Senior Researcher
Current Research
Antonio Fernández Anta’s current research interests include: Communications and Networks; Distributed Computing; Algorithms; Discrete and Applied Mathematics. In particular, he is currently interested on algorithms for energy saving in communication networks, overlay network design for efficient resource location, and algorithms for radio and sensor networks.
Publications
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Brief resume
Antonio Fernández Anta is a Senior Researcher at Institute IMDEA Networks since the fall of 2010. Previously he was a Full Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where he has been on the Faculty since 1998. Prior to that he was before on the Faculty of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has been a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1997.
Antonio has more than 20years of research experience, with a steady productivity of more than 5 papers per year on average. He has published in top conferences and journals like INFOCOM, STOC, FOCS, PODC, DISC, Journal of the ACM, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, SIAM Journal on Computing, or IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is vice-chair of the Steering Committee of DISC and member of the Steering Committee of Opodis. He has chaired or served in the TPC of a number of conferences and workshops. He is a senior member of the IEEE since 2002 and of the ACM since 2007.
Antonio received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana in 1992 and 1994, respectively. His PhD thesis studied the Cartesian product of graphs as a mean to construct efficient interconnection networks for multiprocessors. He completed his undergraduate studies (Licenciado and Diplomado en Informática) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1988 and 1991 respectively, having received awards at the university and national level for his academic performance.
Personal activities
Antonio likes travelling, reading, music and movies.