Short Biography

Fabio Principe was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Napoli), Italy, in January 28, 1979. He received the Master Degree (cum Laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), in May 2003.

In 2004, he started his Ph.D. course at Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Pisa, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Luise (chief of Digital Signal Processing for Communication Laboratory, DSPCoLa). During this period, he focused his interests on signal processing and synchronization algorithms, CDMA techniques, positioning systems (GPS, SBAS, Galileo, and GLONASS), and low-complexity algorithms for software-radio applications. In particular, he developed the signal processing and synchronization library of SOFT-REC, a GPS/SBAS software receiver (fully implemented in C/C++ language), in collaboration with INTECS S.p.A., under ESA contract (old ESA additional contact). He also had collaborations with the ex-LABEN S.p.A. (now ThalesAlenia Space, Milan) in some projects (GSR Galileo project, ACE+ project, and GARDA project). All these activities were done under the supervision of Prof. M. Luise. Furthermore, he spent 7 months (from the end of September 2005 to the end of April 2006) at the Communication Sciences Institute - University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA (USA), as visiting scholar, working in collaboration with Prof. Keith M. Chugg on Iterative Detection problems using Iterative Message Passing Algorithms.

In December 31 2006, he ended his Ph.D. course and, in May 25 2007, he got the Ph.D. grade in Information Engineering - Curriculum: Communication Systems.

In February 26 2007, he started to work as system engineer in the E.M. Framework Design Laboratory of  IDS S.p.A. 

Currently, his research activity is focused on GNSS systems and related augmentation techniques (e.g., GBAS and SBAS systems) for air-navigation applications, such as, aircraft and helicopter land-approaches (APV-I/II and CAT-I requirements) and procedures, software-defined radio (SDR) technologies, and digital beam-forming (DBF) techniques.