Curriculum Vitae J. Riba

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Jaume Riba Sagarra

 

Work Address:

 

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

c/ Jordi Girona 1-3

Campus Nord-UPC

Building: D-5

Office: D5-006

Barcelona, 08034

Tel: (+34) 93 401 74 04

Fax: (+34) 93 401 64 47

E_mail: jaume.riba@upc.edu

URL: http://gps-tsc.upc.es/comm/jriba/riba.html

 

Updated: January 2006

 

 

EDUCATION

 

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

                                                                                                                              

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

 

Language: Spanish (castellan), Catalan and English.

 

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 University of Catalonia (UPC).

                                                                                                            

Oct. 1992 - Dic. 1995: Assistant professor (type II) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación de Barcelona (ETSETB) of the Technical University of Catalonia (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))

                                                                                                                   

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

 

Sep. 1999 – present: Coordinator of courses 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 2004).

 

 

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 Theory and Communications (TSC), UPC.

 

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

 

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

 

 

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

 

Beamforming, Array Processing, Statistical Signal Processing, Digital Synchronization, Communications and Wireless Location.

 

 

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 Barcelona. Barcelona (Spain), January 1999.

 

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 Josep 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 with 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 2007)

 

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 International Journal on Navigation and Observation (IJNO), (since Nov 2006 to present).

 

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 Department 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 processing, digital communications, array processing and digital synchronization. In 1997 he received the PhD degree in telecommunications engineering from the Technical 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, being the principal investigator.

 

Dr. Riba has teaching experience since 1992 in the areas of: Analog Communications, Digital Communications (theory and laboratory), Filter Design and Signal Processing. Doctorate teaching experience 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 related 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).

                            

Dr. Riba has research experience from 1992 in the areas of: Beamforming, Array Processing, Digital Synchronization, Communications and Wireless Location. On these areas, Dr. Riba has published one book chapter, 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 Space 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 Community within the V framework on Information Society Technology (IST) (from 2001 to 2005); two projects funded by the European Space Agency (from 2000 to 2002); and one national project (2005) with a national enterprise. The main scientific areas 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 , Signal 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, July 2000.

                                               

Journals

 

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

 

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

 

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

                                                                          

[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 Award 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 Frequency 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, Vol 40, Issue 1, pp. 21-37, October 1994.

 

Conference papers

 

[C39] Andreu Urruela, Alba Pagčs and Jaume Riba, “Divide-and-conquer based closed-form position estimation for AOA and TDOA measurements”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2006,  Toulouse (France), 14-19 May 2006

 

[C38] Andreu Urruela, Helena Morata and Jaume Riba, NLOS mitigation based on a Trellis Search 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 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.

 

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

 

[C35] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, Novel closed-form ML position estimator 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 technique based on ML-detection, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech 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, 10th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, Madrid (Spain), November 2003.

 

[C32] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, A novel estimator and theoretical limits 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 bound for time propagation and Doppler based radio-location, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2003, Hong Kong, April 2003.

 

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

 

[C29] Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, Data compression algorithm in localization 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 Processor for Digital Television and Internet Data, Seventh International Workshop 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 DVB 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 (Utah), May 2001.

 

[C23] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Parameter estimation of binary CPM signals, 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 Jaume Riba, Joint Synchronization and Symbol Detection in Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems, Proc. of 10th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing. SSAP'00, 687-691, Pocono Manor, PA (USA), August 2000.

 

[C20] Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and Jaume 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 Symbol Timing Estimation for Binary CPM: Performance Bounds, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2000, 2549-2552, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2000.

 

[C18] Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and Jaume Riba, Near-Far Resistant CML Propagation Delay Estimation and Multi-User Detection for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems, 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, Toulouse (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 Estimation 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 Pagčs, Sergio. Calvo, 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 Sergio Calvo, Conditional Maximum Likelihhod 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 Synchronization in Near-Far Environments, ACTS Mobile Communications Submit, 186-194, Granada (Spain), November 1996.       

 

[C9] Miguel Ángel Rey, Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, A Digital On-Board demodulator for the SKYPLEX DVB System, Fifth ESA International Workshop 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 Processing Conference, EUSIPCO’96, 935-938, Trieste (Italy), September 1996.

 

[C7] Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, Robust Data Detection in Asynchronous DS-CDMA in the Presence of Frequency Timing Uncertainty, 8th 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, International 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.

                                              

[C4] Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, Recursive Bayes Risk Parameters Estimation form the Cyclic Autocorrelation Matrix, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’94, Adelaida (Australia), 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.

 

[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, Bayona (Spain), June 1993.

 

[C1] Gregori Vázquez, Jaume Riba, Maritxell 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), September 1992.

 

Patents

 

Jaume Riba, Andreu Urruela, Francisco Barceló and Israel Martin, Method for localizing 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.