Romano Fantacci
Candidate's Statement
An important goal of ComSoc is to ensure top level quality of its publications and conferences and to play a major role in innovation for industry and academia. A major challenge in an information world that is very distributed is for ComSoc’s outstanding publications and technical committees to remain a focal point where members can turn to capture emerging technologies and trends. Furthermore, this is no longer just a matter of technical excellence. This needs to be coupled with relevance to industry; and, therefore, we need to add the business view to the technical view.
If elected, I will help our Society fulfill these challenges and become a better source of technical information. I will strive to increase the Communications Society’s globalization efforts to promote cooperation with Sister Societies and also work to enable interdisciplinary collaborations leveraging on local chapters’ activities.
Biography
Romano Fantacci, received the Engineering Laurea and Ph.D. degrees from Università di Firenze, Italy, in 1982 and 1987, respectively. After joining the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni of the same University as an assistant professor, he was appointed associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1999. He is the author of more than 150 papers published in prestigious communication science journals and holds some patents. He has had an active role in IEEE and ComSoc for several years. Romano guest edited special issues in IEEE journals and magazines and served as symposium chair of several IEEE conferences. He received theAEI/IEEE “Renato Mariani” Award in 1982, IEE IERE Benefactor premium in 1990, and IEEE ComSoc Award Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications in 2002. Romano is currently serving as Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and asArea Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Since 2005 he is an IEEE Fellow.
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