Dario Fertonani

Short Biography and Research Activities

Dario Fertonani was born in Mantua, Italy, on November 18, 1980, and lived in Rivarolo Mantovano, Italy, until April 2008, when he moved to Tempe, Arizona.

He received the Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Parma in December 2004. For three years, since January 2005, he was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma, with Prof. Giulio Colavolpe as supervisor. He received the Ph.D. degree in March 2008, defending a thesis entitled Low-Complexity Iterative Receivers.

Currently, he holds a post-doc position at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, with Prof. Tolga M. Duman as supervisor.

His research activities have focused on digital communications at the physical layer, particularly on detection/synchronization algorithms and channel coding for wireless applications. The main topics have been:

• design of turbo codes and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes;
• detection algorithms and code design for interference channels;
• detection algorithms and code design for channels with memory;
• code design for broadcast channels;
• system design for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) schemes;
• system design for continuous phase modulations;
• system design for underwater acoustic communications;
• capacity evaluation and code design for insertion/deletion channels.