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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 1 (2020), Issue 1

AUTHORS

Abolfazl Hajisami received his PhD degree in Electrical
and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Rutgers University,
NJ, USA, in 2018. He received his MSc and BSc degrees from
Sharif University of Technology and from Shahid Beheshti
University (Tehran, Iran), in 2010 and 2008, respectively.
His research interest lies in wireless communication, vehicle-
to-everything (V2X) communication, and signal processing.
His PhD thesis dealt with spectral and energy efficiency in
cloud radio access networks. He is now a Staff Research En-
gineer at Qualcomm, where he works on V2X technologies.

Dario Pompili is an Assoc. Prof. with the Dept. of
ECE at Rutgers, where he directs the Cyber-Physical Sys-
tems Laboratory (CPS Lab), which focuses on mobile edge
computing, wireless networking, acoustic communications,
and sensor networks. He received his PhD in ECE from the
Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He had previously
received his ‘Laurea’ (combined BS and MS) and Doctor-
ate degrees in Telecommunications and System Engineering
from the U. of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy, in 2001 and 2004,
respectively. He has received a number of awards including
the NSF CAREER’11, ONR Young Investigator Program’12,
and DARPA Young Faculty’12 awards. In 2015, he was nom-
inated Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor’s Scholar. He has
served in various roles on many international conferences.
He published about 150 refereed scholar publications, some
of which selected to receive best paper awards: with about
11,600 citations, Dr. Pompili has an h-index of 42 and an
i10-index of 101 (Google Scholar, Oct’20). He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE Communications Society (2014) and a
Distinguished Member of the ACM (2019). He is an Area
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

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