Inaki (Ignacio) Berenguer, PhD

 

Address:

Apt. 14C, 60 Wadsworth St., Cambridge, MA, 02142
<ib@ee.columbia.edu> <inaki_b@mit.edu>

My Blog

Homepage: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~ib
 Date of birth: 29th July 1976
Marital Status: Single

  

Current Position

 

co-founder of Tabarca Networks with Dr. Alberto Lopez and Prof. Xiaodong Wang

Education

 

 

M.B.A.

2007-2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Sloan School of Management
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Sponsored by the Rafael del Pino Foundation

Post-doctoral research fellow

Dec. 2004-
Nov. 2005

Cambridge-MIT Institute

Communications Innovations Institute
P.I.: Dr. David Clark and Prof. Jon Crowcroft

Ph.D.

(submitted Dec. 2004,
graduated Mar. 2005)

Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK

Advisors: Prof Xiaodong Wang (Columbia) and Dr. I.J. Wassell (Cambridge).
Cambridge-MIT Institute fellowship: three-year funding starting Jan. 2004.
Topic: MIMO Communication Systems (Download thesis (pdf))

Fulbright Fellow
(M.A.)

Sep. 2002 - Aug. 2004

Columbia University, New York

Two-year graduate Fulbright scholar.
Supervisor: Prof Xiaodong Wang
GPA: 4.0/4.0: Columbia PhD qualifying exam passed in Jan. 2003.

Master of Philosophy

Sep. 2001- Sep. 2002

Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK

Broadband Wireless Systems and Applications Group.

Group leaders: Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS, FREng, and Prof. Andy Hopper, CBE FRS FREng
Thesis: Filtered Multitone (FMT) Modulation for Broadband Fixed Wireless Systems.

Telecom Engineer
(B.S. and M.Sc.)

1994-1999
(graduated 2000)

Telecommunication Engineering
Technical University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain.

Covered all aspects of telecom, including electronics and computer science. (5 year programme + thesis). 

M.Sc.Thesis:  Qualification: 10 , Matrícula de Honor (A with Honors).
Additional Education  

Master

Sep. 2000-2001

Master in Industrial Management

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Leuven, Belgium.

Information and Communication Technology option.

(completed only 4 months).

COU - 1994

Instituto Ramon Llull, Valencia, Spain

A-levels equivalent. Matricula de Honor (ranked first).

Awards

2007 - Rafael del Pino Foundation scholarship, academic years 07-08 and 08-09 (full MBA tution + $25,000/year)

 

2001 - Fulbright Scholarship, academic years 02-03 and 03-04. Educational Exchange Commission USA-Spain ($44,000/year).

 

2004 - Cambridge-MIT Institute: three-year scholarship as a research fellow with the Communications Innovations Institute (http://www.thecii.org).

 

2002 - 2004 Santander Central Hispano (SCH bank) scholar - on top of Fulbright scholarship

 

2000 - Awarded by the British Council /“La Caixa” bank with one of the 15 fully funded scholarship for postgraduate studies in the UK (starting Sept 2001) (9600£ + tuition and college fees per year).

 

1999 - Awarded by the Santander Group and European Union with the Leonardo Da Vinci fellowship for Industrial Activity in Europe (6 months).

Experience

 

 

Nov. 2005 - Aug. 2007

McKinsey & Company: Management consultant (associate) advising clients in the financial, high tech, textiles and telecom industries (Madrid, Helsinki and Sao Paulo).

2004-2005

BOPPHY Technologies: co-founder (fabless semiconductor start-up). Fund raising, business plan development (won the CU £50K business plan competition and finalists of the PWC BPlan competition in the UK), and product development (New York & Cambridge)

Dec 2004 - Nov. 2005

Cambridge-MIT Institute post-doctoral research fellow (under the umbrella of the Communications Innovations Institute)

6 Sep 2004 – end Dec.2004

and summer 2005

(7 months)

NEC Labs America: Research associate (Broadband and Mobile Networking). Work on projects related to advanced physical layer technologies and cross-layer design for next generation cellular and ad-hoc wireless networks. (Princeton, NJ).

May2004 – Aug.2004
(3 months)

Intel Corp., US - Algorithms Engineer (summer internship). Working on image rescaling algorithms for video processors. Multirate signal processing, filter banks, video format conversion, anamorphic rescaling, etc. (4 patents filed within Intel) (multisite group: Arizona, California and NY).

Jan.2001 – Aug.2001
(7 months)

ST Microelectronics – System Engineer (Wireless Division). Contribution to the W-CDMA layer 1 hardware/software development and integration. Architecture definition and development of hw blocks for the W-CDMA transmitter inner modem (San Diego, CA)

July 1999 – January 2001
(19 months)

Hewlett Packard Belgium – Mission Critical Engineer at the High Availability Observatory, a round the clock support center for mission critical computing environments. This center provides High Availability Solutions to customers around Europe, Africa and Middle East (Brussels, Belgium) (including several weeks of training in Lyon and Madrid). (first 6 months as an internship)

Non Electrical Engineering related (partime)

 

Feb. 99 – April 99 and Dec. 98

Astel Productiones, S.L. – Production Assistant for national TV programs (Valencia, Spain) 35hr/week contract

July 98 - October 98

Cedar Point .- 3 ½ months, summer jobs in the US (work and travel program). Including Cedar Point amusement park (2 months, Sandusky, Ohio) and 15 days in Cape Canaveral. 

Oct 97 – June 98

Producciones 52, S.L. – Production Assistant for national TV shows (Telemadrid, C9, Canal Sur) . Programs: “Tombola”, “Parle Voste, Calle Voste”, “En Exclusiva” 25 hr/week contract.(Valencia, Spain).

June 96 – April 97

Radio Televisión Valenciana S.A – Production Assistant for national TV shows. Programs: “De Festa en Festa”, “Canta Canta” 35 hr/week contract (Valencia, Spain)
   

Other

10 Journal publications, 16 conference papers, 3 theses and 3 patents (see list)

One month volunteer at Envirocare, Tanzania

Usual reviewer of various journal and conference publications and TPC of ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey