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nical committee in 2019. Her main interests are multi‑
carrier and multi‑antenna techniques and signal process‑
ing applied to wireless communications.

Ana García Armada (S’96‑A’98‑M’00‑SM’08) received a
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytech‑
nical University of Madrid in February 1998. She is cur‑
rently a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
She is leading the Communications Research Group at this
university. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford
University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She
has participated (and coordinated most of them) in more
than 30 national and 10 international research projects,
as well as 20 contracts with the industry, all of them re‑
lated to wireless communications. She is the co‑author
of eight book chapters on wireless communications and
signal processing. She has published around 150 papers
in international journals and conference proceedings and
she holds four patents. She has contributed to interna‑
tional standards organizations, such as ITU and ETSI, and
is a member of the expert group of the European 5G PPP
and member of the advisory committee 5JAC of the ESA as
an expert appointed by Spain on 5G. She has served on the
editorial boardsof PhysicalCommunication (2008‑2017),
IET Communications (2014‑2017). She has been serving
on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters
since 2016 (Editor until Feb 2019, Senior Editor from Mar
2019, Exemplary Editor Award 2017 and 2018) and IEEE
Transactions on Communications since 2019. She has
served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she
has been a member of the organizing committee of IEEE
Globecom 2019, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC) Fall 2018, Spring 2018 and 2019 and IEEE 5G Sum‑
mit 2017, among others. She will be the General Chair
of Globecom 2021. She was the Newsletter Editor of the
IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Consumer Electron‑
ics Committee (2017‑2018) and is now the Secretary of
this committee (since 2019). She has been the Secretary
oftheIEEEComSocWomeninCommunicationsEngineer‑
ingStandingCommittee(2016‑2017)andtheChairofthis
committee (2018‑2019). She has received the Young Re‑
searchers Excellence Award, the Award to Outstanding
achievement in research, teaching and management and
the Award to Best Practices in Teaching, all from Univer‑
sity Carlos III of Madrid, She was awarded the third place
Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of informa‑
tion and communications technology. She received the
Outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal
Processing and Communications Electronics (SPCE) tech‑

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