Curriculum

Academic Positions

• • Mar. 2021 - today :  Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

  • Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2021 : Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD B), Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

  • May 2015 - Feb. 2018 : Assistant Professor (RTD A), Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy.

  • Mar. 2012 - Apr. 2015 : Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

  • Sep. 2010 - Apr. 2011 : Visiting researcher, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, USA.

  • Nov. 2008 - Oct. 2011 : PhD student, DIET Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Short Bio

Paolo Di Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (magna cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering in 2008 and 2012, respectively, both from Sapienza University of Rome. His advisor was Prof. Sergio Barbarossa. 

From September 2010 to April 2011, he held a research appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, under the supervision of Prof. Ali H. Sayed.

From March 2012 to April 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome. His research was supported by three European research projects: FREEDOM, on femtocell networks; SIMTISYS, on moving target detection through satellite constellations; and TROPIC, on distributed computing, storage and radio resource allocation over cooperative femtocells.

From May 2015 to February 2018, he was Assistant Professor (RTD A) in the Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy. From March 2018 to February 2021, he was a Tenure Track Assistant Professor (RTD B) in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

His primary research interests lie in the areas of signal processing theory and methods, adaptation and learning, distributed optimization, (beyond)graph signal processing, wireless edge intelligence, and goal-oriented semantic communications.

He is the technical manager of the SNS-JU European Project 6G-GOALS, and the Principal Investigator of CNIT-Sapienza Research Unit in the H2020 European Project RISE 6G.

He is recipient of the 2022 EURASIP Early Career Award, with citation "for contributions to the field of distributed signal processing, optimization, and learning over networks". He has received three best student conference paper awards, which were sponsored by the IEEE signal processing society and the European signal processing society (EURASIP). He was also recipient of the 2012 GTTI award for the best doctoral thesis in information and communication technologies.

He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and, previously, for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks and for the  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He was Lead Guest Editor of the special issue entitled "Optimization, Learning, and Adaptation over Networks" in the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing in December 2017.

He is IEEE senior member. He is a member of the IEEE signal processing society and of the European signal processing society. Since November 2018, he is a member of the Big Data Special Interest Group (BIG DATA SIG) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

Scientific Activities

• Editorial Activities 

  • Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2024-2026.

  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2022-2024.

  • Guest Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Dec. 2022, Dec. 2023.

  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2019-2022.

  • Associate Editor for the Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2016-2019.

  • Lead guest editor of the special issue entitled "Optimization, Learning, and Adaptation over Networks" in the Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2017.

• Reviewer Activities - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Elsevier Signal Processing, Eurasip Journal on Advances on Signal Processing, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE SPAWC IEEE CAMSAP, IEEE SSP, IEEE SAM, EUSIPCO.

• Organization of Scientific Meetings

  • Special session chair 

    • Topological Signal Processing and Learning, Asilomar 2024, Pacific Grove. 

    • Signal processing advances for semantic and goal-oriented communications, IEEE SPAWC 2024, Lucca.

    • Signal Processing over Graphs and Topological Domains, EUSIPCO 2024, Lyon.

    • Topological Signal Processing over Higher-order Networks, IEEE ICASSP 2024, Korea.

    • Edge Learning with Emerging Wireless Technologies,  IEEE ICASSP 2023, Greece. 

    • Machine Learning in Beyond 5G Networks, IEEE ICASSP 2022, Singapore. 

  • Workshops Chair, European Signal Processing Conference, 2025. 

  • Student Prize Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2023.

  • General chair of the workshop "Edge Machine Learning for  for Smart IoT Environments”, European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2019.

  • Local arrangement co-chair of IEICE SmartCOM 2017. 

  • Technical Program Committee:  IEEE SPAWC 2013, IEEE MLSP 2016, IEEE GlobalSIP 2016, IEEE GlobalSIP 2017, IEEE Network of the Future 2017, Eurasip EUSIPCO 2018 (Area Chair), IEEE SSP 2018, IEEE GlobalSIP 2018, ICC 2022, EUCNC 2022, IEEE GlobeCOM 2022.

• Memberships of Scientific Societies

  • IEEE Senior member (since 2019).

  • IEEE Signal Processing society (since 2010).

  • EURASIP - European association for Signal Processing  (since 2011).

  • Big Data Special Interest Group (BIG DATA SIG) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2018-2020)

  • Co-Chair of the EURASIP Student Committee, 2022-now.

  • Member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committe SPCN: Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (2023-2025).

• PhD Committee

  • Member of the Jury. Candidate: Charles Hovine, KU Leuven, Leuven, 2024. 

  • Member of the Jury. Candidate: Francois Gauthier, NTNU, Trondheim, 2024.

  • Member of the Jury. Candidate: Italo Atzeni, UPC, Barcellona, 2014.

Institutional Activities

• Member of the Teaching Board of Communication Engineering.

• Member of the working group "Relazioni con l'esterno", Teaching Board of Communication Engineering. 

• Member of the Teaching Board of Data Science.

• Member of the Teaching Board of Information Engineering.

• Member of the PhD Board of Data Science.

• Dean's delegate for the approval of internship and stages of the M.sc. in Data Science.

• Member of the Committee for the admission to the PhD in Data Science, Sept. 2020.

• Member of the Committee and interviewer for the admission of foreign students to the M.sc. in Data Science.

• Member of the Committee to evaluate knowledge of Italian language spoken by foreign students that aim to enroll in B.Sc. programs of the I3S Faculty (2019).