 Position held Technical Adviser. Name and address of employed Foedus SRL, Piazza Alpini d Italia 8, Parma, Italy. Main activities and Intellectual property strategy adviser for software developed in Java. Date September 2005 - January 2006 Position held Technical Adviser. Name and address of employed NetBuilder SRL, Via Zarotto 63, Parma, Italy. Main activities and Java programmer. Date January 2005 - December 2009 Position held Web developer. Name and address of employed Wu Wei TCKFA, Parma, Italy. Main activities and Web developer and web master. Date June 2004 - August 2004 Position held Programmer. Name and address of employed Sinfo Pragma SPA, Via Benedetta 77/A, Parma, Italy. Main activities and Java and Visual Basic programmer. Education Date January 2011 - January 2014 Title or qualification awarded PhD in Information engineering. Iterative detection and decoding algorithms, satellite communications, communication theory, applied information theory, synchronization. Thesis title "Advanced transceivers for spectrally-efficient communications", advisor Prof. Giulio Colavolpe. Available on http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5685. Name and type of organization Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), http://www.unipr.it. Date October 2008 - December 2010 Title or qualification awarded Master s degree (3+2 year program) in Telecommunications Engineering. Grade 110/110 cum laude. Optical communications, Digital communications and Networks. Thesis title "Detection and decoding on channels with insertion, deletion and substituion", adviser Prof. Giulio Colavolpe. Name and type of organization Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), http://www.unipr.it. Date October 2005 - October 2008 Title or qualification awarded Bachelor s degree (3 year program) in Telecommunications Engineering. Grade 110/110 cum laude. Telecommunications, Electronics, Computer Science. Page 2 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Name and type of organization Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), http://www.unipr.it. Date September 2000 - June 2005 Title or qualification awarded Industrial Engineer of Computer Science. Grade 100/100. Programming, Electronics. Name and type of organization Projects Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale (Industrial Polytechnic School) Leonardo Da Vinci, Parma, http://www.itis.pr.it. Date Project Description January 2014 - Today Interference management techniques, funded by the European Space Agency, ESA- ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Project focused on the use of multiple satellites to increase the spectral efficiency of broadcast transmissions. Date September 2013 - December 2013 Project On the Use of Time-Frequency Packing in DVB-Sx Systems, funded by the Italian national television (Radiotelevisione italiana, RAI), Turin, Italy. Description Project focused on the use of time-frequency packing (also known as faster-than- Nyquist), constellation and pulse shaping optimization for satellite communications. Date September 2012 - September 2013 Project Next Generation Waveforms for Improved Spectral Efficiency, funded by the European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Description Project focused on techniques to increase the spectral efficiency of the satellite channel (possibly with more carriers per transponder). The studied techniques were mainly based on time-frequency packing (also known as faster-than-nyquist). Date November 2010 - March 2012 Project Enhanced Digital Modem Techniques Development and Validation, funded by the European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, under contract no. 4000102300. Description Project focused on the adoption of advanced detection algorithms with the aim of increasing the spectral efficiency. Certificates of attendance Date November 2013 Event Mathematical thinking course. Name and type of organization Stanford university, on-line courses, https://www.coursera.org. Date June 2012 Event Probabilistic graphical model course. Name and type of organization Stanford university, on-line courses, https://www.coursera.org. Date December 2012 Event Multicanonical Monte Carlo and Importance Sampling simulation techniques: How are they related? course for PhD students. Name and type of organization Università degli Studi di Parma (University of Parma), Italy, http://www.unipr.it. Date September 2011 Page 3 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Event Name and type of organization Summer school SatNEx III in Siena (Italy). Università degli Studi di Siena (University of Siena), Italy, http://www.unisi.it. Publications Journals 1. A. Modenini, A. Piemontese, A. Ugolini, and G. Colavolpe "On the Use of Multiple Satellites to Improve the Spectral Efficiency of Broadcast Transmissions," submitted to IEEE Transaction on Broadcasting. 2. P. Banelli, S. Buzzi, G. Colavolpe, A. Modenini, F. Rusek, and A. Ugolini "Modulation Formats and Waveforms for the Physical Layer of 5G Wireless Networks: Who will be the heir of OFDM?," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 31, pp. 80-93, November 2014.. 3. A. Modenini, F. Rusek, and G. Colavolpe "Optimal transmit filters for ISI channels under channel shortening detection," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, pp. 4997-5005, December 2013. 4. A. Piemontese, A. Modenini, G. Colavolpe, and N. Alagha "Improving the spectral efficiency of nonlinear satellite systems through time-frequency packing and advanced processing," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, pp. 3404-3412, August 2013. 5. G. Colavolpe, A. Modenini, and F. Rusek, "Channel Shortening for Nonlinear Satellite Channels," Communications Letters, IEEE, vol.16, no.12, pp.1929-1932, December 2012. 6. G. Colavolpe, Tommaso Foggi, A. Modenini, and A. Piemontese, "Faster-than- Nyquist and beyond: how to improve spectral efficiency by accepting interference," Opt. Express 19, 26600-26609 (2011). Page 4 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Conferences 1. A. Modenini, F. Rusek, and G. Colavolpe, "Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling for Next Generation Communication Architectures," in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. 2. A. Ugolini, A. Piemontese, A. Modenini, and G. Colavolpe, "On the Use of Multiple Satellites to Improve the Spectral Efficiency of Broadcast Transmissions," in Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC) 2014, Livorno, Italy. 3. A. Ugolini, A. Modenini, G. Colavolpe, G. Picchi, V. Mignone, and A. Morello, "Advanced Techniques for Spectrally Efficient DVB-S2X Systems," in Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC) 2014, Livorno, Italy. 4. S. Andrenacci, M. Angelone, E. A. Candreva, G. Colavolpe, A. Ginesi, F. Lombardo, A. Modenini, C. Morel, A. Piemontese, A. Vanelli-Coralli, "Physical Layer Performance of Multi-User Detection in Broadband Multi-Beam Systems based on DVB-S2," in European Wireless 2014 conference, Barcelona, Spain, April 2014. 5. A. Piemontese, A. Modenini, G. Colavolpe, and N. Alagha, "Spectral Efficiency of Time-Frequency-Packed Nonlinear Satellite Systems," in 31th AAIA International communications satellite systems conference, Florence, Italy, October 2013. 6. G. Colavolpe, and A. Modenini, "Iterative carrier syncrhonization in the absence of distributed pilots for low SNR applications," in Proc. Intern. Workshop of Tracking Telemetetry and Command System for Space Communications. (TTC 13), European Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2013. 7. A. Modenini, F. Rusek, and G. Colavolpe, "Optimal transmit filters for constrained complexity channel shortening detectors," in Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. Commun. (ICC 13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013, pp. 1688-1693. 8. A. Modenini, G. Colavolpe, and N. Alagha, "How to significantly improve the spectral efficiency of linear modulations through time-frequency packing and advanced processing," in Proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. Commun. (ICC 12), Ottawa, Canada, June 2012, pp. 3430-3434. Patents 1. G. Colavolpe, A. Modenini, A. Piemontese, and N. Alagha, "Data detection method and data detector for signals transmitted over a communication channel with inter-symbol interference," assigned to ESA-ESTEC, The Neederlands. International patent application n. F027800186/WO/PCT, December 2012. Honors & Awards 1. Best PhD Thesis award 2014 issued by Italian society for information and telecommunication technology (gruppo per le telecomunicazioni e tecnologie dell informazione, GTTI). GTTI establishes an annual award in recognition of the best three PhD theses defended in Italian Universities in the area of communication technology. 2. Student Travel Grant for the international conference on communication (ICC) 2012. Page 5 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
Personal Skills and Competencies Mother tongue(s) Other languages Italian English Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) English Listening B1 Independent Reading B2 Independent Spoken interaction B1 Independent (*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level Spoken production B1 Independent B2 Independent Programming languages Computer Operating systems Computer programs and environments Driving License I have a long-time experience of C/C++ (and libraries IT++, Topcom), Java, Matlab, HTML. I also know most of the Visual Studio.NET languages (C#, Visual Basic, etc.), PHP, javascript, although I am not well-experienced of them. Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Matlab, Latex, Office, Gnuplot, Mathematica, Photoshop. B Additional information Married, no children. I am aware of the D. Lgs. 196/03 of the Italian Law and consent the used of my data. Page 6 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of