Prof. Roman Lara-Cueva

Román A. Lara-Cueva (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electronic and telecommunications engineering from Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, in 2001; the M.Sc. degree in wireless systems and related technologies from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2005, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication networks for developing countries from Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, Spain, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His is currently a Full Professor with Departamento de Eléctrica, Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas—ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador, where he founded and heads the Ad Hoc Network Research Center (CIRAD) and the Smart Systems Research Group (WiCOM-Energy) and has collaborated as an external professor at King Juan Carlos University, Spain, since 2017. He received the Prize to the Best Junior Researcher from Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas—ESPE in 2014, and Best Researcher from IEEE Ecuador Section in 2017. He has authored more than 50 referred and conference articles on topics related to wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. He is the author or coauthor in 15 publicly funded research projects and directed 9 of them. His main research interests include digital signal processing and machine learning theory applied to wireless communications systems and volcano seismology, also in the scope of the internet of things by developing smart gadgets for smart cities.