Gonzalo Vázquez Vilar
Professor Gonzalo Vázquez Vilar
Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar received a Dual Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering with majors in information technology and electronics in 2004 and 2005, respectively, from the University of Vigo, Spain, the Master of Science Degree from Stanford University, U.S., in 2008, and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2011. In 2011-2014 he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Since 2014 he has been with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar has held appointments as visiting researcher at Stanford University, U.S., University of Cambridge, U.K., and Princeton University, U.S.
His research interests range from signal processing to information theory for communications. His current focus is the derivation of fundamental limits for communication systems in the finite block-length regime. He was principal investigator in one research project granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and he was involved in 12 research projects and contracts. He has co-authored 14 articles in JCR journals, including the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, and he has co-authored 31 articles in proceedings of international conferences.
Dr. Vazquez-Vilar has served as the Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Spain Chapter in the period 2017-2019 and he has been involved in the organization of several international symposiums, including the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Barcelona, Spain) and the 2017 European School of Information Theory (Madrid, Spain). He has contributed as reviewer and Technical Program Committee member in several international journals and conferences. Currently, he belongs to the Editorial Board of Signal Processing, Elsevier.
Throughout his career Dr. Vazquez-Vilar has received multiple awards and scholarships in competitive calls. He has received the Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera in 2004, Beca Posgrado Extranjero Fundación Barrié de la Maza in 2006, Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI) grant in 2008, Gradiant Prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Communication and Information Technologies in 2011, the Formación Posdoctoral grant in 2013 and the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (Juan de la Cierva Incorporación) in 2015.