MIGUEL ANGEL LAGUNAS

MIGUEL ANGEL LAGUNAS (IEEE S'73-M'78-SM'89-F'97) was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1951. He received the Telecommunications Engineer degree in 1973 from UPM, Madrid, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from UPB, Barcelona. During 1971-1973, he was a Research Assistant at the Semiconductor Lab ETSIT, Madrid; during 1973-1979, a Teacher Assistant in Network Synthesis and Semiconductor Electronics; during 1979-1982, an Associate Professor of digital signal processing. Since 1983, he has been a Full Professor, teaching courses in signal processing, array processing and digital communications. He was Project Leader of high-speed SCMA (1987-1989) and ATM (1994-1995) cable network. He is also Co-director of the first projects for the European Spatial Agency and the European Union, providing engineering demonstration models on smart antennas for satellite communications using DS and FH systems (1986) and antenna arrays for mobile communications GSM (Tsunami, 1994). His research activity is devoted to spectral estimation, DSP on communications and array-MIMO processing. His technical activities are in advanced front-ends for digital communications combining spatial with frequency-time and coding diversity. Dr. Lagunas was Vice- President for Research of UPC from 1986-1989 and Vice-Secretary General for Research, CICYT, Spain from 1995-1996. Currently, he is Director of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) in Barcelona. He is a member-at- large of Eurasip. He is an elected member of the Academy of Engineers of
Spain and of the Academy of Science and Art of Barcelona. He was a Fullbright scholar at the University of Boulder, CO.