Xavier Costa Pérez

Xavier Costa-Pérez

ICREA Research Professor

Scientific Director at i2cat Research Center

Head of 5G/6G Networks R&D at NEC Laboratories Europe

Xavier Costa-Pérez is ICREA Research Professor, Scientific Director at the i2cat Research Center and Head of 5G/6G Networks R&D at NEC Laboratories Europe. His research focuses on the digital transformation of society driven by the interplay of mobile networks and AI. His team generates research results which are regularly published at top scientific venues, produces innovations which have received several awards for successful technology transfers, participates in major European Commission R&D collaborative projects and contributes to standardization bodies such as 3GPP, O-RAN, ETSI NFV/MEC/RIS and IETF. Xavier has experience raising funding both internally inside a company as well as externally in competitive public R&D programs. He has held multipe leadership positions both in industry and research organizations such as Deputy General Manager, Chief Researcher, Technology Board member and Scientific Advisory Board Member. As a standards delegate, he contributed to multiple standardization bodies (e.g. IEEE 802.11, 802.16, WiFi Alliance, 3GPP, ...) and was recognized in several standards as a top contributor. He has served on the Organizing Committees of several conferences (including ACM MOBICOM, IEEE INFOCOM, WCNC and Greencom), published papers of high impact and holds tens of granted patents. Currently, he is serving as Editor at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and Elsevier Computer Communications journals (COMCOM). Xavier received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona and was the recipient of a national award for his Ph.D. thesis.

NEWS

ACM MOBICOM (2023) - General Chair

Newspaper 5G article in El Mundo for MWC 2022: "El 5G ha sido específicamente diseñado para acelerar la transformación digital de las industrias". English version available here

Appearance in IEEE Spectrum article "5G Networks Are Worringly Hackable" 2022

A.Albanese, F.Devoti, V.Sciancalepore, M. Di Renzo, X. Costa-Pérez: “MARISA: A Self-configuring Metasurfaces Absorption and Reflection Solution Towards 6G”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2022.

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)– Distinguished Lecturer - 2022

18th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW) – Keynote Speaker – “AI for Future 6G Systems” - 2022

APNOMS (The 23rd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) – Distinguished Experts Panel – “AI for Operating and Managing 5G and Future 6G Systems” - 2022

AI & Big Data Congress (2022) - Organizing Committee

European Ecosystem Event on 6G (ECO6G 2022) - Moderator

Time Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings – Evaluator – 2022

IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) – Keynote Speaker – “Disruptive Technologies for Future 6G Networks” - 2021

Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) Open Days TIC – Keynote Speaker – “Disruptive Technologies for Future Wireless Systems” - 2021

European Commission 6G Summit – Speaker – “Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN): A 6G Revolution?” - 2021

Appearance of our SARDO technology in IEEE Spectrum Journal Watch article "Search-and-Rescue Drone Locates Victims By Homing in on Their Phones" 2021

Appearance of our SARDO technology in Digital Trends, Coverdrone, UAS Vision and a long etc. "A Find my iPhone with Wings" 2021

IEEE GLOBECOM – Panelist – “Challenges for 5G Deployments: Operator and Industrial Perspectives” - 2021

IEEE ComSoc EMEA Student - Industry Panels Initiative – Panelist - 2021

IEEE 5G World Forum – Panelist – “The Race to 5G is Not Yet Won: Deployment Challenges and Industry Priorities” - 2021

G.García-Avilés, A.Garcia-Saavedra, M.Gramaglia, X.Costa-Pérez, P. Serrano and A. Banchs: “Nuberu: Reliable RAN Virtualization in Shared Platforms”, ACM MOBICOM, 2021

J.A. Ayala-Romero, A. Garcia-Saavedra, X. Costa-Pérez, G. Iosifidis: “EdgeBOL: automating energy-savings for mobile edge AI”, ACM CoNEXT. 2021.

J.A. Ayala-Romero, A. Garcia-Saavedra, X. Costa-Pérez and G. Iosifidis: “Bayesian Online Learning for Energy-Aware Resource Orchestration in Virtualized RANs”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2021.

A. Okic, L. Zanzi, VINCENZO SCIANCALEPORE, A. Redondi, X. Costa-Perez: “π-ROAD: a Learn-as-You-Go Framework for On-Demand Emergency Slices in V2X Scenarios”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2021.

IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications (ISWCS 2021) - TPC Chair

International Symposium on 6G Networking (2021) - Distinguished Talks Chair

IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networks (SECON 2021) - Demo Chair

IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF 2021) – AI and ML - Track Chair

AI & Big Data Congress (2021) - Track Chair

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