CV — Andrea Panebianco

Contact

Email: anp0105@auburn.edu

Office: Shelby Center for Engineering Technology, 345 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, AL, USA

Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy (Nov. 2022 – Dec. 2025)
Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2022)
Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Sep. 2015 – Mar. 2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA (Jan. 2026 – Present)
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA (Jan. 2025 – Jul. 2025)
Teaching Assistant (IoT and Big Data Sensing, Compression, and Communication)
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Mar. 2024 – Jun. 2024 | Mar. 2023 – Jun. 2023)
Research Intern
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Sep. 2020 – Jun. 2021)

Francesco Carassa Award – GTTI Annual Meeting 2023
Italian National Group on Telecommunications and Information Theory (GTTI) Annual Meeting 2023, Rome, Italy (Sep. 2023)
Student Award "TLC for a Better World" – Innovative Prototype Category
TelcomDay 2019, held at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Dec. 2019)

Appointed Organizing Committee Member
Third Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT 2026), held in conjunction with the 27th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc 2026), Tokyo, Japan (Nov. 2026)
Technical Program Committee Member
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2026), Washington, DC, USA (Oct. 2026)
Finance and Registration Chair
24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2026), hosted by The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (Jun. 2026)
Technical Program Committee Chair
Third Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC 2026), held in conjunction with the 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2026), hosted by The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (Jun. 2026)

A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach in Underwater Networks
Invited talk delivered at the Winter School on Underwater Network Simulations and Experimentation (UNWiS), Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy (Feb. 2, 2024)
Design and Experimentation of an Integrated Acoustic/LoRa System for Transmission of Multimedia Sensor Data over an Internet of Underwater Things
Invited talk delivered at the seminar Development and Applications of Innovative Materials and Processes for the Diagnostics and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (May 18, 2021)

Co-supervisor of Master's Thesis
Student: Dario Scuderi — Thesis title: "Smart Carrier Selection in OFDM-based Acoustic Networks for the Internet of Underwater Things"
Master’s Degree in Communications Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Jan. 2025 – Oct. 2025)