Stefano Galli

Stefano Galli received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy) in 1994 and 1998, respectively.

After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Galli continued as Teaching Assistant in Signal Theory at the Info-Com Dpt. of the University of Rome. In October 1998, he joined Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) in Piscataway, New Jersey, in the Broadband Networking Research Department where he is now a Senior Scientist. Dr. Galli’s main research efforts are devoted to various aspects of both wired and wireless communications, including xDSL, home networking, power line communications, wireless communications, and optical CDMA. His research interests also include detection and estimation, communications theory, and signal processing.

Dr. Galli is a Senior Member of the IEEE, has published over 70 papers, and holds several US and international patents. Dr. Galli is currently serving as Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Broadband over Power Lines. He also served as a Guest Editor for the Feature Topic "Broadband is Power: Internet Access through the Power Line Network" (IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2003), and as Co-Guest Editor for the special Issue on "Power Line Communications" of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Dr. Galli is a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences, and has served as Technical Program Committee member in many IEEE conference. He has also served as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’05), and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the General Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’06), and as the Co-Chair of the General Symposium of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom’06) ,

Dr. Galli is serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.