Work Experience
Academic (Research/Teaching):
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07/2014 - : Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester. I am also affiliated with the Institute for Data Science.
08/2013 - 05/2014: Visiting scholar in the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. Working under the supervision of Prof. Christos Faloutsos.
06/2012 - 05/2014: Research associate with the Signal Processing in Networking and Communications (SPiNCOM) group, ECE Department and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. Working under the supervision of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis.
09/2006 - 05/2012: Graduate research assistant position in the Signal Processing in Networking and Communications (SPiNCOM) group, ECE Department, University of Minnesota. Working under the supervision of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis.
07/2003 - 12/2006: Research/teaching assistant position in the Telecommunications Department, Instituto de Ingenieria Electrica, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. I have taught the following undergraduate level courses:
- "Linear Systems I" in 2003-2006. Electrical Engineering major.
- "Linear Systems II" in 2003-2006. Electrical Engineering major.
- "Electrotechnique I" in 2005-2006. Chemical/Mechanical Engineering majors.
Professional Affiliations and Services:
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Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since Nov. 2015.
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Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing since Nov. 2012.
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Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Elsevier Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
Regular reviewer of conference papers submitted to e.g., ICASSP, ICC, SmartGridComm.
IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Communications Society member.
Member of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA).
Industry:
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01/2004 - 07/2006: Asea Brown Boveri S.A. (ABB), Montevideo, Uruguay. Systems/Application engineer in the Automation Technologies Division. Programming and commissioning of distributed control systems (DCS). Major experience on AC/DC motor+drive based applications, digital fieldbuses (Profibus) and industrial TCP-IP networks.
08/2002 - 08/2003: Proyectos Engineering-Consultancy, Montevideo, Uruguay. Member of the Production Scheduling team, whose main responsibility was the implantation of S-Plan (primarily on the paper industry), a finite capacity scheduling software.