Short Biography


Stefano Busanelli was born in Castelnovo nè Monti (RE), on September 1982. He received the "Laurea" degree (3-year program, equivalent to a Bachelor) in Telecommunications Engineering summa cum laude on December 2004, discussing a thesis with title "Signaling platform for peer to peer applications" (in Italian). On December 2007, he received the "Laurea" degree (3+2 year program, equivalent to a Master) in Telecommunications Engineering "summa cum laude," discussing a thesis with title "Markov chains-based performance analysis of wireless sensor network with multihop communications" (in Italian). In March 2011, he got his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the University of Parma, discussing a thesis with title "Efficient Multihop Wireless Communications in VANETs."

From June 2008 to October 2008, he was an intern at Thales Communications (Colombes, France), collaborating with Dr. Christophe Le Martret and Dr. Isabelle Icart. His research has been focused on performance analysis of distributed Space-Time Block Codes and design of cooperative MAC protocols for ad-hoc wireless network.

Since March 2011, he is a Post-doc researcher at the Information Engineering Department (DII) of the University of Parma, under the supervision of Prof. Gianluigi Ferrari, working on wireless communications in vehicular ad-hoc networks. His activity carried out under the one-year project ``Cross-Network Effective Traffic Alerts Dissemination'' (X-NETAD, Eureka Label E! 6252), sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy) and The Israeli Industry Center for R&D (Israel) under the ``Israel-Italy Joint Innovation Program for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in R&D.'' He is a member of the Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) laboratory.

Dr. Busanelli has taken part into research projects in collaboration with a few research organizations and private companies. He is also a frequent reviewer for some international conferences and international journals. He got an ``Award for outstanding contribution'' at 11th International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST-2011), Saint Petersburg, Russia. He also won the first prize award, together with the WASNLab team, at the the first Body Sensor Network (BSN) Contest, organized in conjunction with the 2011 Body Sensor Networks (BSN '11) conference, Dallas, TX, USA, May 2011.

Dr. Busanelli is an IEEE student member, a CNIT member, a GTTI member, and a MIMOS member.