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Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Engineering Sciences

Albert Guillén i Fàbregas is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Cambridge. In 1999 he received both the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Politecnico di Torino respectively, and the PhD in Communication Systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004. He has held appointments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency, Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia and the University of Cambridge. He is a recepient of both Consolidator and Starting Grants of the European Research Council. He is a member of the Young Academy of Europe and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the Foundations and Trends on Communications and Information Theory.


Research interests

The broad theme of his research is the mathematical foundations of communications, spanning the fields of Information Theory, Coding Theory, Communications Theory and Signal Processing. Its aim is to study the fundamental limits of reliable communication, along with schemes and processing algorithms that allow one to achieve them.

Selected publications

– M. Dabirnia, A. Martinez and A. Guillén i Fàbregas 2021, “A Recursive Quantizer Design Algorithm for Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 69, 8, 5069 – 5078.

– A. Rezazadeh, J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez, and A. Guillén i Fàbregas 2021, “Multi-class cost-constrained random coding for correlated sources over the multiple-access channel,” Entropy, vol. 23, no. 5, p. 569..

– M. Abroshan, R. Venkataramanan and A. Guillén i Fàbregas 2021, “Multilayer Codes for Synchronization from Deletions and Insertions“,  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue in Memory of Vladimir Levenshtein, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3342-3359.

– E. Asadi Kangarshahi and A. Guillén i Fàbregas, 2021 ” A Single-Letter Upper Bound to the Mismatch Capacity“, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2013 – 2033.

ICREA Memoir 2021