Member of IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (2011–2013, 2014–2016).
General Co-chair of ISIT 2021, Melbourne.
Served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Journal of Communications and Networks; Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing; Editor for Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory.
NATO Advanced Fellowship (1997) from Italian National Research Council.
Australia-India Fellowship (2012–2013) from Australian Academy of Science.
Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (2013) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Research Experience
1990–1992: Patent examiner at the European Patent Office, The Hague, Netherlands, in dynamic recording and error-control coding.
1995–1997: Postdoctoral researcher at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino.
1997–1998: Postdoctoral research fellow at AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA.
From 1998: Assistant then Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino.
2006: Full Professor at DEIS, University of Calabria, Italy.
Since 2010: Professor at ECSE Department, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; served as Associate Dean Research Training and Acting Department Head.
Visiting researcher at multiple institutions: DLR Germany (1993), ENST Paris (1994–1995), EPFL Switzerland (2003), UNICAMP Brazil (2004), UniSA Australia (2005, 2006, 2009), Nokia Research Center Finland (2007).