Scholar in residence 8 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Senior Mem- ber, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and the specialization Latu Sensu degree in telecommunications engineering from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBa), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1996 and 1997, respectively, and the M.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees in physics, electrical, and computer engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in March 2001 and March 2004, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow and later an adjunct professor (docent) in statistical signal processing and communications theory at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland from 2004 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2011, respectively. Since 2011, he has been a professor of electrical engineering at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
From April 2015 to August 2018, he simultaneously held a full tenured professorship also at the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Ritsumeikan Uni- versity, Japan. His research interests include a wide range of topics on wireless communications and signal processing, including communications theory, esti- mation theory, optimization theory, statistical modeling, metasurfaces and pa- rameterizable electromagnetic structures, waveform design, integrated sensing and communications, over-the-air computing, wireless localization, cognitive radio, wireless security, MIMO systems, ultrawideband and millimeter wave communications, full-duplex and cognitive radio, compressive sensing, energy harvesting networks, random networks, connected vehicles networks, and many other topics.
He received the Uenohara Award at Tokyo University in 2000 for his master’s thesis work. He has been a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at several IEEE international conferences, including the ICNC in 2025, WPMC in 2023, ISWCS in 2016 and more. He was also a co-recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award by the Japanese Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2023. He was awarded various prestigious Fellowships from organizations such as the NICT (twice), the JSPS, the Heiwa Nakajima, respectively in 2018, 2015, 2013, and 2010. He served as an executive editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2017 to 2021, as an editor for the IEEE Communication Letters from 2021 to 2024, and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2014 to 2017, and for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2009 to 2014, respectively. He is currently serving as an editor to the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
At Digital Futures, we will work on various topics of two key areas of modern wireless communications, namely: 1) Integrated Sensing, Communications and Computing, with a particular interest in waveform design and transceiver optimization; and 2) Near-Field and Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Structures (including stacked metasurfaces, intelligent reconfigurable surfaces, and XL/Gigantic MIMO) as means to improve performance and robustness of the work in (1), as well as their generalization to multi-user.
Contact: gabreu@constructor.university
