Mattia Brambilla

Senior Researcher in Telecommunications

Summary

Senior researcher at Politecnico di Milano. Expertise in cutting-edge wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Proven record of developing and deploying advanced localization solutions for 5G/6G, connected mobility, and IoT systems. Skilled in leading multidisciplinary teams, securing competitive funding, industrial collaborations, and generating commercial IP, including 3 patents (1 granted worldwide).
Technical skills: RTLS, 5G/6G, V2X, Matlab, Python, LATEX, signal/data processing, federated learning, sensor fusion, estimation theory, localization, multi-target tracking, beamforming and tracking, aircraft radar surveillance.
Management skills: Scientific responsible of IoTLab, R&D project management as a principal investigator or work package manager, project leadership and collaboration with industrial partners, IP generation, grant & proposal writing.
IEEE Senior Member.

Education

Ph.D. Information Technology

Politecnico di Milano

M.Sc. Telecommunication Engineering

Politecnico di Milano

B.Sc. Telecommunication Engineering

Politecnico di Milano

Interests

5G/6G positioning and wireless sensing V2X systems and connected automated mobility Cooperative localization and multi-target tracking IoT systems Signal processing, sensor fusion, and estimation theory Federated learning

Scientific activities

2024 - 2027 — Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.

2024 - now — Associate Editor for ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.

2019 - now — Reviewer for: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Access, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Data Descriptions, Scientific Reports, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, GPS Solutions, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, MDPI Sensors, MDPI Electronics, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.

Awards

2025 — Vehicular Communications 2024 Best Paper Award for the manuscript “Decentralized federated learning for extended sensing in 6G connected vehicles”.

2024 — National Scientific Habilitation, Associate Professor in Italy for IINF-03/A Telecommunications.

2021 — Springer Award, outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Information Technology PhD program, Politecnico di Milano.

2019 — Best Thesis Award (ex-aequo), “Il Quadrato della Radio” for the MSc thesis on cooperative ITS.

2018 — Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Freiburg, Germany.