Andrea Panebianco
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Email: anp0105@auburn.edu
Office: Shelby Center for Engineering Technology, 345 West Magnolia Avenue Auburn, AL 36849
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. I earned my Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Palermo, Italy, in December 2025. My research focuses on the design of energy-efficient and adaptive communication protocols for the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT). I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering in March 2019 and my Master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering in October 2022, both from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy. In 2023, I was honored with the Francesco Carassa Award, awarded during the Italian National Group on Telecommunications and Information Theory (GTTI) Annual Meeting, in recognition of the best presentation and publication. Beyond underwater acoustic communications, my work explores Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms for reliable and resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) systems.