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: control and modeling of cognitive and interference networks, transmission protocol modeling and error control techniques, cooperative communications, multiantenna communications He is author or co-author of 34 technical papers either published or accepted for publication major in international journals and conferences. I am 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 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", advisor: Prof. Michele Zorzi
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", supervisor: Prof. Michele Zorzi
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", supervisor: Prof. Velio Tralli
Positions:
Apr. 2005 to Dec. 2005: research fellow at University of Padova (prof. Michele Zorzi)
Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2008: PhD student, University of Padova (prof. Michele Zorzi)
Jan. 2008 to Aug. 2008: visiting researcher at the University of Southern California (prof. Urbashi Mitra)
Jan. 2009 to Dec 2009: post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padova (prof. Michele Zorzi)
May. 2009 to Jun. 2009: visiting post-doc at the University of Southern California (prof. Urbashi Mitra)
Jan. 2010 to now: post-doc at Stanford (prof. Andrea Goldsmith) the University of Southern California (prof. Urbashi Mitra)
Teaching Activity:
Teaching assistant for the M.E. course "Models for Network Performance Evaluation", held by Prof. Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Spring 2007
References:
-Michele Zorzi, Univ. of Padova
-Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
-Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology
