Amina Piemontese

Amina Piemontese (Member, IEEE) received the Dr.Ing. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Parma, Italy, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in information technology from the University of Parma and TELECOM Bretagne, Brest, France, in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, where she is currently an Associate Professor. From May 2015 to May 2020, she was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research activity includes various topics in digital communications, with particular emphasis on iterative joint detection and decoding algorithms, multiuser communications theory, and information theory. She received the Best Paper Award at the 5th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conference and 11th International Workshop on Signal Processing for Space Communications 2010 and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, and the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission.