Silvio Mandelli

Experience

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  Corsacra Choir

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2017

  Director

  I was the director of a 40 polyphonic choir with four voices. We started as ~20 people in 2007 and we have continuously improved in skill and people until now. Our repertory is holy music, afro-gospel and polyphonic choral. We sing at major celebrations in our church and we do charity concerts to raise funds for the association "Il Sahel Fiorirà" in order to build schools and infrastructure in Camerun.

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  Arguo S.r.l.

  Mar 2009 - Mar 2010

  Web Designer

  Writing server, database, HTML and Style Sheets code for Webpages.Content Management as second task

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  Politecnico di Milano

  Jan 2013 - Feb 2016

  PhD Student

  I have finished in January 2016 my PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano.My fields of interest and my main skills regard mathematics, statistics, machine learning, digital communications and signal processing.My main research topic is about digital communications issues, especially regarding phase noise modelling, Bayesian tracking applied to Information Rate estimation and demodulator design. I have studied also MIMO channel estimation and bit and power loading algorithms, proposing new solutions. In my minor research topics, I have first developed a machine-learning algorithm, where also statistics is applied to improve peer based rating systems, like the academic review process. At last, I have briefly studied the impact of spectrum holes and weather impairments in Synthetic Aperture Radars in a Politecnico di Milano spinoff, TRE. Show less

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  Capgemini

  Feb 2016 - Jun 2016

  Analyst Consultant
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  Vodafone

  Feb 2016 - Jun 2016

  Digital Project Manager

  As a Project Manager in the Customer Product&Processes of Vodafone Italy I am coordinating resources to develop solutions together with providers in order to satisfy the business needs of our internal customers, reporting directly to the E-Care/M-Care Capabilities Manager.Main Projects:- Chat Genesys integration with VF and new developments- Vodafone Store Locator in website and app- Integration of Selfcare Diagnostic capability of the device in the VF app- Update issues of VF App- Other New Web and App CapabilitiesMain roles:- Collecting of the project requirements with the Vodafone Online Services- Checking project consistency supported by business cases- Analysing requirements with the provider- Validating functional specifications- Defining of the delivering plan- Coordinating people involved in User Acceptance Tests- Releasing projects according to every stakeholder impacted by the project Show less

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  Nokia Bell Labs

  Jul 2016 - now

  - Leading algorithm and architecture design of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) research solutions and demonstrators.- Driving and contributing to product’s feature studies in the area of layer two (L2) real-time operations. Specific areas are link adaptation, packet scheduler, QoS handling, and energy efficient operations.- Contributing to research lab vision and pushing personal and other colleagues’ transfers to mobile networks and fixed networks business units.- Development and management of the C++ system level simulator used in the group to evaluate wireless systems in realistic scenarios, and to transfer features to business units.- Pivotal role in IPR generation and protection.- Technical management of ca. 10 researchers working on ISAC and radio resource management.- Coaching of students and colleagues, multiplying their efforts and unleashing their potential.- Management of internal and external research projects on 6G wireless networks. Show less - Algorithm and architecture design of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) research solutions and demonstrators, culminating in the world-first 6G ISAC demonstrator at 2023 Mobile WorldCongress.- Contributing to research lab vision and pushing personal and other colleagues’ transfers to mobile networks and fixed networks business units.- Development and management of the C++ system level simulator used in the group to evaluate wireless systems in realistic scenarios, and to transfer features to business units.- Driving product’s feature studies in the area of layer two (L2) realtime operations.- Pivotal role in IPR generation and protection.- Technical management of 10 students and experienced researchers working on ISAC and radio resource management.- Coaching of students and colleagues, multiplying their efforts and unleashing their potential.- Management of internal and external 6G projects. Show less With time, I became a critical core research stakeholder for Nokia’s mobile networks R&D business unit, landing multiple of my research into new products and features.- Contributed to the 5G positioning activities inside the company, leading the 5GCAR Vulnerable Road User Protection algorithm development and integration, showcased in July 2019. My research on joint time of arrival (ToA) and angle of arrival (AoA) led to demonstrators and Nokia’s decision to productize it.- Ramped up algorithm design and investigations in the area of radio resource management, delivering multiple disruptive features’ development before their implementation in Nokia’s L2 packet scheduler. I contributed in designing forward-looking 5G orchestration frameworks for network slicing that are now being studied for deployment.- Acquired system and link level simulation expertise, allowing to investigate my ideas in complex and realistic setups.- Protecting multiple business-critical concepts and standard essential ideas with patents.- Supporting colleagues and supervising students on side-topics, leading to new internal/external projects, and publications. Show less

  • Head of Signal Processing Research Department

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Senior Research Engineer

    Jul 2022 - Oct 2024

  • Researcher - Wireless

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2022