Albert Guillén i Fàbregas is a Professor at the
University of Cambridge, a Fellow of
Emmanuel College and a
Distinguished Researcher (part-time) at
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He
received the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree
from
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and
Politecnico di Torino, respectively in 1999,
and the PhD from
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004.
He has held appointments at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia,
European Space Agency,
Institut Eurécom,
University of South Australia, and
Universitat Pompeu
Fabra (
ICREA Research Professor). He is a recipient of Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Proof of Concept
Grants from the
European Research Council. He is a
Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Editor of
Foundations and Trends in
Communications and Information Theory (Now Publishers) and previously of the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory (2013-2020) and IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications (2007-2011). He was a General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona and a Technical Program Committee
(TPC) co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Sevilla, the 2023 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory, Taiwan and the 2025 London Symposium on
Information Theory, Cambridge.
