Rate My Professor Andrea Fumagalli

Andrea Fumagalli is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is also an affiliate faculty member with the Computer Science department. Fumagalli earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1992 and his Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 1987. His career includes serving as Assistant Professor in the Electronics Engineering Department at Politecnico di Torino from 1992 to 1998 and as Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts from 1994 to 1995. In August 1997, he joined UT Dallas as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, was promoted to Professor in 2005, and headed the Telecommunications Engineering Program from 2007 to 2012. He holds a Guest Professor position at Keio University, Japan.

Fumagalli's research interests include aspects of optical, wireless, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud networks, along with protocol design and performance evaluation. He founded the Open Networking Advanced Research (OpNeAR) lab at UT Dallas and serves as Director of OpenLab, an industry-driven initiative validating interoperability of hardware and software with OpenROADM Multi-Source Agreement specifications. He has published approximately 250 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, accumulating over 4,900 citations according to Google Scholar. Among his influential works are 'CORD: Contention resolution by delay lines' (1996), 'IP restoration vs. WDM protection: Is there an optimal choice?' (2000), 'Quadro-star: A high performance optical WDM star network' (2002), and 'Cooperative and reliable ARQ protocols for energy harvesting wireless sensor nodes' (2007). His contributions have earned him the Best Teaching Award from the Electrical Engineering department at UT Dallas in 2002, the Best Thesis Award for his Ph.D. advisee Isabella Cerutti in 2002, participation in an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour in 2000, and co-recipiency of three best paper awards, including one in 1999 for 'An Optimal Design Algorithm for Photonic Slot Routing Networks Migrating to Optical Packet Switching'.