Andres Navarro

Andres Navarro is an Electronics Engineer (1993), with a Master in Technology Management (1999), both from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín. Obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Universitat Politécnica de Valencia in 2003. He is IEEE member since 1995 and Senior Member since 2014. Advisor of the Spectrum Management Committee for Colombian Spectrum Agency and ITU expert. Has been IEEE Comsoc Colombia Chapter Chair, Comsoc Latam Board member and IEEE Colombia section Chair.

As ITU expert advised different governments in Digital TV and Spectrum Management. Is a participant on recently approved COST CA 20120 INTERACT and former actions COST CA15104 IRACON, COST IC1004, and COST 2100. He is a member of IEICE and EurAAP. Participated in the design of the Icesi Master program in Telecommunications and Informatics, as well as in the CDIO curriculum design process and ABET process in the engineering school. Currently is the coordinator of the Ph.D. program on engineering. Director of the i2t research group at Universidad Icesi since 1999. His research interests are Spectrum Management, mobile radio planning, radio propagation, and m-health.

In academia, he has been a lecturer and currently a full professor in Universidad Icesi, combining teaching and research activities. He has served as a TPC member of different IEEE conferences like PIMRC, VTC, Latincom, and FIE. TPC member and Board member of IEEE Colcom since the first version in 2009 as well as chairman of IEEE Colcom on three occasions and TPC chair of IEEE Healthcom 2019. He is also a member of the Head Committee of the International Center “Global Innovation Exchange on Virtual Reality and Visualization” to America and Asia.