Josep Font-Segura

Josep Font-Segura received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, in 2014. In 2008-2009, he was research assistant with the information signal processing group at Columbia University, New York. Since 2014 he is research associate at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, with the information theory and coding group.

Dr Font-Segura is a member of the IEEE. He is recipient of a ''la Caixa'' fellowship for graduate studies in the United States, a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications, and a Juan de la Cierva postdoc fellowship from the Spanish government. He was member of the organizing committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in 2016, and he was vice-chair of the Spanish chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2018-2019 He also contributed as reviewer in several journal and conference publications of the IEEE society.

Dr Font-Segura's research interests are in the areas of information theory, digital communications and signal processing. He is author or co-author of 8 journal articles, 21 refereed articles in conferences and 9 technical reports. His scientific output has more than 210 citations in the fields of cognitive radio, multiuser communication, and random coding.