Pau Closas

About

Pau Closas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, since 2016. He received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He also holds a MS degree in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering from UPC since 2014. In 2003, he joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, as a Research Assistant. In 2008 he was Research Visitor at the Stony Brook University (SBU), NY, USA. In 2009 he joined the CTTC, where he was Senior Researcher and Head of the Statistical Inference for Communications and Positioning Department. His primary areas of interest include statistical and array signal processing, estimation and detection theory, stochastic filtering, robust statistics, and game theory, with primary applications in positioning systems, target tracking and wireless communications.

He is the recipient of the EURASIP Best PhD Thesis Award 2014, the 9th Duran Farell Award for Technology Research, the 2016 ION Early Achievement Award, or the 2023 Harry Rowe Mimno Award, in recognition to his contributions to navigation systems and signal processing fields. He served in the organization committees of flagship conferences, for instance, as Publications Chair of the IEEE SSP 2016 and the IEEE ICASSP 2020 conferences. He is also Guest Editor of special issues in the IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technologies, the Proceedings of the IEEE, and the IEEE Sig. Proc. Magazine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine.

 

Selected Publications

• Elvira, Victor, Closas, Pau, Martino, Luca (2021). Importance Gaussian Quadrature. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69,474-488. 10.1109/TSP.2020.3045526
• Li, Haoqing, Medina, Daniel, Vila-Valls, Jordi, Closas, Pau (2021). Robust Variational-based Kalman Filter for Outlier Rejection with Correlated Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69,357-369. 10.1109/TSP.2020.3042944
• Medina, Daniel, Vilà-Valls, Jordi, Chaumette, Eric, Vincent, François, Closas, Pau (2021). Cramér-Rao bound for a mixture of real- and integer-valued parameter vectors and its application to the linear regression model. Signal Processing, 179,107792. 10.1016/J.SIGPRO.2020.107792
• Medina, Daniel, Li, Haoqing, Vilà-Valls, Jordi, Closas, Pau (2021). Robust Filtering Techniques for RTK Positioning in Harsh Propagation Environments. Sensors, 21(4),1250. 10.3390/S21041250
• Ortega, Lorenzo, Poulliat, Charly, Boucheret, Marie Laure, Aubault Roudier, Marion, Al-Bitar, Hanaa, Closas, Pau (2021). Low Complexity Robust Data Demodulation for GNSS. Sensors, 21(4),1341. 10.3390/S21041341
• Ortega, Lorenzo, Vilà-Valls, Jordi, Poulliat, Charly, Closas, Pau (2021). GNSS data demodulation over fading environments: Antipodal and M ‐ary CSK modulations. IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 15(2),113-127. 10.1049/RSN2.12017
• Pastor, Francisco, Garcia-Gonzalez, Jorge, Gandarias, Juan M., Medina, Daniel, Closas, Pau, Garcia-Cerezo, Alfonso J., Gomez-de-Gabriel, Jesus M. (2021). Bayesian and Neural Inference on LSTM-based Object Recognition from Tactile and Kinesthetic Information. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(1),231-238. 10.1109/LRA.2020.3038377
• Borsoi, Ricardo A., Imbiriba, Tales, Closas, Pau, Bermudez, Jose Carlos M., Richard, Cedric (2020). Kalman Filtering and Expectation Maximization for Multitemporal Spectral Unmixing. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, ,1-5. 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3025781
• Espluga, Lorenzo Ortega, Aubault-Roudier, Marion, Poulliat, Charly, Boucheret, Marie Laure, Al-Bitar, Hanaa, Closas, Pau (2020). LLR approximation for fading channels using a Bayesian approach. IEEE Communications Letters, 24(6),1244-1248. 10.1109/LCOMM.2020.2978832
• Vilà-Valls, Jordi, Linty, Nicola, Closas, Pau, Dovis, Fabio, Curran, James T. (2020). Survey on signal processing for GNSS under ionospheric scintillation: Detection, monitoring, and mitigation. Navigation, 67(3),511-536. 10.1002/NAVI.379
• Vilà-Valls, Jordi, Vivet, Damien, Chaumette, Eric, Vincent, François, Closas, Pau (2020). Recursive Linearly Constrained Wiener Filter for Robust Multi-Channel Signal Processing. Signal Processing, 167,107291. 10.1016/J.SIGPRO.2019.107291
• J. Vilà-Valls, M. Navarro, P. Closas, M. Bertinelli Synchronization Challenges in Deep Space Communications, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Magazine, 2019, 34(1), 16-27
• E. Arias-de-Reyna, P. Closas, D. Dardari, P.M. Djuric Crowd-based Learning of Spatial Fields for the IoT, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 35(5), 2018, 130-139
• D. Borio, H. Li, P. Closas, Huber’s Non-Linearity for GNSS Interference Mitigation, Sensors, 18(7), 2018, 2217
• P. Closas, A. Gusi-Amigó, Direct Position Estimation of GNSS Receivers, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 34(5), 2017, 72-84
• J. Vilà-Valls, P. Closas, J.T. Curran, Multi-frequency GNSS Robust Carrier Tracking for Ionospheric Scintillation Mitigation, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 7, 2017, A26
• M.G. Amin, P. Closas, A. Broumandan, J.L. Volakis Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Authentication in Satellite- Based Navigation Systems [Scanning the Issue], Proceedings of the IEEE, 104(6), 2016, 1169-1173
• D. Dardari, P. Closas, P. Djuric, Indoor Tracking: Theory, Methods, and Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 64(4), 2015, 1263-1278

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