Xavier MestreXavier Mestre received the MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1997 and 2002, respectively, and the Licentiate Degree in Mathematics in 2011. During the pursuit of his PhD, he was recipient of a 198-2001 PhD scholarship (granted by the Catalan Government) and was awarded the 2002 Rosina Ribalta second prize for the best doctoral thesis project within areas of Information Technologies and Communications by the Epson Iberica foundation. From January 1998 to December 2002, he was with UPC’s Communications Signal Processing Group, where he worked as a Research Assistant and participated actively in several European-funded projects. In January 2003 he joined the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), where he currently holds a position as a Senior Research Associate and head of the Advanced Signal and Information Processing Department. During this time, he has actively participated in multiple European projects (including the coordination of the EMPhAtiC project, in 2012-15) and in several contracts with the European Space Agency and the local industry. He is IEEE Senior member and elected member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multi-channel Signal Processing technical committee (2013-present). He has been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2008-11, 2015-present), technical chair of the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2011 and general co-chair of the European Wireless Conference 2014. Read More Read Less