{"id":2,"date":"2015-04-08T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:21:32","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:19% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2023\/09\/giacomo-bacci.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-689 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2023\/09\/giacomo-bacci.jpg 568w, https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2023\/09\/giacomo-bacci-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Giacomo Bacci<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member, URSI Senior Member<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dii.unipi.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell&#8217;Informazione<\/a><br>University of Pisa<br>Via Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone: +39-050-2217-666<br>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:giacomo.bacci@unipi.it\">giacomo.bacci@unipi.it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2002, 2004, and 2008, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, I was a visiting student research collaborator with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Princeton University<\/a>, Princeton, NJ, USA. From 2008 to 2014, I was a post-doctoral research fellow with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Pisa<\/a>. From 2008 to 2012, I was also a software engineer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiser.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiser Srl<\/a>, Livorno, Italy, and, from 2012 to 2014, I was also enrolled as a visiting post-doctoral research associate with Princeton University. From 2015 to 2021, I was a product manager for interactive satellite broadband communications at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbigroup.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MBI Srl<\/a>, Pisa, Italy. Since 2022, I joined the University of Pisa, where I am now an associate professor. Since 2023, I am a Senior Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ursi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Union of Radio Science (URSI)<\/a> and, since 2024, I am a Senior Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am the recipient of the FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for career development (IOF) 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/302520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GRAND-CRU<\/a>, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in 2013, the Best Student Paper Award from the International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference (WDD) in 2007, the Best Session Paper at the ESA Workshop on EGNOS Performance and Applications in 2005, and the 2014 URSI Young Scientist Award. I was also named as an Exemplary Reviewer 2012 for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and as an Exemplary Editor 2024 and 2025 for IEEE Communications Letters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2025\/10\/cv_GiacomoBacci_2025_10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba Curriculum vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Wireless communications<\/li>\n<li>Signal processing for communications<\/li>\n<li>Satellite communications<\/li>\n<li>Resource allocation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Professional service<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I am serving as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/signalprocessingsociety.org\/community-involvement\/signal-processing-communications-and-networking\/spcom-tc-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee<\/a> of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the 2025-2026 term. I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comsoc.org\/publications\/journals\/ieee-comml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEEE Communications Letters<\/a>, and as a guest editor for the special issue <i>Satellite-Terrestrial Communication Networks: Physical Layer Design, Constellation Engineering, and Intelligent Networking<\/i>, to appear on MDPI Sensors. I recently served as the Finance Chair for <a href=\"https:\/\/spawc2024.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEEE SPAWC 2024<\/a>, and as the Publication co-Chair (with N. Acito, University of Pisa, Italy) for <a href=\"https:\/\/eusipco2025.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUSIPCO 2025<\/a>, and I will serve as the TCP co-Chair for <a href=\"https:\/\/icmlcn2026.ieee-icmlcn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICMLCN 2026<\/a>. I also served as the lead guest editor for the special issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springeropen.com\/collections\/SPWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Advanced signal processing for sustainable and low footprint wireless communications<\/i><\/a>, recently appeared on the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"left\">Open positions<\/h4>\n<p>Please check the dedicated <a href=\"open-positions\/\">tab<\/a> for students, researchers, and visiting faculty.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giacomo Bacci Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member, URSI Senior Member Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell&#8217;InformazioneUniversity of PisaVia Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-dark btn-sm unipi-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/giacomo_bacci\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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