Affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES
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Albert Guillén i Fàbregas was born in Barcelona in 1974. In 1999 he received the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Politecnico di Torino, respectively, and the Ph.D. in Communication Systems from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2004.
Since 2011 he has been a Research Professor of the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, where he was a Reader and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He has held appoinments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency (ESA), Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia, as well as visiting appointments at Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications (Paris), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of South Australia, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Texas A&M University in Qatar. His research interests are in information theory, coding theory and communication theory.