Monica Barbara Nicoli

Core Faculty | Associate Professor

Short Profile outline

Monica Nicoli is Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at Politecnico di Milano. She received the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering (cum laude) and the Ph.D. in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She was Visiting Researcher with Uppsala University, in 2001. She co-authored more than 100 scientific publications. She is recipient of the 2018 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop and the 2014 IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal Best Paper Awards, the 1999 Marisa Bellisario Award and the 1999 SPE-EAGE Best Thesis Award.

Education

PHD: Electronic and Communication Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Telecommunication Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Academic course held at SOM

Tecnologie Digitali

Tecnologie Digitali

Tecnologie digitali

Localization, Navigation and Smart Mobility

Tecnologie per la Comunicazione nella Mobilità

Localization, Navigation and Smart Mobility

Tecnologie per la Comunicazione nella Mobilità

Localization, Navigation and Smart Mobility

Tecnologie per la Comunicazione nella Mobilità

Localization, Navigation and Smart Mobility

Research

Her research interests are in the area of signal and information processing, with focus on wireless communications, Internet of Things and industrial applications, smart mobility, localization and navigation. Current research activities focus on cooperative systems for the Internet of Things and the Internet of Vehicles, real-time location systems for logistics and smart factory, vehicular communications for connected automated driving, cooperative intelligent transportation systems, distributed consensus algorithms, probabilistic-based machine learning for network data analytics, device-free radio sensing systems for ambient intelligence.

Relevant Publications

Savazzi S.| Nicoli M.| Bennis M.| Kianoush S.| Barbieri L. (2021), "Opportunities of Federated Learning in Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Industrial Systems", IEEE Communications Magazine, 56, 16-21

Barbieri L.| Brambilla M.| Trabattoni A.| Mervic S.| Nicoli M. (2021), "UWB Localization in a Smart Factory: Augmentation Methods and Experimental Assessment", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70

Tagliaferri D.| Brambilla M.| Nicoli M.| Spagnolini U. (2021), "Sensor-Aided Beamwidth and Power Control for Next Generation Vehicular Communications", IEEE Access, 9, 56301-56317

Tagliaferri D.| Rizzi M.| Nicoli M.| Tebaldini S.| Russo I.| Monti-Guarnieri A.V.| Prati C.M.| Spagnolini U. (2021), "Navigation-aided automotive SAR for high-resolution imaging of driving environments", IEEE Access, 9, 35599-35615

Rampa V.| Nicoli M.| Manno C.| Savazzi S. (2021), "Em model-based device-free localization of multiple bodies", Sensors, 21, 1-22

Savazzi S.| Nicoli M.| Rampa V. (2020), "Federated Learning with Cooperating Devices: A Consensus Approach for Massive IoT Networks", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7, 4641-4654

Brambilla M.| Combi L.| Matera A.| Tagliaferri D.| Nicoli M.| Spagnolini U. (2020), "Sensor-aided V2X beam tracking for connected automated driving: Distributed architecture and processing algorithms", Sensors (Switzerland), 20, 1-27

Brighente A.| Cerutti M.| Nicoli M.| Tomasin S.| Spagnolini U. (2020), "Estimation of Wideband Dynamic mmWave and THz Channels for 5G Systems and beyond", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 38, 2026-2040

Brambilla M.| Pardo D.| Nicoli M. (2020), "Location-assisted Subspace-based Beam Alignment in LOS/NLOS mm-wave V2X Communications", IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020

Brambilla M.| Nicoli M.| Soatti G.| Deflorio F. (2020), "Augmenting Vehicle Localization by Cooperative Sensing of the Driving Environment: Insight on Data Association in Urban Traffic Scenarios", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21, 1646-1663

G. Soatti S. Savazzi M. Nicoli M.A. Alvarez S. Kianoush V. Rampa U. Spagnolini, "Distributed signal processing for dense 5G IoT platforms: Networking, synchronization, interference detection and radio sensing", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 89, 9-21

Brambilla M.| Nicoli M.| Savaresi S.| Spagnolini U., "Inertial sensor aided mmwave beam tracking to support cooperative autonomous driving", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2019 - Proceedings

Kianoush S.| Savazzi S.| Rampa V.| Nicoli M., "People counting by dense WiFi MIMO networks: Channel features and machine learning Algorithms", Sensors (Switzerland), 19

Abadi M.J.| Luceri L.| Hassan M.| Chou C.T.| Nicoli M., "A cooperative machine learning approach for pedestrian navigation in indoor IoT", Sensors (Switzerland), 19

Brambilla M.| Matera A.| Tagliaferri D.| Nicoli M.| Spagnolini U., "RF-assisted free-space optics for 5G vehicle-to-vehicle communications", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2019 - Proceedings

G. Soatti M. Nicoli N. Garcia B. Denis R. Raulefs H. Wymeersch, "Implicit Cooperative Positioning in Vehicular Networks", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19, 3964-3980

Soatti G.| Nicoli M.| Garcia N.| Denis B.| Raulefs R.| Wymeersch H., "Enhanced vehicle positioning in cooperative ITS by joint sensing of passive features", IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC, 2018, 1-6

Brambilla M.| Soatti G.| Nicoli M., "Precise Vehicle Positioning by Cooperative Feature Association and Tracking in Vehicular Networks", 2018 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, SSP 2018, 856-860

Soatti G.| Murtada A.| Nicoli M.| Gambini J.| Spagnolini U., "Low-rank channel and interference estimation in mm-wave massive antenna arrays", European Signal Processing Conference, 2018, 922-926

Mariotti S.| Nicolini M.| Piscitello L., "The role of the heterogeneity of services in the transmission of spillovers to domestic manufacturing companies", Transformations in Business and Economics, 17, 194-209

G. Soatti M. Nicoli S. Savazzi U. Spagnolini, "Consensus-based algorithms for distributed network-state estimation and localization", IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 3, 430-444

L. Ascorti S. Savazzi G. Soatti M. Nicoli E. Sisinni S. Galimberti, "wireless cloud network platform for industrial process automation: Critical data publishing and distributed sensing", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 66, 592-603

S. Savazzi S. Sigg M. Nicoli V. Rampa S. Kianoush U. Spagnolini, "Device-free radio vision for assisted living: Leveraging wireless channel quality information for human sensing", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 33, 45-58

V. Rampa S. Savazzi M. Nicoli M. D'Amico, "Physical modeling and performance bounds for device-free localization systems", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 22, 1864-1868

A. Pascale F. Deflorio M. Nicoli B. Dalla Chiara M. Pedroli, "Motorway speed pattern identification from floating vehicle data for freight applications", Elsevier Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 51, 104-119

J. M. Winter I. Muller G. Soatti S. Savazzi M. Nicoli L. B. Becker J. C. Netto C. E. Pereira, "Wireless coexistence and spectrum sensing in industrial internet of things: An experimental study", Hindawi International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015, 1-12

A. Pascale M. Nicoli U. Spagnolini, "Cooperative Bayesian estimation of vehicular traffic in largescale networks", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 15, 2074-2088

M. Spadacini S. Savazzi M. Nicoli, "Wireless home automation networks for indoor surveillance: technologies and experiments", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2014, 1-17

S. Savazzi M. Nicoli F. Carminati M. Riva, "A Bayesian approach to device-free localization: Modeling and experimental assessment", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 8, 16-29

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • 2018 Best Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, for the paper “Precise vehicle positioning by cooperative feature association and tracking in vehicular networks”
  • 2014 Best Paper Award of the IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal, for the paper “Wireless sensor networks for traffic management and road safety”
  • 1999 Marisa Bellisario Award
  • 1998 Best Thesis Award in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences

Accreditations, Rankings & Memberships

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