Xavier Costa-Pérez is ICREA Research Professor, Scientific Director at the i2cat Research Center and Director of the AI-driven Systems Research Group. His team generates research results which are regularly published at top scientific venues, produces innovations which have received several awards for successful technology transfers, participates in major EU projects and contributes to standardization bodies. Xavier has held multipe leadership positions both in industry and research organizations such as Deputy General Manager, Chief Researcher, Technology and Scientific Advisory Board Member. He has served on the Organizing Committees of several conferences (including ACM MOBICOM, IEEE INFOCOM, WCNC and GREENCOM), published papers of high impact (~12k citations) and holds ~100 granted patents. He served as Editor at IEEE TMC, IEEE TCOM and Elsevier COMCOM journals. Xavier received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from UPC and is the recipient of multiple awards.
Research interests
6G is forecasted to supersede 5G starting on 2030. As mobile networks are one of the major contributors to climate change, the development of Sustainable 6G Radio Access Networks (RAN) technologies has emerged as a crucial research line. Further, 6G is expected to drive the digital transformation of society towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. With its disruptive potential for building highly sustainable and cost-effective Digital Twins of our society, Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) has been identified as the second key research direction.
Selected publications
- Adamuz-Hinojosa O, Zanzi L, Sciancalepore V, Garcia-Saavedra A & Costa-Perez X 2024, 'ORANUS: Latency-tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN', Ieee infocom 2024, 61 - 70.
- Aslan F, Iosifidis G, Ayala Romero JA, Garcia-Saavedrea A & Costa-Perez X 2024, 'Fair Resource Allocation in Virtualized O-RAN Platforms', Sigmetric Performance AbSTRACT Joint International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems, pp 59 - 60.
- Albanese A, Devoti F, Sciancalepore V, Di Renzo M, Banchs A & Costa-Pérez X 2024, 'ARES: Autonomous RIS Solution With Energy Harvesting and Self-Configuration Towards 6G', Ieee transactions on mobile computing, 23 - 12 - 12006 - 12019.
- Ayala-Romero JA, Garcia-Saavedra A & Costa-Perez X 2024, 'Risk-Aware Continuous Control with Neural Contextual Bandits', Thirty-eighth aaai conference on artificial intelligence, vol 38 no 19, -20930 - 20938.
- Ayala-Romero JA, Lo Schiavo L, Garcia-Saavedra A & Costa-Perez X 2024, 'Mean-Field Multi-Agent Contextual Bandit for Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in vRANs', Ieee infocom 2024-ieee conference on computer communications, 911 - 920.
Selected research activities
-Director of AI-driven Systems Group at i2cat
-Scientific Director at i2cat
-Included in Stanford's Top 2% World Scientists List for the 5th year in a row
-Best paper award at ACM SIGMETRICS Conference 2024
-Best paper award at IEEE ICMLCN Conference 2024
-IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer
-Invited presentation at EUCNC conference Special Session on Towards New Connected Mobility
-Invited Lecturer at UPM's Summer School on 5G Security
-Member of the Organizing Committe of the IEEE WCNC 2025 Conference
-Lead Guest Editor for IEEE VTM Journal (JCR Q1) on O-RAN and AI
-Editor at Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (JCR Q1)
-Scholar Citation Impact: H-56, ~12000 citations
-Advisor of several master thesis and PhD candidates (~10)