Curriculum Vitae J. Riba

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Jaume Riba Sagar= ra

Work Address:

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<= st1:place>Technical University of = Catalonia (UPC)

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EDUCATION

Feb. 1992: BSc/MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación La Salle Bona= nova (Universidad Ramon Llull) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación de Barcelona (Technical Univer= sity of Catalonia (UPC)).

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April 1997: Doctorate (PhD) on Telecommunications Engineering (Cum Laude) from Technical University of = Catalonia (UPC).

Language: Spanish (castellan), Catalan and Engli= sh.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEMENT HISTORY

Sept. 1987 – Sept. 1989: Professor of electronics at “Instituto Politécnico Escuelas Profesionales Salesianas de Sarriá” (IPEPSS).

Jan. 1991 - Oct. 1992: Research assistant at the Department of Signal Theory (TSC) and Communications of the Technical Unive= rsity of Catalonia (UPC).

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Oct. 1992 - Dic. 1995: Assistant professor (type= II) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunica= ción de Barcelona (ETSETB) of the Technical University of Catalon= ia (UPC).

Jan. 1996 - Dic. 1997: Assistant professor (type III) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (Department of Signal Theory (TSC)) (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación de Barcelona, (ETSETB))

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Dic. 1997 – present: Associate professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (Department of Signal Theory (T= SC)) (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación de Barcelona= , (ETSETB)).

Sep. 1999 – present: Coordinator of course= s at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) on the subjects: Analogue Communications (autumn 1999, autumn 2005, spring 2005), Advanced Signal Processing (Doctorate) (spring 1999) and Stochastic Processes (Doctorate and European Master of Research on Information Technologies (MERIT)) (autumn 20= 04).

TEACHING

Analogue Filter Design (3 courses), Analogue Communications (9 courses), Analogue Communications Laboratory (14 courses)= , Digital Communications (8 courses), Signal Processing (1 curse), at ETSETB, UPC.

System Laboratory (3 courses) at EUPBL, UPC.

(Doctorate) Advanced Signal Processing (Bayesian estimation and Least Squares) (5 courses), at the Department of Signal Theo= ry and Communications (TSC), UPC.

(Doctorate). Stochastic processes. (2 courses), = at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), UPC, in the frame= work of the European Master of Research on Information Technologies (MERIT).

Thesis advisor of “Efficient Multipath Mitigat= ion in Navigation Systems” by Jesus Selva, (Cum Laude), Feb. 2004 and “Signal Processing for Wireless Location” by Andreu Urruela (Ap= ril 2006).

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Beamforming, Array Processing, Statistical Signal Processing, Digital Synchronization, Communications and Wireless Location.<= o:p>

AWARDS

Honorable mention of the “Premi Ciutat de Barcelona”, in the modality of Technological Research for the work “Digital Communication System of the Automatic Transfer Vehicle”= ;, Instituto de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Barce= lona. Barcelona (Spain), January 1999.<= /o:p>

Co- recipient of the 2003 IEEE Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for the paper entitled “Conditional Maximum Likelihood Timing Recovery: Estimators and Bounds", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 835-850, April 2001, co-authored with Gregori Vazquez and J= osep Sala, and nominated in two consecutive years.

IEEE-RELATED ACTIVITIES

Guest Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, for a Special Issue on Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation w= ith applications to Communications, Dogandzic, A.; Riba, J.; Seco, G.; Swindlehurst, A.L., IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 22, Issue 4, July 2005 Page(s):10–11.

Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, (since 2005 to 20= 07)

Regular reviewer of several IEEE Journals and Conference papers since 1996.

Elevated to Senior Member grade in 2005.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Internation= al Journal on Navigation and Observation (IJNO), (since Nov 2006 to present).<= o:p>

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Riba received the BSc/MSc degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. In 1992, he entered the Depart= ment of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) and the Signal Processing and Communications Group (SPC), starting his professional career as Assistant Professor and Research Assistant in the areas of statistical signal process= ing, digital communications, array processing and digital synchronization. In 19= 97 he received the PhD degree in telecommunications engineering from the Techn= ical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain (Cum Laude). In 1998 = he was promoted to Associate Professor. From 1992, he has been involved in several signal processing research and development projects in the framework of the European Space Agency and IST research programs. In 2001 he started his activity on the area of wireless location within the IST project EMILY, bei= ng the principal investigator.

Dr. Riba has teaching experience since 1992 in t= he areas of: Analog Communications, Digital Communications (theory and laboratory), Filter Design and Signal Processing. Doctorate teaching experi= ence since 1998 in the areas of: Advanced Signal Processing and Stochastic Processes, in the Doctorate Program of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC). Dr. Riba took the responsibility in 2004 of entirely developing and teaching the contents of the course of "Stochastic Processes", in the framework of the European Master of Research on Information Technologies (MERIT), focusing it on those aspects closely rela= ted with the statistical signal processing field. Dr. Riba has been the director and supervisor of two Ph.D. thesis: "Efficient Multipath Mitigation in Navigation Systems" (published in 2004) and "Signal Processing for Wireless Location" (published in 2006).

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Dr. Riba has research experience from 1992 in the areas of: Beamforming, Array Processing, Digital Synchronization, Communica= tions and Wireless Location. On these areas, Dr. Riba has published one book chap= ter, five papers in international periodic journals and about forty papers in international conferences. His work is cited by other authors on the field = in one book, and in about ten journal papers. Dr. Riba has also developed team-leader experience: He has been involved in six national scientific projects, two European IST projects, five R+D projects with the European Sp= ace Agency and three R+D projects with the national industry. He has been the scientific team-leader and manager responsible for his university of the following projects: one international project funded by the European Commun= ity within the V framework on Information Society Technology (IST) (from 2001 t= o 2005); two projects funded by the European Space Agency (from 2000 to 2002); and o= ne national project (2005) with a national enterprise. The main scientific are= as on those projects have been: digital synchronization, efficient demodulator design for satellite transponders, wireless location algorithm development = and efficient spread-spectrum code&phase adquisition&tracking algorithm= development.

Concerning the IEEE-related activities: Dr. Riba= was co-guest editor of the Signal Processing Magazine in an special issue for Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation with Applications to Communications (2004-2005). From 1996, he is being regularly invited as a reviewer in several IEEE journals and conference papers. In 2005, he was elevated to Senior Member grade of the IEEE, and he is serving as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since then.=

PUBLICATIONS

Book chapters=

[B1] = Gregori Vázquez and Jaume Riba , Sig= nal Processing Advances in Communications, Vol. 2: Trends in Single-user and Multi-user Systems, Chapter 9: Non-Data Aided Digital Synchronization= , Editors: Georgios Giannakis, Yingbo Hua, Petre Stoica y Lang Tong, Prentice-Hall, Ju= ly 2000.

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Journals=

[J6] Andreu Urruela, Josep Sala and Jaume Riba, “Average performance analysis of circular and hyperbolic geolocation”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 55, Iss= ue 1, pp. 52-66, January 2006.

[J5] Aleksandar Dogandzic, Jaume Riba, Gonzalo S= eco and A. Lee Swindlehurst (Guest editors for the Special Issue on Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation w= ith applications to Communications), Positioning and navigation with applications to communications, IEEE Signal Process= ing Magazine, Vol. 22, Issue 4, p= p. 10-11, July 2005.

[J4] Jaume Riba, A Performance Lower Bound for Quadratic Timing Recovery Accounting for the Sy= mbol Transition Density, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, Is= sue 11, pp. 3278-3288, November 2004.

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[J3] Jaume Riba, Josep Sala and Gregori Vázquez, Conditional Maximum= Likelihood Timing Recovery: Estimators and Bounds, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol 49, Issue 4, pp. 835-850, April 2001. (2003 Best Paper Awar= d of the IEEE Signal Processing Society).

[J2] Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, Robust Beamforming for Interference Rejection in Mobile Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Special Issue on Signal Processing for Advanced Communications, Vol 45, Issue 1, pp. 271-275, January 1997.

[J1] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Bayesian Recursive Estimation of Frequ= ency and Timing Exploiting the Cyclostationary Property, Signal Processing (EURASIP), Special Issue on COST #229 International Workshop on Adaptive Methods and Emergent Techniques for Signal Processing and Communications, V= ol 40, Issue 1, pp. 21-37, October 1994.

Conferen= ce papers

[C39] Andreu Urruela, Alba Pagès and Jaume Riba, “Divide-and-conquer based closed-form position estimation for A= OA and TDOA measurements”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2006, Toulouse (France), 14-19 May 2006<= o:p>

[C38] Andreu Urruela, Helena Morata and Jaume Ri= ba, NLOS mitigation based on a Trellis Sea= rch for Wireless Location, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2005, New York, USA, = June 2005.

[C37] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, Efficient mobile location from time measurements with unknown variances in dynamic scenarios, The 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 20= 04, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.

[C36] Jaume Riba, Impact of symbol transition density on timing estimation, The 2= 004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPA= WC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.

[C35] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, Novel closed-form ML position estimato= r for hyperbolic location, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2004, II-149 to II-152, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), May 2004.

[C34] Jaume Riba and Andreu Urruela, A non-line-of-sight mitigation techniq= ue based on ML-detection, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Spe= ech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2004, II-153 to II-156, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), May 2004.

[C33] Jaume Riba and Francisco Barcelo (Fulvio Sansone, Monique Gibeaux, Cyrille Manente, Sergio Di Girolamo), Innovative hybridized GNSS and cellular positioning technology for high performance location based services, 10= th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, Madr= id (Spain), November 2003.

[C32] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, A novel estimator and theoretical limi= ts for in-car radiolocation, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2003 – Fall, Orlando (Florida, USA), October 2003.

[C31] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, A novel estimator and performance boun= d for time propagation and Doppler based radio-location, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2003, <= /span>Hong Kong, April 2003.

[C30] Jaume Riba and Andreu Urruela, A robust multipath mitigation techniqu= e for time of arrival estimation, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2= 002 – Fall, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), September 2002.

[C29] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, Data compression algorithm in localiza= tion problems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2002 – Fall, 1297-1301 (vol. 3), Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), September 2002.

[C28] Jaume Riba, Nicolas Bourdeau and Monique Gibeaux, Hybridized GPS and GSM positioning technology: high performances for Location Based Services, = IST Mobile & Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002, Thessalonica (= Greece), June 2002.

[C27] Gregori Vázquez, Xavier Villares and Jaume Riba, Optimal Quadratic NDA Synchronization (Invited Paper), Sesimbra (Portugal), October 2001.

[C26] Jaume Riba and Josep Sala, The Acatel 9343 DVB-OBP Product: An On-Board Proces= sor for Digital Television and Internet Data, Seventh International Worksho= p on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Sesimbra (Portugal), October 2001.

[C25] Meritxell Lamarca, Jaume Riba, Josep Sala, Gregori Vazquez and Xavi Villares, A Digital On-Board Receive Chain for a D= VB On Board Processing System, Seventh International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Sesimbra (Portugal), October 2001.

[C24] Xavi Villares, Gregori Vázquez and = Jaume Riba, Fourth Order Non-Data-Aided Synchronization, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2001, 2345 -2348 vol.4, Salt Lake City (Uta= h), May 2001.

[C23] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Parameter estimation of binary CPM sig= nals, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2001, 2561-2561. Vol. 4., Salt Lake City (Utah), August 2000.

[C22] Meritxell Lamarca, Jaume Riba, Josep Sala, Gregori Vazquez and Xavi Villares, = DVB-Forward: A Digital Television / Internet Payload, 19th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC’01), Toulouse (France), April 2001.

[C21] Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and J= aume Riba, Joint Synchronization and Sym= bol Detection in Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems, Proc. of 10th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing. SSAP'00, 68= 7-691, Pocono Manor, PA (USA), August 2000.

[C20] Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and J= aume Riba, Minimum Conditioned Variance = (MCV) propagation delay estimation for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems, Proc. of= 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Special Session: Statistical and Array Signal Processing. SCI'00, 230-235 (Vol. 6), Orlando, FL (USA), July 2000.

[C19] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Non-Data-Aided Frequency Offset and Sy= mbol Timing Estimation for Binary CPM: Performance Bounds, Proc. Internation= al Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2000, 2549-2552, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2000.

[C18] Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and J= aume Riba, Near-Far Resistant CML Propag= ation Delay Estimation and Multi-User Detection for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems<= /i>, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 1999 – Fall, 2979-2983. Vol= . 5, Amsterdam, September 1999.

[C17] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Conditional Maximum Likelihhod Timing Recovery, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’99, 1817-1820, Phoenix (Arizona, USA), March 1999.=

[C16] Tomé, J. Riba and M.A. Lagunas, Fast Joint Code-Frequency DS-CDMA Acquisition for LEO Satellite-Mobile Communication and Navigation, 2nd European Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems. GNSS’98, T= oulouse (France), October 1998.

[C15] Jaume Riba, Jesús Tomé and M= .A. Lagunas, Instantaneous Open-Loop Frequency Estimation Methods for Navigation Receivers, 2nd European Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, GNSS’98, Toulouse (France), October 1998.

[C14] Jaume Riba and M.A. Lagunas, Instantaneous Open-Loop Frequency Esti= mation Methods for Navigation Receivers, 6th International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Applications, DSP’98, Noordwijk (ESA/ESTEC), September 1998.

[C13] Josep Sala, Alba Pagès, Sergio. Cal= vo, Gregori Vázquez and J. Riba, A Digital Television/Multimedia Payload, 6th International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Applications, DSP’98, Noordwijk (ESA/ESTEC), September 1998.

[C12] Jaume Riba, Gregori Vázquez and Ser= gio Calvo, Conditional Maximum Likelihh= od Frequency Estimation for Staggered Modulations, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’98, 3425-3428, Seattle (Washington, USA), May 1998.

[C11] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, The SKYPLEX Demodulator ASIC, ESA Workshop on Microelectronics for Satellite Applications, Noordwijk (ESA/ESTEC), December 1996.

[C10] Sergio Calvo, Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, CDMA Synchronizatio= n in Near-Far Environments, ACTS Mobile Communications Submit, 186-194, <= st1:City>Granada (Spain), November 1996.

[C9] Miguel Ángel Rey, Jaume Riba and Gre= gori Vázquez, A Digital On-Board demodulator for the SKYPLEX DVB System, Fifth ESA International Worksho= p on Digital Signal Procesing Techniques Applied to Space Communications, 3.23-3= .38, September 1996.

[C8] Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, Robust Beamforming = for Interference Rejection in Mobile Communications, European Signal Proces= sing Conference, EUSIPCO’96, 935-938, Trieste (Italy), September 1996.

[C7] Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, Robust Data Detecti= on in Asynchronous DS-CDMA in the Presence of Frequency Timing Uncertainty, 8= th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Corfú (Greece), June 1996.

[C6] Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg, Gregori Vázquez and Miguel Ángel Lagunas, Signal Selective DOA Tracking for Multiple Moving Targets, Inte= rnational Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’96, 2559-2562, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), May 1996.

[C5] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Synchronization in Non-Geostationary Satellite to = Mobile Communications, RACE Mobile Telecommunications Workshop, 585-589, = Amsterdam, May 1994.=

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[C4] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Recursive Bayes Risk Parameters Estima= tion form the Cyclic Autocorrelation Matrix, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’94, Adelaida (Austral= ia), 409-412. Vol. 4, April 1994.

[C3] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Joint Parameters Estimation Based on Non-Linear Transforms, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 14-19, Nicosia (Chipre), July 1993.<= o:p>

[C2] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Adaptive Joint Frequency & Timing Estimation Exploiting the Cyclostationary Property, Adaptive Methods and Emergent Techniques for Signal Processing and Communications, 154-161, Bayo= na (Spain), June 1993.

[C1] Gregori Vázquez, Jaume Riba, Maritxe= ll Lamarca, Josep Sala and Mari Luz de Mateo, Zero-Error Detection Algorithms and Parallel Processing for Frequency and Timing Estimation, 3rd International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques Applied to Space Communication, Noordwijk ) (ESA/ESTEC), Septemb= er 1992.

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Jaume Riba, Andreu Urruela, Francisco Barcel&oac= ute; and Israel Martin, Method for local= izing a mobile station in an unsynchronized mobile network, Property: Bouygues Telecom (France) and DAI Telecom (Italy) Number: FR04/08137. = July 22, 2004.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sex: Male

Birth date: July= 20, 1966.

Other: diver from 1996 to today and forever.

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