
System Engineer at IDS S.p.A.
Italy

System Engineer at IDS S.p.A.
Italy
Fabio Principe was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Napoli), Italy, in January 28, 1979. He received the Master Degree (cum Laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), in May 2003.
In 2004, he started his Ph.D. course at Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Pisa, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Luise. During this period, he focused his interests on signal processing and synchronization algorithms, CDMA techniques, GNSS systems, and low-complexity algorithms for software-radio applications. In particular he developed the signal processing and synchronization library of SOFT-REC, a GPS/SBAS software receiver (fully implemented in C/C++ language), in collaboration with INTECS s.p.a., under ESA contract. He also worked as consultant in the GSR Galileo project, ACE+ project, and GARDA project with LABEN S.p.A. All these activities were led by the supervision of Prof. M. Luise. Furthermore, he spent about 7 months (from the end of September 2005 to the end of April 2006) at the Communication Sciences Institute - University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA (USA), as visiting scholar, working in collaboration with Prof. Keith M. Chugg on Iterative Detection problems, using Iterative Message Passing Algorithms. In December 31 2006, he ended the Ph.D. course and, in May 25 2007, he got the Ph.D. grade in Information Engineering - Curriculum Communication Systems.
In February 26 2007, he started to work as system engineer in the E.M. Framework Design Laboratory of IDS S.p.A.
His research interests are in the general area of communication systems, detection algorithms, signal synchronizations, GNSS systems and its augmentation systems (SBAS, DGPS, LAAS), CDMA techniques, modern coding theory (on LDPC, turbo-codes, etc.), and Software-Defined Radio technology. Recently, he has also focused his studies on GNSS procedures for airnavigation applications, such as, precision approaches (APV-I/II and CAT-I/II/III).
(Telecommunications industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
January 2004 — December 2006 (3 years )
DSP Lab. - Curriculum: Communication Systems
Prof.: Marco Luise
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; USC; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — April 2006 (8 months)
Fabio Principe spent about 7 months at the Communication Sciences Institute - University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA (USA), as visiting scholar, working in collaboration with Prof. Keith M. Chugg on Iterative Detection problems using Iterative Message Passing Algorithms.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
Design and implementation of a GPS/SBAS software-receiver (referred to as SOFT-REC project), made in cooperation with INTECS S.p.A. under ESA contract. More specifically, he designed the frequency plan and developed all the signal processing and synchronization stages in C/C++ language to be run in real-time.
(Aviation & Aerospace industry)
January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
Architectural design of a receiver for Galileo System signals (referred to as GARDA, GAlileo Receiver Development Activities) made in collaboration with LABEN S.p.A. (now it is a part of THALES Alenia Spazio).
(Research industry)
June 2003 — October 2003 (5 months)
During this period, he worked as consultant for LABEN s.p.a. He studied and analyzed Galileo signals and performed Galileo/GPS frequency plan during GSR Galileo and ACE+ projects.
PhD , Communication Systems , 2004 — 2006
Master Degree (cum Laude) , Telecommunications Engineering , 1998 — 2003
Award: Master Degree Award of University of Pisa, because he achieved the Master Degree cum Laude in just 5 Academic Years.
Scientific and humanistic studies 1993 — 1997
- Best Paper Award of Plenary Session “Applications and Tools - part 2" in Workshop on EGNOS Performance and Applications 2005:
G. Bacci, F. Principe, M. Luise, C. Terzi, and M. Casucci, “SOFT-REC: a GPS Real Time Software Receiver with EGNOS Augmentation,” in Proc. Workshop on EGNOS Performance and Applications 2005, Gdynia (Poland), October 27-28, 2005.
- Master Degree Award of University of Pisa (2003), because he achieved the Master Degree in just 5 Academic Years with the highest grade.