Giovanni Giambene

Biography:

Giovanni Giambene received a Dr. Ing. degree in Electronics in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Informatics in 1997, both from the University of Florence, Italy. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Florence, Italy. He was the Technical External Secretary of the European Community COST 227 Action ("Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks"). He also contributed to the SAINT Project ("Satellite Integration in the Future Mobile Network," RACE 2117). From 1997 to 1998, he worked on a GSM development program with OTE (Marconi Group) in Florence, Italy. In 1999, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy. Currently, he is an associate professor, teaching the first-level course on Fundamentals on Telecommunications and the advanced course on Networking at the University of Siena. He was vice-Chair of the COST 290 Action (2004-2008), entitled "Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks" (Wi-QoST). He participated in the projects: (i) the SatNEx I & II network of excellence (EU FP6, 2004-2009) and SatNEx III&IV (ESA 2010-2018) as work package leader on radio access techniques, cross-layer air interface design, and network coding techniques for satellite systems; (ii) the EU FP7 Coordination Action "Road mapping technology for enhancing security to protect medical & genetic data" (RADICAL) as work package leader on security and privacy; (iii) the COST Action IC0906 (2010-2014) "Wireless Networking for Moving Objects" (WiNeMO) as national representative; (iv) the EU FP7 Coordination Action RESPONSIBILITY coordination action. At present, he is involved in the ESA SatNEX V project. Giambene is IEEE senior member and has been nominated IEEE Comsoc distinguished lecturer for 2021-2023. Since 2015, he has been an IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology editor. Since 2019, he has been an editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.