Antonio Pérez Yuste


Antonio Pérez Yuste is a professor of Telecommunications Engineering at Technical University of Madrid, Spain. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an appointed member to the IEEE Spain Section Executive Committee, and an appointed member to the IEEE History Committee.

Biography

Prof. Perez Yuste joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at Technical University of Madrid as an assistant professor in 1991, where he carried out research on Digital Communication Systems. In 1995, he changed his position to associate professor, being involved with Numerical Methods Applied to Electromagnetic Field problems. And, in 2008, he was finally promoted to a tenured professor position in the same university.
Since joining to the Technical University of Madrid, he has held some different academic positions: he was vice director of the Technical University of Madrid's School of Telecommunications from 1997 to 2001, director of that school from 2001 to 2004, head of the Technical University of Madrid President's Cabinet from 2004 to 2012, UPM Sino-Spanish Campus Director at Shanghai from September 2012 to February 2014, and responsible for the UPM Sino-Spanish Cooperation Office in Madrid from March 2014 to July 2014. In 2014, he was appointed under the Chinese Government's prestigious ‘National High-End Foreign Expert Program’ to a 3-year Guest Professorship at Shanghai's Tongji University. Currently, he is a Guest Professor to Tongji College of Electronics and Information Engineering, in Shanghai.
From 1999 to 2009, he was director of a postgraduate program on Satellite Communications at Technical University of Madrid; from 2007 to 2010, he was also in charge of a Summer Course on Satellite Technology Applications and Services offered in the Technical University of Madrid Summer Campus at the Royal Site of La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain; and from January 2010 to December 2012, he was Director of a Master's Program Degree on Satellite Technology at Technical University of Madrid
At present, his research interests are related to the propagation of electromagnetic waves and wireless channel modelling, and to the history of electrical and electronic engineering, with special emphasis in the history of telecommunications and the development of the information society. Prof. Perez Yuste's historical studies have been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE and have been presented in different IEEE International Conferences. Some remarkable results in this area were the organization of an International Exhibition dedicated to Nikola Tesla in Madrid, Spain and a research work on the Spanish Engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and his Telekino, developed from 2004 to 2006, which led to the dedication of an IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing on March 2007. This Milestone was, and still is, the first and the only one promoted in Spain.
He has taught undergraduate courses on Analog and Digital Communications, Electromagnetism and Wave Propagation and their related laboratories. He has also taught undergraduate courses on Policy and Regulation of Telecommunications in Spain, and graduate courses on the History of Telecommunications. At present, he teaches an undergraduate first-year course on Introduction to Telecommunications, an undergraduate second-year course on Theory of Communications, a graduate course on Wireless Communications, and a graduate course on Information and Communication Technologies and the Information Society, all at Technical University of Madrid.
He gained his B.Eng. in RadioCommunications, M.Eng. in Telecommunications and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all from the Technical University of Madrid. His Ph.D. thesis was related to the history of the Spanish Telephone Service. He also obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the National University for Distance Education, Spain.
He received the ‘INISEL Award’ to the best Bachelor Thesis, in 1991, and was distinguished with the ‘Faculty Collaboration Award’ from the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Telecomunicación in 1996. He also received the ‘Technical University of Madrid Medal’ in 2004 for his outstanding work as a faculty director, and the ‘Technical University of Madrid Prize to Innovation in Education’, in 2009, for his best educational practices carried out in the past five years.
Prof. Perez Yuste is IEEE Member, IEEE Senior Member, Member of IEEE History Committee, and Member of the IEEE Spain Section Executive Committee. He was IEEE Milestones Coordinator for IEEE Regions 8 to 10 during two years, member of IEEE Awards Sub-Committee in the IEEE History Committee for one year, and Appointed Member of the SHOT International Outreach Committee for three years. As a graduate student at Technical University of Madrid, he was originally the promoter of its Alumni Social Site in LinkedIn, and is currently acting as his Community Manager.

Selected publications

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