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Miguel Rodrigues

Miguel Rodrigues
Computer Science
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto
Rua Campo Alegre 1021/1055
Porto, Douro Litoral 4169-007, Portugal

Ph.D: Electrical Engineering, University College London, 2002

Thesis: Modelling and performance assessment of OFDM communication systems in the presence of non-linearities

Postdoc at Princeton: 2006 - 2007

Advisor: Sergio Verdu

Biography

Miguel Rodrigues was born in Porto, Portugal on May 30, 1975. He received the Licenciatura degree in Electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London, U.K. in 2002.

From January 2003 to September 2006, he has held postdoctoral research appointments at Cambridge University, U.K., both as a Research Associate and later as a Senior Research Associate. From September 2006 to March 2007, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, U.S.A. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto as an Assistant Professor in March 2007. He is also a Visiting Senior Researcher at University College London, U.K. His research interests include information theory, communications theory and signal processing and their applications to wireless systems and networks.

Dr. Rodrigues has been the recipient of the the Prize Engenheiro António de Almeida, the Prize Engenheiro Cristiano Spratley, and the Merit Scholarship from the University of Porto, and the best student poster prize at the 2nd IMA Conference on Mathematics in Communications. He has also been the recipient of doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian.