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Bio

Francisco Monteiro is from Lisbon, Portugal. He’s married to Fotini Hadjittofi, a Greek Cypriot national, an academic in Classics, and they have one daughter, Adriana, born in 2013.

He obtained his PhD degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2011. Previously, he received the Licenciatura in Electrical and Computer Engineering (5 years degree, telecommunications profile) and the MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2 years degree, also telecommunications profile), both from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, in 1998 and 2003, respectively.

He is now a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (in the Radio Systems Group) and a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

From April 2005 to October 2009 he was in Cambridge as a member of Fitzwilliam College (where he was a College Senior Scholar in 2007/2008), and a member of the Digital Technology Group of The Computer Laboratory (and at the same time also a member of the Department of Engineering, Division of Information Engineering). From 1998 until 2000 he was a Teaching Assistant (Monitor and Assistente Estagiário) at the Department of Electrical and Computer in Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. From 2003 until 2012 he was an Assistant Lecturer (Assistente)  in the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

He was a Visiting Researcher at the School of Computing and Communications of the Lancaster University, UK, for 1 month (July 2014), funded by a COST grant, and he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto for 4 months (December 2007 to February 2008 and June/July 2008) working under the guidance of prof. Frank Kschischang, with scholarships from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Cambridge Philosophical Society. In 2019 he was a sabbatical visiting researcher in the Centre for Wireless Communications, MTC Group, University of Oulu, Finland (5 weeks) and a sabatical visiting researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona (also 5 weeks), in the Wireless Communications Group, hosted by prof. Angel Lozano, with a sabbatical scholarship funded by Fundación Endesa and Fundación Carolina (Spain).   

He received for two years in a row (in 2014 and in 2015)  Exemplary Reviewer Awards, from the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. The award  is given to the top 3% reviewers who have performed reviews considered both relevant and timely reviews by the associate editors, consistently for a number of papers over that year.

In October 2007 Francisco received the Best Paper Award (Conference Prize) at the European Conference on Wireless Technology 2007 in Munich, Germany.

He also won the Young Engineer Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Wireless Technology in October 2004, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

His M.Sc. thesis was awarded the 3rd place at the Innovation Young Engineer Prize, by the Ordem dos Engenheiros in December 2002.
In March 2007 the Portuguese Public Television included him in one of the documentaries "Scientist Generation" (which presented bio profiles of young Portuguese researchers).

His research has always been focused on digital communications physical layer involving channel coding, digital modulation, detection theory, low complexity detection algorithms, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems, massive MIMO, physical layer network coding, and interference suppression for full-duplex radio. His M.Sc. thesis dealt with low complexity detection of continuous phase modulation and in his PhD thesis focused on the geometry of lattice detection algorithms for MIMO spatial multiplexing.

He is the co-editor of the book "MIMO Processing for 4G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Evolution", published by CRC Press / Taylor and Francis Group, June 2014, USA, with a relevant list of contribuitors.

In November 2015 he was an invited Keynote Speaker at the DARNEC 2015 conference.

He acts as a frequent reviewer for a number of IEEE journals and conferences, and has been serving in the organizing committee of relevant IEEE and EURASIP conferences (organising a number of special sessions and tutorials), besides serving as member several conference technical program committees.

In 2016/2017 he was the Lead Guest Editor of a special issue on Network Coding of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

In 2018 he will be organising in Lisbon the ISWCS' 18 - The 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, as one of the General Chairs.

Francisco is a Life Member of Fitzwilliam College, a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, a Member of the IEEE, a Junior Member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and also a member of several student societies related with the promotion of science and mathematics.

My world

My wife Dr. Fotini Hadjittofi, [CEC page] [DEC page] (where she is Head of Department since Dec. 2023) [.edu page], our Adriana (born in 2013) classical music, opera in particular; and history of science and technology.

Non academic fun stuff

  • 2007 – Featured in the Portuguese public television in one of the documentaries “Scientist Generation” (which presented bio profiles of young Portuguese researchers). Introduction and videos (also here: Part1 , Part2)