Filippo Malandra

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department

University at Buffalo

Filippo obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016 and his thesis was recommended for the best thesis award. From 2017 to 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montreal, where he worked on a smart-city project, funded by Ericsson, to study the impact of IoT traffic on cellular networks. In 2019, he joined University at Buffalo as a Research Assistant Professor and was recently promoted to the rank of Tenure-track Assistant Professor. At UB, he founded the Wireless Networks for Smart Systems (WN4SS) Lab, with more than 30  undergraduate and graduate students and a research focus on the performance analysis and design of wireless networks to enable smart systems, such as smart grids, smart cities or the Internet of Things. Filippo is the recipient of several awards and PIs of a number of research grants, funded from NSF, US Ignite, and Schmidt Futures. He is currently the PI of one of 7 OVERCOME projects, with the goal of bridging the digital divide in the FruitBelt Community in Buffalo. Twitter handle https://twitter.com/wn4ss

Filippo Malandra

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department

University at Buffalo

Filippo obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016 and his thesis was recommended for the best thesis award. From 2017 to 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montreal, where he worked on a smart-city project, funded by Ericsson, to study the impact of IoT traffic on cellular networks. In 2019, he joined University at Buffalo as a Research Assistant Professor and was recently promoted to the rank of Tenure-track Assistant Professor. At UB, he founded the Wireless Networks for Smart Systems (WN4SS) Lab, with more than 30  undergraduate and graduate students and a research focus on the performance analysis and design of wireless networks to enable smart systems, such as smart grids, smart cities or the Internet of Things. Filippo is the recipient of several awards and PIs of a number of research grants, funded from NSF, US Ignite, and Schmidt Futures. He is currently the PI of one of 7 OVERCOME projects, with the goal of bridging the digital divide in the FruitBelt Community in Buffalo. Twitter handle https://twitter.com/wn4ss