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
| 11. | Advanced plaque modeling for atherosclerosis detection using molecular communication (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025. |
| 12. | Distributed platoon control via semantic-aware identification codes (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025. |
| 13. | The impact of arterial plaque tissue elasticity on in-body molecular communication scenarios (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Molecular Communications (MolCom), 2025. |
| 14. | A biologically inspired and protein-based bio-cyber interface for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (Journal Article) In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, vol. 22, pp. 100572:1–9, 2025. |
| 15. | CFO-CR: Carrier frequency offset methodology for high-rate common randomness generation (Journal Article) In: IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 15469–15488, 2025. |
| 16. | COSMIC – Coding for optimized sending in multimedia interplanetary communication (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), 2025. |
| 17. | Raw channel metrics from Ettus N210 USRP for common randomness generation (Miscellaneous) Dataset at IEEE DataPort, 2024, (corresponding paper doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3529665). |
| 18. | Unjammable: A practical approach to jamming-safe wireless channels (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Main Symposium on Communication and Information System Security (CISS), 2024. |
| 19. | Consensus testing via relay networks by physical-layer network coding (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), 2024. |
| 20. | Sniffing out the path: Olfactory localization based low-cost SLAM for disaster scenarios (Proceedings Article) In: Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), 2024. |
