I graduated

from Universita' di Napoli Federico II and then got my MS and PhD degrees at Caltech. I was then a post-doc at UC Berkeley for two years, and I have been a frequent visitor of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. My Erdös Number is 2.


I teach:

ECE45 Circuits and Systems

ECE158A Data Networks I

ECE257C Stochastic Wireless Networks Models

ECE287C Special Topics in Communication Theory and Systems


I serve as advisor for:

Lorenzo Coviello, PhD student, (Social Networks).

Nikhil Karamchandani, post-doc (joint with UCLA).


My Alumni are:

Nikhil Karamchandani, PhD 2011, now a post-doc joint with UCLA, thesis on computation over networks.

Rathinakumar Appuswamy, PhD 2011, now at IBM Research Almaden, thesis on computation over networks.

Ehsan Ardestanizadeh, PhD 2011, now at ASSIA Inc., thesis on feedback communication.

Paolo Minero, PhD 2010, now Assistant Professor at Notre Dame, thesis on large scale wireless networks.

Kaushik Chakraborty, Post-Doc, now at Qualcomm.

Anna Martini, Post-Doc.

 

Massimo Franceschetti


Associate Professor

of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407

La Jolla, CA, 92093-0407

Phone: (858) 822-2284

Fax: (858)  534-2486



Faculty assistant: Mr. John Minan

jminan@ucsd.edu 858 534-2221


Grant Administrator: Ms. Irene Xavier ixavier@ucsd.edu 858 534-2352

My research

is in information and networks. I use approximation theory and functional analysis to study representation of information, wave propagation to study the transport of information, percolation theory and random graphs to study the structure of the network, feedback analysis to study control, and coding to study function computation over networks.

I have written

the book Random Networks for Communication together with Ronald Meester. One review appeared in MathSciNet,  another one in the Journal of Statistical Physics, and a third one in the Journal of Applied Statistics.

















 


I am affiliated with:

the Center for Information Theory and Applications (ITA),

the Center for Wireless Communication (CWC),

the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CalIT2).






Like many colleagues,

every month I receive several inquiries from perspective students, post-docs, and visitors, who wish to join my research group. It is impossible for me to respond to all of these requests, because of their sheer volume.  If you try to contact me in this regard, please do not be offended if I do not reply. The admission process for graduate students is handled by the departmental office for graduate studies.