Post Doctorate Researcher at
Stanford University, (prof. Andrea Goldsmith)
University of Southern California, (prof. Urbashi Mitra)
Short biography:
Marco Levorato (S'06, M'09) was born in Venice, Italy, in 1980. He obtained both the BE (Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering) and the ME (Telecommunications Engineering) summa cum laude from the University of Ferrara, Italy, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In 2009, he received a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Padova. During 2008 he was on leave at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States. In 2009 he was a post-doc researcher at the University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. Michele Zorzi. Currently he is a post-doc researcher at Stanford and the University of Southern California (USC) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Goldsmith and Prof. Urbashi Mitra. His research interests include: stochastic modeling and control, cognitive radios, smart energy systems, cooperative communications, MIMO networks. He is author or co-author of 34 technical papers either published or accepted for publication major in international journals and conferences. He is a Member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. He is also serving as a reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing and the major IEEE Conferences.
Education:
PhD, Doctoral School of Information Engineering, University of Padova, foreseen defense: April 2009. Thesis: "Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple Simultaneous Access"
M.E. in Telecommunications Engineering, 110/110 summa cum laude. University of Ferrara, March 23rd, 2005. Thesis: "Protocol Design for Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple Antenna Systems"
B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 110/110 summa cum laude. University of Ferrara, Dec. 19th, 2002. Thesis: "Resource Allocation in Space-Time Division Multiplexing Access Systems"
Academic appointments:
Jan. 2010 - now: post-doctorate research affiliate at Stanford University and the University of Southern California
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2009: post-doctorate researcher at the University of Padova Apr. 2005 - Dec. 2005: research fellow at the University of PadovaVisiting appointments:
Apr. 2009 - June 2009: visiting post-doctorate researcher at the University of Southern California
Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2008: visiting scholar at the University of Southern California
Teaching Activity:
Teaching assistant for the M.E. course "Models for Network Performance Evaluation", held by Prof. Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Spring 2007
