Alonso Silva's Homepage: Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

17.09.2012 - Present	Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent and Researcher at the Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS).
01.09.2011 - 31.08.2012	Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley - EECS Department, Berkeley, CA, USA, working with Professor Jean Walrand.
01.09.2010 - 31.08.2011	Postdoctoral Researcher at INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt - Hipercom Project-Team, Rocquencourt, France, working with Professor Philippe Jacquet.
01.03.2010 - 31.05.2010	Research Consultant/Intern at Bell Labs - Mathematics of Networks and Communications Department, New Jersey, USA, working with Professor Iraj Saniee.
15.02.2007 - 14.06.2010	Ph.D. at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis - Maestro Project-Team, Sophia-Antipolis, France, working with Professor Eitan Altman.

Academic Cursus

2010	Ph.D. in Physics from the École Supérieure d'Électricité (for details, click here).
2006	Mathematical Engineer at the Universidad de Chile.
2004	Bachelor in Mathematics at the Universidad de Chile.

Awards

Best Paper Award for the paper "Novel Market Approach for Locally Balancing Renewable Energy Production and Flexible Demand,"
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Dresden, Germany, October 23-26, 2017.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Green Base Station Placement for Microwave Backhaul Links,"
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), Casablanca, Morocco, May 9-12, 2017.
Best Paper Award Nominee for the paper "On the Spectral Gap of Random Geometric Graphs and Their Mobility Properties,"
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Beijing, China, December 16-18, 2011.
Best Student Paper Award for the paper "The Space Frontier: Physical Limits of Multiple Antenna Information Transfer,"
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation, Methodologies, and Tools (Valuetools), Athens, Greece, October 20-24, 2008.

Current Ph.D. student

01.01.2017-Present

Dong Quan Vu

Current Intern

12.02.2018-04.05.2018

Gioconda Herrera (Master 2 Internship)

Alumni

16.01.2017-15.07.2017	Susana Iglesias Rey (Master 2 Internship)
01.04.2016- 30.06.2016	Ivana Bachmann (Master 2 Internship)

Visiting Positions

10.11.2013 - 23.11.2013	Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, working with Prof. Longbo Huang.
22.11.2010 - 03.12.2010	Visiting Academic at the Department of Computing - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, working with Prof. Bernard Mans.
26.09.2007 - 12.10.2007	Visiting Researcher at the CSL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, working with Prof. Tamer Basar.

Collective Responsabilities

TPC member of the 16th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), taking place on May 7-11, 2018, in Shanghai, China.
TPC member of the 3rd Spring School on Networks (SSN), taking place on October 19-20, 2017, in Puc&oaccute;n, Chile.
TPC member of the 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), taking place on May 15-19, 2017, in Paris, France.
TPC member of the 3rd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet) taking place on May 9-12, 2017, in Casablanca, Morocco.
TPC member of the 7th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets) taking place on May 9, 2017, in Knoxville, TN, USA.
TPC member of the 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet) taking place on June 2-4, 2015, in Casablanca, Morocco.
TPC member of the International Workshop on Physics Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks (PHYSCOMNET) to be held alongside The 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), taking place on May 29, 2015, in Bombay, India.
TPC member of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, taking place between August 10-13, 2015, in Aluva, Kochi, India.
Chair of the Regular Session "Topics in Network Theory" of the 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Illinois, IL, USA, October 1-3, 2014.
Technical Committee of The International Journal for the Computer and Telecommunications Industry.
TPC member of the International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NETGCOOP), which took place between October 29-31, 2014, in Trento, Italy.
TPC member of the International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, which took place between October 23-25, 2014, in Hefei, China.
TPC member of the IEEE ICC 2014 Workshop on Small Cell and 5G Networks, taking place in June 10, 2014, in Sydney, Australia.
TPC member of the International Workshop on Green Cognitive Communications and Computer Networking (GCCCN), which took place in April 27 and May 2nd, 2014, in Toronto, Canada.
TPC member of the International Workshop on Self-Organization in Heterogeneous Networks (ISONET), which took place in June 9-13, 2013, in Budapest, Hungary.
TPC member of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing (MobiCC), which took place in August 15, 2012, in Beijing, China.
TPC member of the International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), which took place in November 14-15, 2011, in Maryland, USA.
Professor Merouane Debbah and I were organizers of the special session Optimal Transport and Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks at PIMRC 2010, 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, which took place in September 26-29, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey.
I have been reviewer for the journals AIMS Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Elsevier Computer Communications, and International Conferences (American Control Conference, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Wireless Days, GameSec, etc.).