Marco Chiani (IEEE Fellow) received the Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in
electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and
computer engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1989
and 1993, respectively.
He is a Full Professor in Telecommunications (since 2001) at the
University of Bologna. During summer 2001, he was a Visiting
Scientist at AT&T Research Laboratories, Middletown, NJ. Since
2003 he has been a frequent visitor at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, where he presently holds a Research
Affiliate appointment.
He was the founding Director (2010-2013) of the Industrial Research
Center on ICT at the University of Bologna.
He has been leading the research unit of the University of Bologna in several national and european projects FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, and has been a consultant to the
European Space Agency (ESA-ESOC) for the design and evaluation of
error correcting codes based on LDPCC for space CCSDS applications.
Evaluator of research projects in Europe and internationally (also for the National Science Foundation, USA), he was the national representative of the Domain Committee on ICT for the European programs COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)).
His research interests are in the areas of information theory, wireless systems, statistical signal processing and quantum information. His contributions include also exponential bounds for the Gaussian error function, and the statistical distribution of the eigenvalues of random matrices.
He chaired, organized sessions and served on the Technical Program
Committees at several IEEE international Conferences. Among the recent, he has been Co-chair of the "IEEE Communication Theory Symposium" IEEE ICC 2011, TPC Co-chair of the "IEEE Comm. Theory Workshop 2011", general co-chair of the conference "IEEE ICUWB 2011", Co-chair of the "IEEE Communication Theory Symposium" IEEE ICC 2016, TPC Chair of the conference IEEE ISWCS 2017, Co-chair of the "IEEE Communication Theory Symposium" IEEE Globecom 2020, Industry Panel Chair IEEE Globecom 2021.
He received several awards, including the 2006 ICNEWS award “For Fundamental Contributions to
the Theory and Practice of Wireless Communications”, the 2008 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee
Outstanding Service Award, the Communication Theory
Symposium Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2008, the Best Paper Award
at the 2007 IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, the
Best Paper Award at the Int. Wireless Commun. and Mobile Computing
IWCMC 2006. He received the 2011 IEEE Communications Society
Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems,
the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize for to
the best article published in a Communications Society magazine,
the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the
Field of Communications Theory.
He is the past chair (2002–2004) of the Radio Communications
Committee of the IEEE Communication Society and past Editor of
Wireless Communication (2000–2007) for the journal IEEE
Transactions on Communications.
He served as chair (2013-14) of the international prize IEEE "Eric E.
Sumner Award", assigned for outstanding contributions to
communications technology.
He served as chair (2016-17) of the international prize IEEE "Kiyo Tomiyasu Award", assigned to recognize outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications.
As a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE ComSoc (2011-2013) he gave
lectures and seminars in several continents on wireless
communication systems and networks.
Since 2011 he is a Fellow of the IEEE, named for “Contributions to
wireless communication systems”.
In 2012 he has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.
