Arturo Azcorra (born November 8, 1962, in
Santurce,
Spain
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) is a Spanish scientist and
telecommunication
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s engineer who is recognized as a pioneer of
internet
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and
network science
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research
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in Spain, as well as a promoter of
telematics
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as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and
informatics.
Life and career
Azcorra graduated from
Loy Norrix High School (Michigan, USA) in 1980. In 1986, he received his
M.Sc.
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degree in
Telecommunications Engineering
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from the
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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(Madrid, Spain), with "Sobresaliente" (Outstanding) grade, and was subsequently awarded the Price Waterhouse Prize for Best Student in 1986. He then obtained his
Ph.D.
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in Telecommunications Engineering from the same university in 1989, receiving the National Award COIT-AEIT-ANIEL (AMETIC) to the Best PhD Thesis (Premio Nacional a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral). In 1993, he obtained an
MBA
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from the
Instituto de Empresa
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, graduating first in his class.
He began his career in the
Madrid Subway Company (
Compañía del Metropolitano de Madrid), while simultaneously performing research work in telecommunications at UPM. He was an associate professor at UPM from 1989 to 1998, when he moved to
University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) where he became
Full Professor
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and founder of the NETCOM Research Group on Networks and Communication Technologies, which he has coordinated since, at the Department of Telematics Engineering. He was later appointed Deputy Vice-Provost for Academic Infrastructures at the UC3M and held this post from 2000 to 2007. He was a
Visiting Researcher at
ICSI University of California at Berkeley (USA) in 1999 and at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA) in 2002. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the UC3M
Telefónica
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Chair and worked in this role until 2009. In June 2002 he earned the distinction of being named
IEEE
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(
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director of REDIMadrid, the
Telematics
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Research Network of the
Community of Madrid
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. He was the founder, and Director from 2006 to April 2021, of the international research institute
IMDEA Networks.
In November 2009 he was appointed Director General for Technology Transfer and Corporate Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIN
,a position he held until his appointment as Director General at the
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology
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(
Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial - CDTI), the Spanish agency to fund research in private companies, on May 30, 2010. In February 2012 he returned to his post as full professor at the Department of Telematics Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid and Director of IMDEA Networks Institute. In April 2021, he took leave from these posts, and incorporated to the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation a
Director General of Telecommunications and Organization of Audiovisual Media ServicesOn October 6, 2022, he was promoted t
Secretary General of Telecommunications and Organization of Audiovisual Media Services
In October 2018 he was appointed member of the European Academy of Sciences "Academia Europaea". He received, in 2020, the prestigious Reginald Fessenden Award for his contributions to the development of 5G technology. Granted by the ACM-MSWIM International Conference, the award ("for ''h''is pioneering contribution to the midhaul and core of 5G networks") recognises scientific contributions in the fields of wireless communications, networking and mobile systems.
In November 2021 he was elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow in the “Technical Leader” category, for the scientific and industrial impact of his research contributions to the development of 5G technology. In this way, he becomes the first scientist in Spain to be designated IEEE Fellow in the “Technical Leader” category.
He has participated in or directed 63 advanced research projects, mainly in the
of the
European Union
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. He was the coordinator of the European Networks of Excellence E-NET, E-NEXT and CONTENT, and of the European projects CARMEN, TRILOGY, 5G-CROSSHAUL and 5G-TRANSFORMER. He has licensed technological developments in telecommunications for Ericsson-Telebit Denmark,
NEC
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Europe and
Huawei
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China. He has also performed advisory and technological consulting work for organizations such as Servicom, the
European Space Agency,
MFS-
Worldcom
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, the Community of Madrid,
RENFE,
REPSOL
Repsol S.A.
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, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
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), Ericsson-Telebit and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. He was a Member of the Advisory Board of the Future Internet PPP, European Commission, since February 2012 until December 2017. He was a member of General Assembly of the 5G Infrastructure Association from 2013 to 2021. From 2013 to 2017 he was also a member of the Steering Board of the NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform (ETP) (formerly Net!Works & ISI ETPs), during which he was also the Chairman of its Expert Advisory Group. Since 2014 he is partnership Board member of the European Union 5G-PPP, and from 2015 to 2021 he was Vice-president of th
5TONIC Laboratory
Arturo Azcorra is the founder of the
ACM CoNEXT conference series, of which he was the first General Chair. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the
IEEE
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INFOCOM Conference from 2005 to 2014, and has chaired prestigious international conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT and PROMS-IDMS. He has authored over one hundred and sixty technical publications in journals and international and national conferences.
Partial bibliography
* Ortega, Felipe and Gomez-Villafuertes, Rosa and Benito-León, María and Martínez de la Torre, Margaret and Olivos-Oré, Luis A. and Arribas-Blazquez, Marina and Gomez-Gaviro, María Victoria and Azcorra, Arturo and Desco, Manuel and Artalejo, Antonio R. and Puelles, Luis and Miras-Portugal, María Teresa (2021)
''Salient brain entities labelled in P2rx7-EGFP reporter mouse embryos include the septum, roof plate glial specializations and circumventricular ependymal organs, Brain Structure and Function'' January 2021
*Nogales, Borja and Vidal, Iván and Sanchez-Aguero, Victor and Valera, Francisco and Gonzalez, Luis. F and Azcorra, Arturo (2020),
OSM PoC 10 Automated Deployment of an IP Telephony Service on UAVs using OSM'' In: ETSI-OSM PoC 10, 11 February 2020, Madrid, Spain.
*Pastor, Antonio and Cuevas, Rubén and Cuevas, Ángel and Azcorra, Arturo (2020)
''Establishing Trust in Online Advertising With Signed Transactions'' IEEE Access, 9. February 2020
*Pastor, Antonio and Pärssinen, Matti and Callejo, Patricia and Vallina, Pelayo and Cuevas, Rubén and Cuevas, Ángel and Kotila, Mikko and Azcorra, Arturo (2019),
Nameles: An intelligent system for Real-Time Filtering of Invalid Ad Traffic'. In: The Web Conference 2019 (WWW 2019), 13–17 May 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.
*Martin Perez, Jorge and Cominardi, Luca and Bernardos, Carlos Jesús and de la Oliva, Antonio and Azcorra, Arturo (2019),
Modeling Mobile Edge Computing Deployments for Low Latency Multimedia Services', IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, . February 2019
*Molner, Nuria and de la Oliva, Antonio and Stavrakakis, Ioannis and Azcorra, Arturo (2019),
Optimization of an integrated fronthaul/backhaul network under path and delay constraints', Ad Hoc Networks, 83. pp. 41-54, . February 2019
*Nogales, Borja and Vidal, Iván and García-Reinoso, Jaime and López, Diego R. and Rodríguez, Juan and Azcorra, Arturo (2019)
Design and Deployment of an Open Management and Orchestration Platform for Multi-site NFV Experimentation IEEE Communications Magazine, . January 2019
*I. Vidal, I. Soto, F. Valera, J. Garcia, A. Azcorra
''Multiparty Services in the IP Multimedia Subsystem''in ''IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Handbook'', Edited by Mohammad Ilyas, Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc. Books, pp. 361-380. . New York. 2008
*I. Ucar, E. Pebesma, A. Azcorra,
Measurement Errors in R'' The R Journal, Ed. The R Foundation, Vol. PP, Issue PP, . December 2018
*I. Ucar, J. A. Hernandez, P. Serrano, A. Azcorra,
Design and Analysis of 5G Scenarios with simmer: An R Package for Fast DES Prototyping', IEEE Communications Magazine, Ed. IEEE Communications Society, Vol. 56, Issue 11, pp. 145-151, . November 2018
*F. Gringoli, P. Serrano, I. Ucar, N. Facchi, A. Azcorra,
Experimental QoE evaluation of multicast video delivery over IEEE 802.11aa WLANs', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Ed. IEEE Communications Society, . Volume: 18, Issue: 1. On Page(s): 2549-2561. . November 2019
*I. Vidal, P. Bellavista, V. Sanchez-Aguero, J. Garcia-Reinoso, F. Valera, B. Nogales, A. Azcorra,
Enabling Multi-Mission Interoperable UAS Using Data-Centric Communications', MDPI Sensors, Ed. MDPI AG, Vol. 18, Issue 10, no. 3421, . October 2018
*P. Caballero-Garces, A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, X. Costa-Perez, A. Azcorra,
Network Slicing for Guaranteed Rate Services: Admission Control and Resource Allocation Games', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 17, Issue 10, pp. 6419-6432, . October 2018
Patents:
*Arturo Azcorra, Guillermo Ibáñez, Elisa Rojas, Isaías Martínez-Yelmo. ''Method for establishing and clearing paths and forwarding frames for transport connections, and network bridge''. Paten
P201301133ES2540595 B2
* Guillermo Agustín Ibáñez Fernández, Juan Antonio Carral Pelayo, Alberto García Martínez, Arturo Azcorra, ''Data frame routing method and network bridge'' (''Procedimiento de encaminamiento de tramas de datos y puente de red''), Paten
WO2010097489 A1US20120044837 A1* Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano, Ignacio Soto Campos, María Calderón Pastor, Arturo Azcorra, Albert Banchs Roca, ''Procedimiento y dispositivo de gestion de movilidad IP localizada basada en la red, red de acceso y dispositivos de paserala de acceso fijos y moviles a dominios con movilidad IP localizada'', Spanish Paten
ES2360678* Arturo Azcorra, Michal Kryczka, Marcelo Bagnulo, Iljitsch Van Beinjum, Alberto García Martínez. Procedure of IPv4 address generation
P200930504*Guillermo Agustín Ibáñez Fernández, Arturo Azcorra, Alberto García Martínez, ''Procedimiento de gestión de enlaces en el nivel de enlace de datos para redes de comunicaciones, procedimiento de encaminamiento de tramas de datos, dispositivo de interconexión de redes y red que combina ambos procedimientos'', Spanish Patent Application No
References
External links
IMDEA Networks InstituteNETCOM Research Group on Networks and Communication TechnologiesUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid5TONIC laboratory* COITT-Revista Antena de Telecomunicación, núm.177 September 2009: Interview with Arturo Azcorra, Director at IMDEA Networks
“En una o dos décadas, las comunicaciones cuánticas podrían impregnar nuestra vida diaria” (in Spanish), September 2009
* Arturo Azcorra's article on
El País:
La innovación es el único camino (in Spanish), June 18, 2010
* Madri+d: Interview with Arturo Azcorra, Director General of Technology Transfer and Corporate Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN):
La Estrategia Estatal de Innovación tiene como objetivo ampliar el número de empresas innovadoras y la intensidad de su compromiso con la innovación (in Spanish), March 10, 2010
* Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Cinco Días: Interview with Arturo Azcorra, Director General of CDTI
"Queremos ir hacia un modelo de mayor riesgo y rentabilidad"(in Spanish), July 26, 2010
* [https://www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite/UC3MInstitucional/es/Detalle/Comunicacion_C/1371223064198/1371215537949/%20El_5G_transformara_nuestra_forma_de_percibir_y__relacionarnos_con_el_mundo_que_nos_rodea Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Oficina de Información Científica: Interview with Arturo Azcorra, Professor at UC3M: “El 5G transformará nuestra forma de percibir y relacionarnos con el mundo que nos rodea” (in Spanish), September 19, 2016]
“5G va a ser otra revolución industrial”(Redes&Telecom, October 2019)
(Cadena SER, diciembre 2019)
*
Parece improbable que veamos 5G en su máximo esplendor antes de 2022”(Zona Movilidad, diciembre 2020)
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Spanish computer scientists
Living people
1962 births
Charles III University of Madrid alumni