Electrical Supervisor

Idoia Ochoa-Alvarez

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CONTACT

E-mail: ******@********.*** http://www.stanford.edu/ iochoa

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

EDUCATION

PhD in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Tsachy Weissman) 09/2010 - Present

Current GPA: 4.033

TECNUN, University of Navarra, Donostia, Spain

Telecommunications Engineering Degree 09/2003 - 02/2009

Ranking position: 2 out of 51.

Dissertation Topic: Iterative Decoding Techniques for the Relay Channel.

Supervisor: P. M. Crespo GPA: 10/10

Lulea Tekniska Universitet, Lulea, Sweden

Erasmus Program 08/2007 - 01/2008

Data Compression, Information Theory and Coding, Communication Systems, Signal Processing

INTERESTS

CEIT, Centre of Studies and Technical Research of Gipuzkoa, Spain

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant in the Electrical and Engineering Department 2008 - 2010

Supervisor: P. M. Crespo.

Conducted research in the relay channel, source-channel coding for non-uniform and cyclo-

stationary sources, LDPC and Turbo codes, etc. within the group INTECOM (Communi-

cation Systems and Mathematical Principles of Information)

Projects:

MIMO technologies in multiterminal wireless networks, funded by the Spanish Ministry

of Education and Science and by the European Regional Development Fund, 2007 2010.

Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks (COMON-

SENS), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

Supervisor: A. Irizar.

Design of the PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Procedure) with VHDL, for a UWB

(Ultra Wide Band) system.

TECNUN, University of Navarra, Donostia, Spain

Teaching Assistant 2003 - 2004

Courses: Laboratory of Circuits and Physics I

Collaborator Student in the Electrical and Communications Department 2005

Working on Cadence circuit design and lay-out

I. Ochoa, P. Crespo, J. Del Ser and M. Hernaez, Turbo Joint Source-Channel Coding of Non-

SCIENTIFIC

Uniform Memoryless Sources in the Bandwidth-Limited Regime, IEEE Communications Let-

JOURNALS

ters, Vol. 14, No. 4, April 2010.

I. Ochoa, P. Crespo and M. Hernaez, LDPC Codes for Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources and

Unequal Energy Allocation, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14, No. 9, September 2010.

I. Ochoa, P. Crespo, J. Del Ser and M. Hernaez, Turbo Joint Source-Channel Coding of Cycle-

CONFERENCE

PRESENTATIONS Stationary Sources in the Bandwidth-Limited Regime, The 2nd International Conference on

Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT), Barcelona (Spain), May 2010.

M. Hernaez, P. Crespo, J. Del Ser and I. Ochoa, Cdigos LDGM concatenados para la transmisin

de fuentes correlacionadas para canales de difusin, XXIV National Assembly of the International

Union of Radio Science (URSI), Santander (Spain), September 2009.

Ranked 23th out of 147 candidates in the EE Qualifying Examination at Stanford (2010-2011)

SCHOLARSHIPS

La Caixa Fellowship Program to extend studies in the USA (2010 2012).

AND AWARDS

Candidate for the Telecommunication Engineerings Best Final Thesis of 2008-2009.

Master Thesis funded by Telefonica Fellowship.

Information Theory A and B, Universal Schemes in Information Theory, Statistical Signal Pro-

RELEVANT

cessing, Wireless Communications, Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control.

COURSES

Theory of Probability A

Fundamentals of Molecuar Evolution

Reviewer: IEEE Communications Letters.

ADDITIONAL

Languages: Native: Spanish, Pro ciency: English, Intermediate: German and Basque.

INFORMATION

Computer skills: Programming Languages: C/C++, Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Win-

dows, Applications: MatLab, LATEX, MS O ce.

Student member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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