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Dr. Marco CANIL

Dr. Marco CANIL

Post-Doc Researcher

  • Affiliation: IMDEA Networks Institute
    • MSc: ICT for Internet and Multimedia Engineering - University of Padova. Padova, Italy
    • BSc: Information Engineering - University of Padova. Padova, Italy
    • PhD: Information Engineering - University of Padova. Padova, Italy
    • Ph.D. Thesis: Collaborative Human Sensing with mmWave Systems
  • Former position: Ph.D. Student at the University of Padova, Italy, Department of Information Engineering.
  • Joining date: December 2023

Research areas

Research Groups

Biography

Marco Canil is a Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 2019 and 2020, respectively, from the University of Padova, Italy. At the same university, he received his Ph.D. in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Michele Rossi.
He was a visiting research scholar at Northeastern University of Boston, with Prof. Tommaso Melodia, and New York University, with Prof. Sundeep Rangan, in 2025 and 2023, respectively. In 2020 he was intern at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), working with Dr. Paolo Dini. He published several papers in prestigious conferences and journals, including IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Sensors Journal, ACM SenSys, IEEE RadarConf, and others. He was awarded the “Francesco Carassa” Award by the Associazione Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (GTTI) and by the Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), in 2022 and was one of the  recipients of the Fondazione “Ing. Aldo Gini” Grant from the University of Padova to sponsor research visit periods. He is a member of IEEE Communication Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society, and actively serves as a reviewer of several IEEE and ACM conferences and journals. He was part of the TPC of ICDCN in 2025 and 2026, and is Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chair at EWSN 2026. His primary research interests include ISAC, mmWave sensing, 6G, and data fusion.

Grants and Awards

Projects

  • UNITE (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Non-Terrestrial Communications and Sensing) funded by European Commission HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01 – Grant Agreement 101129618 (2023-2027). Team member. Responsible for technical deliverables and reporting.
  • MultiX (Advancing 6G-RAN through multi-technology, multi-sensor fusion, multi-band and multi-static perception) funded by European Commission SNS JU and European Union (Horizon Europe) – Grant Agreement 101192521 (2025-2027). Team member. Responsible for technical deliverables and reporting.

Service and Professional Activity

  • Member of IEEE
  • Member of IEEE Communication Society
  • Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society
  • TPC Member of ICDCN in 2025 and 2026
  • Serving as a reviewer for several conferences and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

Patents

  • Method for self-calibration of mmWave radar networks, Italian identification number: 102022000005390 – international patent number: PCT/IB2023/052439. M. Rossi, J. Pegoraro, Marco Canil, A. Shastri, P. Casari. (2022)

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