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David Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez PhD Student Broadband Wireless Networking Lab School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Office:       Centergy One, Room 5158,       75 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318 Phone: 404.894.6616 Fax: 404.894.7883 E-mail:david.gutierrez@ece.gatech.edu

Biography

David Manuel Gutiérrez was born in Madrid, Spain in 1985. In July 2009 he obtained his Engineering Degree in Telecommunications from the Escuela Técnica de Ingenierías Informática y de Telecomunicación within the Universidad de Granada. In May 2011 he obtained his MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a fellowship of “la Caixa”.

During the summer of 2007 he held a three-month long internship position at the Audio Department of Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen in Erlangen, Germany, where he worked on watermarking techniques for audio signals and delay optimization for advanced audio codecs.

He received an EU-Erasmus scholarship to finish his Telecommunications Degree at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. On April 2008 his academic stay made possible to join the Broadband Mobile Communications Networks Department of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute also in Berlin as a student research assistant where he remained until June 2009. During that time he was involved in projects linked to Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular systems and in that context he pursued his Degree Thesis with the title “Adaptive Modulation and Coding for 3GPP LTE Systems” under the supervision of Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel.

Currently, he is a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab under the supervision of Pr. Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz, with a fellowship of Fundación Caja Madrid. His current research is focused on Next Generation Wireless Networks.

Selected Honors and Awards

• One of the top 10 finalists out of 91 participants of the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (GTRIC) Innovation Competition, for conducting innovative research of high impact.
   
  
• Fundación Caja Madrid Fellowship, awarded to outstanding graduate students from Spain for a PhD program with full funding support for the duration of the 2011-2013 academic courses. This fellowship is given personally by the Prince and the Princess of Spain.
   
  
• ``la Caixa´´ Fellowship, awarded to outstanding graduate students from Spain for a master's program in the US with full funding support for the duration of the 2009-2011 academic courses. This fellowship is given personally by the King and the Queen of Spain.
   
  
• Ranked ninth in the Spanish National Ranking of Undergraduate Excellence.
   
  
• Extraordinary Final Degree Award, awarded from University of Granada to the first graduated student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the 2008-2009 academic course.
   
  
• Extraordinary Final High School Award for having obtained the highest transcript of records in the region of Andalucia, Spain and being holder of one of the top 50 transcripts in the nation.