I am interested in theoretical and practical aspects of game theory and information theory. The application domains that motivate my research include communication systems, power systems, behavioral influence, and distributed decision making.
Postdoctoral Associate, Alcatel-Lucent Chair at Supélec, Orsay, France. Jul. 2011 - Dec. 2011
Research Engineer, France Télécom - Orange, Issy les Moulineaux, France, Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2011
Education
Ph.D., Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, 2011
MSc., EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2007
BSc. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, 2005
Editorial Boards
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017 - present
Editor, IET Smart Grids, 2018 - present
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2020 - present
Guest Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue on ‘‘Artificial Intelligence Powered Edge Computing for the Internet of Things’’, 2020
International Research Projects
Principal (French) Investigator of EU funded H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 project: “Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling scalablE smart griD Deployment (TESTBED2)”. Grant Agreement no. 872172. (web)
Principal (French) Investigator of EU funded ERA-NET-MED-2015 project: “COMMunication systems with renewable Energy micro-griD (COM-MED)”. EU Project locally handled by ANR under Grant Agreement ANR-15-NMED-0009-03. (web)
Principal Investigator of H2020 project CYBERNETS under EU Grant agreement 659316. (web)
Acknowledgments and Awards
Fellowship of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. Host: School of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Apr. 2019
Fellowship “Make our Planet Great Again” of the Embassy of France in the United States of America, received jointly with Prof. Ali Tajer in 2017
Prime d’encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR), granted by INRIA in 2015
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellow. Individual Fellowship, Class of 2015.
IEEE Senior Member, 2015.
Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM)), 2009
Alban Fellow. the European Commission Programme of High Level Scholarships for Graduate Students from Latin America. Grant E06M101130CO.
Baccalaureate Honoris Causa granted by Colegio Nacional de Bachillerato - Instituto Técnico on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Colombia. Santander de Quilichao, Colombia, December 2000.
City Council Agreement No. 028 of 1999 to create the award “Ciudad de los Samanes - Samir Alberto Medina Perlaza” in Santander de Quilichao, Colombia. This award is given to the top-ranked students in the national exams to access higher education in a ceremony held every year at the City Hall since 1999.