Anna Umbert (Associate Professor)

Anna Umbert Juliana (Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, 1973) received the Engineering and PhD degrees in Telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1998 and 2004 respectively. She joined the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona (ETSETB)-TelecomBCN, in 2001 as an Assistant Professor, and became Associate Professor in 2017 which is her current status.

Her research interest is focused in radio resource and QoS management in the context of heterogeneous wireless networks, cognitive management in cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access and management, self-organized networks and network optimization.

Since 1997 she has participated in several projects founded by both public and private organizations. In particular, she has been involved in testbeds development of several European Projects: WINEGLAS, CAUTION++, ARROWS, EVEREST, AROMA (she was the WP leader responsible on the testbed), OneFIT (an opportunistic network testbed based on USRPs), FARAMIR and SESAME.

She has also developed a USRP-based real-time testbed that is able to evaluate different spectrum management solutions that exploit the Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm, for a national project. She has also participated in the Networks of Excellence NEWCOM, NEWCOM++ and NEWCOM#. She has published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences. Besides, she participated in the organization of IEEE VTC in Spring 2009 and IEEE PIMRC 2004 international conferences, hold in Barcelona. She has also participated to standardisation group IEEE P1900.6b responsible for “Spectrum sensing information to support spectrum databases.

She has recently been the coordinator of the TRAINER experiment developed within the 4th WiSHFUL Open Call for experiments under the Scientific Excellence category.

Currently she is involved in building a testbed based on SDN (Software Defined Network) which will allow apply NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), innovative aspects of future 5G networks.

Concerning teaching activities, she has lectured different subjects in the radiocommunications area at Bachelor as well as at the Master level, with strong participation in Laboratory oriented subjects. She has participated directly in teaching innovation with the implementation of three new subjects (two taught in English). Currently she teaches the Wireless Laboratory and participates to the Management of Telecommunications Projects, both at Master MET. She is also involved in the CDIO subject PAE introduced at the ETSETB since the Bologna adaptation.

She is an IEEE member since 2000.