Dr. Samir M. Perlaza
INRIA, France

Biography:

Samir M. Perlaza is a research scientist with the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France, and a visiting research collaborator at the School of Applied Science at Princeton University (NJ, USA). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Telecom ParisTech), Paris, France, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Previously, from 2008 to 2011, Dr. Perlaza was a Research Engineer at France Télécom - Orange Labs (Paris, France). Dr. Perlaza has held long-term academic appointments at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair in Flexible Radio at Sup\'{e}lec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France); at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) and at the University of Houston (Houston, TX). Dr. Perlaza has been awarded by the European Commission with an Alban Fellowship in 2006 and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship in 2015. He was also one of the recipients of the the Best Student Paper Award at Crowncom in 2009. His research interests lie in the overlap of signal processing, information theory, game theory and wireless communications.