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I am an Associate Professor (Tenure Track) at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu (Finland) and Academy Research Fellow (Research Council of Finland) 2022–2027.

Short Bio

Italo Atzeni received the MSc degree (Hons.) in telecommunications engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2010 and the PhD degree (Hons.) in signal theory and communications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia–BarcelonaTech, Spain, in 2014. Since 2019, he has been with the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Academy Research Fellow. In 2014–2017, he was a Researcher at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei Technologies, France. In 2017–2018, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at EURECOM, France. In 2013, he was a visiting doctoral research at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. His research interests include signal processing, communication theory, convex and distributed optimization, and their applications to low-complexity, energy-efficient multi-antenna communications. He received Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICC 2019 (Wireless Communications Symposium) and IEEE SPAWC 2023. He was awarded the MSCA Individual Fellowship (2020–2022) by the European Commission and the Academy Research Fellowship (2022–2027) by the Research Council of Finland. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters.

Contact Information

Email: italo.atzeni(AT)oulu.fi, italo.atzeni(AT)ieee.org
Office: TS412
Address: Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 3 (E-door), 90570 Oulu, Finland
University of Oulu researcher profile: link

News

• 15/03/2026: Together with A. Tölli, I am organizing a special session on "Low-Resolution and Hardware-Constrained MIMO Systems" at IEEE SPAWC 2026 (Athens, Greece), 6-9/09/2026.
• 20/12/2025: Together with G. Alexandropoulos, I am organizing a special session on "Signal Processing for XL-MIMO Systems and Applications" at EUSIPCO 2026 (Bruges, Belgium), 31/8-4/9/2026.
• 15/12/2025: I received the Exemplary Editor Award for the IEEE Communications Letters for the fourth consecutive year.
• 14/08/2025: Together with G. Alexandropoulos, I am organizing a special session on "Signal Processing for Extremely Large MIMO (XL-MIMO) Systems" at ICASSP 2026 (Barcelona, Spain), 4-8/5/2026.
• 01/09/2025: I am organizing a special session on "Signal Processing for XL-MIMO and Holographic MIMO" at IEEE Asilomar 2025 (Pacific Grove, CA, USA), 26-29/10/2025.
• 30/07/2025: Together with A. Nimr, I am organizing a special session on "Extreme MIMO: Enabling Large-Scale and Wideband MIMO Communications," at ITG WSA 2025 (Erlangen, Germany), 16-18/9/2025.
• 21/02/2025: Together with G. Alexandropoulos, I am organizing a special session on "Signal Processing for XL-MIMO and Holographic MIMO" at EUSIPCO 2025 (Palermo, Italy), 8-12/9/2025.
• 16/12/2024: My Doctoral Researcher Bikshapathi Gouda (co-supervised with Prof. A. Tölli) successfully defended his doctoral thesis today.
• 10/12/2024: I received the Exemplary Editor Award for the IEEE Communications Letters for the third consecutive year.
• 11/09/2024: I have joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• 06/12/2023: I received the Exemplary Editor Award for the IEEE Communications Letters for the second consecutive year.
• 10/10/2023: Open Postdoctoral Researcher positions in 6G MIMO signal processing available in our group. If you're interested, please apply here by 19/11/2023.
• 30/09/2023: Our paper "Analysis of oversampling in uplink massive MIMO-OFDM with low-resolution ADCs" (available here) received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SPAWC 2023. 🏆
• 22/12/2022: I received the Exemplary Editor Award for the IEEE Communications Letters.
• 25/11/2022: Open Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researcher positions in 6G wireless communications and signal processing available in our group. If you're interested, please apply at the following links by 08/01/2023: Doctoral Researcher positions, Postdoctoral Researcher positions.
• 01/07/2022: I received the Academy Research Fellow grant by the Research Council of Finland for the project "High-Frequency Revolution for Sustainable 6G Systems" (HIGH-6G). Funding period: 01/09/2022–31/08/2027.
• 01/08/2021: I have joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Communications Letters.
• 15/07/2021: Open Doctoral Researcher positions in beyond-5G cellular access available in our group. If you're interested, please apply here by 15/08/2021.
• 28/05/2021: My Doctoral Researcher Placido Mursia (co-supervised with Prof. D. Gesbert and Prof. L. Cottatellucci) successfully defended his doctoral thesis today.
• 28/03/2021: Together with A. Tölli, I am organizing a special session on "Low-complexity mmWave and THz massive MIMO for beyond 5G" at IEEE SPAWC 2021 (Lucca, Italy), 27-30/09/2021.
• 15/01/2021: I will co-present a tutorial on "Tools and Techniques for URLLC Towards Beyond-5G Systems" at IEEE VTC 2021-Spring (Helsinki, Finland), 25-28/04/2020, and at IEEE ICC 2021 (Montreal, Canada), 14-18/06/2020.
• 01/10/2020: I was conferred the title of Docent (Adjunct Professor).
• 30/06/2020: Our "White paper on broadband connectivity in 6G" has been published here.
• 01/05/2020: I received the MSCA-IF grant by the European Commission for the project "Device-Centric Low-Complexity High-Frequency Networks" (DELIGHT). Funding period: 01/07/2020–30/06/2022.
• 10/05/2019: Our paper "D2D-aided multi-antenna multicasting" (available here) received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2019 (Wireless Communications Symposium). 🏆