My research

is in communication systems theory.

I have written

the following book together with Ronald Meester.

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 am a frequent visitor of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. My Erdös Number is 2.

I am affiliated with:

the Communication Theory and Systems group, (CTS),

the Center for Advanced Network Sciences (ANS),

the Center for Information Theory and Applications (ITA),

the Center for Wireless Communication (CWC),

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

I serve as advisor for:

Rathinakumar Appuswamy, PhD student, (Network Coding).

Ehsan Ardestani, PhD student, (Communication Networks).

Avinash Jain, PhD student (Quantum Networks).

Nikhil Karamchandani, PhD student, (Wireless communications)

Paolo Minero, PhD student, (Wireless Communications).

Anna Martini, ANS Post-Doc, (Wave propagation and MIMO)

Michel Elgannar, ANS Post-Doc (Wave propagation and MIMO)

My Alumni are:

Kaushik Chakraborty, ANS Post-Doc, now at Qualcomm.