Sergi Abadal
Sergi Abadal
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Sergi Abadal received the PhD in Computer Architecture from the Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in July 2016. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Architecture of UPC and Director of the Nanonetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat). He is the recipient of a Starting Grant, called WINC, from the European Research Council (ERC) and also the coordinator of the EIC PATHFINDER project CERBERUS, while in the past he led several other national and EU projects. He is the author of 150+ publications in first-tier venues in very diverse fields from nanotechnology to computer architecture. Thanks to his efforts, in 2025, he received the “Matilde Ucelay” national research award from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities as the best young researcher in Spain working in engineering. He also received the “Agustín de Betancourt” medal awarded by the Real Academia de la Ingeniería annually to the top 10 young researchers in Spain in 2024, the ACM NanoCom Outstanding Milestone Award in 2022 and the Young Investigator Award of the Nano Communication Networks Journal in September 2019. Sergi is also very active in terms of service, education, and outreach. He served in over 50 workshops and conferences. He is also active in editorial work with different positions such as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Digital Media of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (since 2024) and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (since 2023), and others. He has given over 20 invited talks with an accumulated audience of 280.000 people, and supervises or has supervised 70+ MSc students and 18 PhD students, including industrial PhDs with Telefónica Research, Qilimanjaro or Qualcomm.