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Contact: fjlm (at) ugr.es

Bio

F. Javier Lopez Martinez received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the University of Malaga, Spain, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with the Wireless Systems Lab, Stanford University, between 2012-2014. He was a Visiting Researcher with the University College London, in 2010, and Queen's University Belfast, in 2018. He is an Associate Professor (on leave) with the Communication Engineering Department, University of Malaga, and an EMERGIA Research Professor with the Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, University of Granada.

He has received several research awards, including the Best Paper Award from the Communication Theory Symposium at the IEEE Globecom 2013, the Outstanding Service Award by the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee in 2022, and Exemplary Reviewer Certificates for IEEE Communications Letters (2014, 2019), IEEE Transactions on Communications (2014, 2016, 2019), and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021). He has been an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of wireless communications, between 2017-2022. Since 2023, he is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. His research interests focus on wireless channel modeling, physical layer security, and signal processing for communications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

News

  1. New group member
    (18.09.23) Dr. Santiago Fernández will join our group at University of Granada as a postdoctoral researcher in October’23. He will be working on signal processing techniques for 6G communications. Welcome Santi!

  2. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (13.09.23) Our paper “Copula-based Performance Analysis for Fluid Antenna Systems under Arbitrary Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  3. New paper accepted at IEEE TWC
    (11.09.23) Our paper “The Multi-Cluster Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  4. New paper accepted at IEEE COMM-MAG
    (12.06.23) Our paper “Enabling Intelligent Omni-Surfaces in the Polarization Domain: Principles, Implementation and Applications” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Magazine.

  5. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (07.06.23) Our paper “RIS-Aided Communications over dirty MAC: Capacity region and Outage Probability” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  6. New paper accepted at IEEE WCL
    (28.05.23) Our paper “Joint User Scheduling and Precoding for XL-MIMO Systems with Imperfect CSI” was accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

  7. New paper accepted at IEEE TVT
    (02.05.23) Our paper “Joint Distance and Angles Distribution in Finite Wireless Networks” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  8. New group member
    (25.04.23) Gonzalo Anaya has joined our group at University of Granada as an associate researcher in April’23. He will finalize his PhD after the summer, and will work on multiuser XL-MIMO and Dynamic Metasurface Arrays for 6G. Welcome Gonzalo!

  9. New group member
    (10.03.23) Dr. Hadi Hashemi has joined our group at University of Granada as a Postdoctoral researcher in April’23. He will work on communication theoretic aspects of RIS-assisted communications and NTN-related use cases. Welcome Hadi!

  10. Farewell
    (19.01.23) Group member Dr. Maryam Olyaee will be leaving our team in University of Granada, to join our group section at University of Málaga as a Principal Investigator for the project “ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN RIS-ASSISTED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS”, in Feb’23. Congrats Maryam on your new appointment!

  11. New paper accepted at IEEE ICC 2023
    (18.01.23) Our paper “The IFTR Fading Model: Statistical Characterization and Empirical Validation” was accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023, Wireless Communication Symposium.

  12. New paper accepted at IEEE TVT
    (04.12.22) Our paper “The fluctuating two-ray fading model with independent specular components” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  13. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (27.11.22) Our paper “Leakage Subspace Precoding and Scheduling for Physical Layer Security in Multi-User XL-MIMO Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  14. Outstanding Service Award
    (17.11.22) I received the 2022's IEEE Communications Society “Outstanding Service Award” from the Communication Theory Technical Committee.

  15. New paper accepted at IEEE TIFS
    (27.09.22) Our paper “The Impact of Side Information on Physical Layer Security under Correlated Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

  16. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (18.09.22) Our paper “Physical Layer Security of RIS-Assisted Communications under Electromagnetic Interference” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  17. New group member
    (30.08.22) Dr. Pablo Ramirez Espinosa will join our group at University of Granada as a Maria Zambrano Postdoctoral researcher in Oct’22. He will work in modeling and applications of dynamic metasurface arrays for 6G communications. Welcome Pablo!

  18. New group member
    (15.08.22) Dr. Maryam Olyaee will join our group at University of Granada as a Postdoctoral researcher in Sept’22. She will work on communication theoretic aspects of RIS-assisted communications. Welcome Maryam!

  19. 10th Spanish Workshop on Signal Processing, Communication and Information Theory
    (26.07.22) We organize a new edition of the workshop in Granada, Nov 21-22 2022, with Sundeep Rangan (NYU), Joakim Jaldén (KTH) and Fernando Pérez-Cruz (ETHZ/Swiss Data Center) as invited speakers. Stay tuned for more details!

  20. New paper accepted at TWC
    (06.05.22) Our paper Alternative Formulations for the Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  21. New position
    (18.04.22) I started a new position at the Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Universidad de Granada.