Marco Mezzavilla

Marco Mezzavilla is Research Faculty at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and co-founder of Pi-Radio, a spin-off company of NYU that develops software defined radios (SDRs). He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. at the University of Padua, Italy, all in Electrical Engineering. He held visiting research positions at the NEC Network Laboratories in Heidelberg (Germany), at the Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya (CTTC) in Barcelona (Spain), and at Qualcomm Research in San Diego (US). He currently leads multiple research projects that focus on next-generation radio access technologies for 5G and beyond. He served as co-chair and reviewer for several IEEE and ACM conferences, and as guest editor of prestigious journals and magazines. His current research interests lie at the intersection between communications, cybersecurity, and robotics. He is a senior member of IEEE.