Michele Zorzi was born in Venice, Italy, on December 6th, 1966.
He received the Laurea Degree and the Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering
from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. During
the Academic
Year 1992/93, he was on leave at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD), attending
graduate courses and doing research on multiple access in mobile radio
networks. In 1993,
he joined the faculty of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione,
Politecnico
di Milano, Italy. After spending three years with the Center for Wireless
Communications
at UCSD, in 1998 he joined the School of Engineering of the University of
Ferrara, Italy,
where he became a Professor in 2000.
Since November 2003, he has been on the faculty at the Information
Engineering Department
of the University of Padova.
His present research interests include performance evaluation in mobile
communications
systems, random access in mobile radio networks, ad hoc and sensor networks,
energy
constrained communications protocols, and broadband wireless access.
Dr. Zorzi was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine in
2003--2005, is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions
on Communications,
and serves on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications,
the Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and
the ACM/URSI/Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks. He was also guest editor
for special
issues in the IEEE Personal Communications Magazine ("Energy Management
in
Personal Communications Systems," Jun. 1998) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas
in
Communications ("Multi-media Network Radios," May 1999, and "Underwater Wireless
Communications and Networks," to be published in 2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Updated Nov. 2007
