People: Fred Daneshgaran

 fred.daneshgaran@euroconcepts.it

Fred Daneshgaran received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles (CSLA) in 1984, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from CSLA in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1992. From 1985 to 1987 he was instructor of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at CSLA. From 1987 to 1993 he was assistant professor, from 1993 to 1996 he was associate professor, and from 1997 he is a full professor of the ECE department at CSLA. From 1989 he has been the chairman of the communications group of the ECE department at CSLA.

From 1999 to 2001 he acted as the chief scientist for TechnoConcepts, Inc. where he directed the development of a prototype software defined radio system, managed the hardware and software teams and orchestrated the development process. In 2000, he co-founded EuroConcepts S.r.l. a R\&D company specializing in the design of advanced communication links and reconfigurable communication systems. Currently, he is acting as the chief executive officer and the chief technology officer of EuroConcepts S.r.l. In 1996 he founded Quantum Bit Communications, a consulting firm specializing in wireless communications.

From 1992 he has been a research consultant to the TLC group of the EE department, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, where he consulted on a variety of projects for both national and European funded contracts, conducted joint research on wavelets, coded modulation, channel coding, etc. with members of the signal analysis and simulation group. He has been a regular reviewer of proposals submitted to MURST (Italian equivalent of NSF) since 1995 and regular reviewer of proposals submitted to KMB (Norweegian research council) from 2001.

He has served as reviewer for NSF and has chaired several sessions at IEEE conferences. Currently, he is serving as the editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the areas of modulation and coding, multirate and multicarrier communications, broadband wireless communications, and reconfigurable communication systems.