Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" (DEI), University of Bologna, his research focuses on wireless systems and networks, with particular emphasis on communication technologies for Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility.
Education
Alessandro Bazzi received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Telecommunications in 2006.
Career
From 2002 to 2019, he carried out research activities at the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), first as a research fellow and subsequently as a researcher.
In 2019, he joined the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Bologna as a tenure-track researcher (RTD-b), and in 2022 he was appointed Associate Professor.
He is a member of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), where he co-founded the WiLab National Laboratory.
Teaching Activities
Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Universities of Bologna and Ferrara in the field of telecommunications and wireless systems. He currently teaches courses in the Master's Degree Programmes in Telecommunications Engineering and Electronic Engineering for Intelligent Vehicles at the University of Bologna, covering wireless communications, V2X systems, and connected vehicles.
He supervises numerous Master's and Ph.D. theses and mentors international visiting researchers.
Research Activities
His research focuses on wireless systems and networks, with particular attention to communication technologies for Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility (CCAM). His main research interests include V2X communications, IEEE 802.11bd/ITS-G5 and 5G/6G NR-V2X technologies, radio resource management, large-scale wireless network simulation, and, more recently, the integration of wireless communications with automotive radar.
He coordinates the development of open-source simulators and experimental platforms for the evaluation of communication systems for connected vehicles, and has been or is the principal investigator of several national and international research projects funded by public institutions and industrial partners, including Huawei, NXP, the Car2Car Communications Consortium, and the Italian PNRR RESTART programme (MoVeOver project).
He actively contributes to international standardization activities within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), participating in Specialist Task Forces dedicated to the evolution of V2X technologies and the development of standards for Intelligent Transport Systems.
Editorial Activities and Other Relevant Contributions
He served as Chief Editor of Mobile Information Systems (2020–2024) and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of MDPI Vehicles. Previously, he served on the Editorial Boards of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and the Open Journal of Modelling and Simulation, and was Guest Editor of special issues on connected vehicle technologies published by Elsevier and MDPI.
He has delivered keynote speeches, tutorials, and invited lectures at several IEEE international conferences and foreign universities, organized workshops and special sessions, regularly serves on the Technical Program Committees of international conferences, and acts as reviewer for numerous scientific journals and competitive research projects.
He is CNIT representative within the Car2Car Communications Consortium and a member of One6G.
Awards and Honors
He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and has been included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List since 2020. He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ITST 2017 conference and the Best Application Demo Award within the Italian national RESTART programme in 2026.
He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2018. In 2021, he obtained the Italian National Scientific Habilitation for the position of Full Professor.
