Roberto López Valcarce received the Telecommunication Engineer degree from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, in 1998 and 2000 respectively. During 1995 he was with Intelsis Sistemas Inteligentes SA in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Signal Theory & Communications at University of Vigo. From 2001 to 2006 he was an Associate Researcher at the same department, supported by a postdoctoral contract from the Ramón y Cajal Program of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He has coauthored over 60 papers in leading international journals and over 100 contributions published in various conference proceedings. He has been principal investigator of a number of research projects and contracts with industry, and holds several international patents. He was the recipient of a Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Signal Processing for Communications and Networking) in 2005, and of the Young Researcher Award from the Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia) in 2007. Roberto's research interests cover multiple areas of application of signal processing, including sensor networks, adaptive filtering, digital communications, spectrum sensing, vibration synthesis, etc.
Roberto is a senior member of the IEEE, and serves as Subject Editor (Communications) of Elsevier's Signal Processing journal since 2018. He also served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2007 to 2011. He was an elected member of the Signal Processing for Communication and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, in which he served from 2011 to 2013. He also served as Manager of the Information and Communication Technology Program for R&D of the Galician Regional Government (Xunta de Galicia) from 2010 to 2013.
