Mauro Fadda is Associate Professor in Telecommunications at the Engineering Department of the University of Sassari. Previously, he worked as assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari. He received a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2013 from the University of Cagliari. He spent a period of visiting PhD student at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) in Spain in 2012. In 2020 he was short visiting professor at the Department of Electronics and Computers of the Transylvanian University of Brasov in Romania. He is a member of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) since 2011. From March 2020 he was elected Chair of the Italian chapter of the Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). Dr. Fadda is co-author of an extensive list of articles published in journals and international conference proceedings. He has served as chair for various international conferences and workshops. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Access magazine and Topic Editor for Sensors magazine. His research currently focuses on telecommunications issues, on cognitive radio systems, on signal processing for radio communications, on the transmission and processing of multimedia data and on state-of-the-art digital systems.