Miguel Ãngel Lagunas
Senior Researcher
CTTC – Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
"Miguel A. Lagunas was born in Madrid in 1951. He is Telecommunications Engineer (UPM, Madrid 1973) and holds a Ph D. in Communications (UPB, Barcelona 1976), teaching courses in Network Systems, Circuit Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Signal Processing, Signal Processing for Communications, Array processing, Satellite Communications, Spectral Estimation, Acoustics, Electroacoustics and Sonar. He has been teaching assistant (1973-76), adjunt (1976-78), associate (1978-82), advisor through Fullbrigh grant (University of Colorado, L.J.Griffiths, 1981-1982), and he is full professor since 1983. He has published more than 42 technical papers on IEEE Communications, IEEE Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, JASA and Signal Processing. He has made as well 39 invited presentations in universities, communications industry and international conferences, and has presented more than 134 papers on international conferences. He has been prime and participant in 19 projects of the Spanish National Plan of Research and in 18 from the European Union and the European Space Agency projects. He was Vice-president for research of UPC (1986-89), Vice-secretary General of the Spanish National Plan of Research (1994-96), Manager of the National Plan on Information Technology and Communications (1993-94), Senior IEEE (1991) and IEEE Fellow (1997), as well as Member at large of Eurasip since 1990. He was elected Member of the Engineering Academy of Spain in 1998, holding awards from UPC, Generalitat and Chamber of Commerce for technical merits (1990 and 1991 respectively)."
Research Interest
Communication Systems
Publications
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X. Mestre, M. Ã. Lagunas, Diagonal Loading for Finite Sample Size Beamforming: an Asymptotic Approach , Published in the book Robust Adaptive Beamforming, Chapter 4, pp. 200-257, edited by Jian Li and P. Stoica. John Wiley & Sons (2005), New Jersey, ISBN 0-471-67850-3.
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D. P. Palomar, A. Pascual-Iserte, J. M. Cioffi, M. Ã. Lagunas, D. Pérez, Convex Optimization Theory Applied to Joint Transmitter-Receiver Design in MIMO Channels , Published in the book Space-Time Processing for MIMO Communications, Chapter 8, pp. 269-318, edited by A. B. Gershman and N. Sidiropoulos. John Wiley & Sons(2005), New Jersey, ISBN 0-470-01002-9.
