Manel Guerrero-Zapata, PhD Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor / Professor Agregat) Computer Architecture Department (DAC) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Barcelona Tech UPC-AC D6-212 Campus Nord. Jordi Girona 1-3. 08034 Barcelona SPAIN E-mail: manel dot guerrero-zapata at upc dot edu Google Scholar citations ResearchGate profile ORCID profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Security, Wireless networks, Routing protocols, Networking. [wordle]

WORK EXPERIENCE

2003-now: University professor in Barcelona:

• 2010-now: Associate Professor at the DAC in Barcelona Tech. Teaching several programming courses.
  
• 2005-2010: Assistant Professor at the DAC in Barcelona Tech. Teaching network programming.
  
• 2003-2005: Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Teaching information theory and cryptography.
  

  1998-2003: Researcher in the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki:

• 2002-2003: Senior Research Scientist. Attended to many of the most useful management and leadership courses.
  
• 1999-2002: Research Scientist. Worked on a technically successful product prototype of a new portable device.
  
• 1998-1999: Assistant Research Engineer. Worked on a successful product prototype of a secure router.
  

EDUCATION

• 2003 - July 14th 2006: PhD in Computer Architecture "Securing and enhancing routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks", Barcelona Tech. Spain.
  
• 1997 - July 1999: MSc in Computer Engineering (Enginyeria Informática), FIB - UPC.
• 1993 - July 1997: BSc in Computer Engineering (Enginyeria Tècnica d'Informàtica de Gestió), EUPVG - UPC.

SUPERVISED PhD THESIS

• July 26th 2016: "Energy Sharing in Smart Grids: A Game Theory Approach" by Tarek AlSkaif.
  
• February 16th 2015: "The Use of Computational Intelligence for Security in Named Data Networking" by Amin Karami.
  
• July 23rd 2013: "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks, Security and Key Management" by Islam Almalkawi.
  
• May 3rd 2013: "Reputation systems and secure communication in vehicular networks" by David Antolino Rivas.
  
• January 30th 2013: "Channel assignment protocols for multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks" by Maryam Amiri Nehzad. Co-supervisors: Llorenç Cerdà Alabern, Manel Guerrero Zapata.
  

PUBLICATIONS

• List of selected publications: JCR publications, books, other selected publications and Internet Drafts.

CORE VALUES

• Always positive. Integrity. Continuous learning and Continuous teaching. Overdelivering. Passion.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

• Languages: Fluent in English. Basic conversational Finnish. Mother tongues: Catalan and Spanish.
• Music: I play the baritone saxophone and I'm in a saxophone quartet. I also started playing with the diatonic harmonica.
• Art: I draw with charcoal; mainly portraits.
• Olympic Weightlifting:
  • President of the former Barcelona Weightlifting Club from October 2012 till February 2016.
    
  • Athlete: I compete as master athlete since 2009 -having competed in a couple of international competitions.
    
  • Coach: I was one of the Club's coaches. (Nivel 1 en Halterofilia. ROPE 2015).
  • Referee: National Category 2 Referee since 2012 and National Category 1 Referee since 2015 and until 2018.
• Programmer: Always a programmer at heart. Nowadays I have the great pleasure and honor to teach how to program to university students. I wrote a free PDF book in Spanish about how to program in IA32 assembly.
• Other personal interests: Continuous learning and personal growth, teaching and mentoring philosophies, positive psychology and the science of happiness, persuasion and cognitive biasses, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). And, the design of Alternative Models of Reality Perception for better Decision Making.