Curriculum Vitae
I obtained my PhD (summa cum laude) on June 16th, 2022. I am currently working at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at TU Dresden. I lead the Chair’s research group on semantic and goal-oriented communications. And I am also in charge of teaching the course “Practical Implementations of Network Coding.”
My research interests are semantic and goal-oriented communications, functional compression, message identification, common randomness generation, network coding, and in-network distributed storage and computing.
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela and studied at Simon Bolivar University, where I received his bachelor’s degree with honours (cum laude) in electronics engineering in 2013. I studied for one year in Prague, Czech Republic, during the bachelor’s program at the Czech Technical University in Prague (2011 – 2012). After I finished my bachelor’s, I moved to Denmark, receiving my master’s degree (2015) in wireless communications systems at Aalborg University.
Projects/Cooperation within CeTI you are involved in:
- Semantic and goal-oriented communication
- Novel computing platforms
What are the main topics or questions that drive your research?
Most communication systems are built to deliver messages as faithfully as possible. But in many applications, we don’t communicate for its own sake. We communicate to make something happen: to control a system, coordinate agents, or compute a decision at the destination. I want to understand, at its fundamental level, how to design communication around that objective. What must be transmitted to compute a function reliably? When is reconstructing the raw data wasteful (or even the wrong goal)? By treating the task as part of the communication problem, I want to build systems that trade unnecessary fidelity for lower latency and energy, without sacrificing the effect we care about.
What inspired you to pursue your current field of work?
I’ve always been fascinated by communication systems. Since I was a child, I have been attracted to radios, computers, and tinkering with electronic devices, and that’s how I got into communication systems. When I did my PhD in Dresden, I realised that there is a whole new world of uncharted territory beyond Shannon’s message transmission, and into goal-oriented communication. I would like to go there and help map this new field.
What excites you most about being part of CeTI?
Working within a large interdisciplinary team is quite inspiring. There is someone from a completely different field always at hand’s reach!
Which challenge or question has recently sparked your curiosity?
If we know the goal of our communication, and we know the channel we must use, then what exactly do we communicate to achieve this goal, and how do we trade fidelity, energy and latency?
How do you like to recharge or spend your time outside of work?
I like reading and hanging out with friends!
Publications
| 1. | Function-aligned nonuniform quantization graph coloring for distributed functional compression (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026, (accepted for publication). |
| 2. | System modeling of microfluidic molecular communication: A Markov approach (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026, (accepted for publication). |
| 3. | Chaos is a ladder (and increases with storage): Aiding communications with RSSI-based common randomness (Journal Article) In: IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 54230–54246, 2026. |
| 4. | RSS readings in software defined radios with channel emulator for CR generation (Miscellaneous) Dataset at IEEE DataPort, 2026, (corresponding paper doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3680445). |
| 5. | Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (Book Section) In: Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Li, Shu-Chen; Speidel, Stefanie; Strufe, Thorsten; Mahmoodi, Toktam; Reisslein, Martin (Ed.): Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet, pp. 3-14, Academic Press, 2026. |
| 6. | Information theory (Book Section) In: Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Li, Shu-Chen; Speidel, Stefanie; Strufe, Thorsten; Mahmoodi, Toktam; Reisslein, Martin (Ed.): Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet, pp. 233–252, Academic Press, 2026. |
| 7. | Computing (Book Section) In: Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Li, Shu-Chen; Speidel, Stefanie; Strufe, Thorsten; Mahmoodi, Toktam; Reisslein, Martin (Ed.): Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet, pp. 313–336, Academic Press, 2026. |
| 8. | Communication (Book Section) In: Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Li, Shu-Chen; Speidel, Stefanie; Strufe, Thorsten; Mahmoodi, Toktam; Reisslein, Martin (Ed.): Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet, pp. 337–355, Academic Press, 2026. |
| 9. | Toward a trust-centric semantic mobile core leveraging quantum security (Journal Article) In: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, pp. 1–9, 2026, (early access). |
| 10. | Codes for identification via channels: Tutorial for communications generalists (Journal Article) In: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 181–223, 2026. |
