Manuel Fuentes

Manuel Fuentes received the first M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering and the second M.Sc. degree in communication technologies, systems, and networks from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering in 2017. He is currently with the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. He was a Guest Researcher with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, he was with Samsung Electronics Research and Development U.K. Team, as a 5G Research Engineer. He is currently participating in the 5G-PPP phase-2 project 5G-Xcast, for the efficient delivery of broadcasting in 5G New Radio systems and contributing to the IMT-2020 Evaluation Group of 5G-PPP. He also contributed actively to the ATSC 3.0 standardization process. His main research interests include physical layer procedures, innovative techniques in bit-interleaved coding and modulation, such as nonuniform constellations or signal space diversity, and multiantenna communications. He was the Workshops Chair of IEEE BMSB 2018.