Stefano Marano is a Professor at DIEM (Department of Information & Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics), University of Salerno, Italy, and Research Affiliate with LIDS (Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems) at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, USA. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering and computer science, both from the University of Naples, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Since 1999 he has been with the University of Salerno. He held visiting positions at Physics Department, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK, and at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, CA, USA, in 1996 and 2013, respectively.
Stefano Marano divides his time between the University of Salerno and the MIT where he is affiliated with QX Lab (Quantum neXus Laboratory) as well as WINS Lab (Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory). At the MIT, he also serves as Guest Lecturer for the course "Statistical Communication and Localization Theory." His research interests include decision theory, distributed inference, information theory, and quantum information science. On these subjects, he has largely published on leading international venues and has given several invited talks at universities and international research centers.
Stefano Marano was awarded the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 1999 Best Paper Award for his work on stochastic modeling of electromagnetic propagation in urban environments. He co-authored the papers winning the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC) in 2025 and in 2024, the Outstanding Student Paper Prize at the 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in 2024, and the Best Student Paper Award (first runner-up) at the 12th Conference on Information Fusion in 2009. Stefano Marano was in the Organizing Committee of the Ninth International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2006) and the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (RADARCON 2008). He was Subcommittee Chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team in Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing (TMTSP SAT) and Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Distributed and Centralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks” of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING (2010-2014) and as Associate Editor and Technical Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS (2009-2016). Currently, he is serving as Guest Editor for the IEEE JSAC QUANTUM SERIES: QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING. Since 2016, he is Senior Member of the IEEE.