Awards

Best PhD Thesis Award in Telecommunication Engineering (2009-2012), University of Malaga.
Contributions to random matrix theory and the statistical analysis of 4G multi-antenna systems.
Best ‘Statistica Sinica’ paper at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2020.
Our paper “Asymptotics of eigenstructure of sample correlation matrices for high-dimensional spiked models” [preprint] was selected by Statistica Sinica and invited for their special session at JSM 2020. This session (with only 3 selected papers) is organised only once every 2 years.

Honours & Distinctions

Elected member of the Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Jan. 2020–Jan. 2026.
The TC is responsible for the organization of flagship IEEE conferences in signal processing (e.g., ICASSP, SPAWC, SSP workshop) and for the nomination and coordination of awards in the IEEE SP Society.
IEEE Senior Member, since Mar. 2019.