Team

Anna Guerra received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering at the University of Bologna (UNIBO, Bologna, Italy) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In 2016, she received a Ph.D. degree in electronics, telecommunications, and information technologies from UNIBO.

From 2016 to 2021, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna. During these years (from 2018 to 2020), she received a global Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship for the H2020 AirSens project, and she spent the project's outgoing phase at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. From 2021 to 2024, she was a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy.

Since 2024, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. In 2023, she received the ERC Starting Grant for the project CUE-GO.

She is a reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications. She received the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award in 2022.

Haoyang Di is a PhD student at the University of Bologna, where he moved after obtaining his Master's degree at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

Mehrdad Saeidi holds an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” (DEI), University of Bologna, working on the project “AI-Driven Solutions for Sensing and Navigation in UAV Networks”, funded by the European Union under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

Jingfeng Shan is a researcher at the University of Bologna. He received his PhD in 2023 from Jilin University (China). Later, he worked as a postdoc at the University of Florence (Italy). His research activity focuses on signal processing, machine learning, and target localization.

Muhammad Usman Khan received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2016, and the M.Sc. degree in Advanced Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, in 2018. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2024.

Since 2024, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy. His current research interests include deep learning for wireless communications, grant free random access, massive Internet of Things, cell free massive MIMO, large language models, and retrieval augmented generation systems.

He serves as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences, including IEEE Access, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE PIMRC, and IEEE WCNC.