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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which I joined in 2006. I am also a member of the Center for Wireless Information Technology at HKUST. I received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. I have held several visiting research appointments, namely, at King's College London (KCL), London, UK; Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Barcelona; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden; University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; and Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

My current research interests include applications of convex optimization theory, game theory, and variational inequality theory to signal processing and communications.

I have served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, a Guest Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2010 Special Issue on “Convex Optimization for Signal Processing,” a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2008 Special Issue on “Game Theory in Communication Systems,” the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2007 Special Issue on “Optimization of MIMO Transceivers for Realistic Communication Networks.” I serve on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM). I was the General Co-Chair of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP).

I received a 2004/06 Fulbright Research Fellowship and the 2004 Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

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Associate Professor

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon

Hong Kong

E-mail: palomar@ust.hk

URL: http://www.ece.ust.hk/~palomar

Phone: +852 2358 7060;  Fax: +852 2358 1485

Office: 2524 (lifts 25-26)

Some recent news:

  1. •I have been promoted to Associate Professor.

  2. •March 2011: I am an Invited Instructor at the 2011 Winter School of Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain.

  3. •Dec. 2010: I am an Invited Speaker at the 2010 Workshop on Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA campus, LA, USA.

  4. •Aug 2010: I will give the tutorial “Convex Optimization, Game Theory, and Variational Inequality Theory in Multiuser Communication Systems” in EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.


  1. •2010: I am the Chair of the IEEE Hong Kong Information Theory Society.

  2. •May 2010: I was a guest editor of a special issue in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Convex Optimization for Signal Processing.”

  3. •March 2010: I was an Invited Speaker at the 2010 Workshop on Distributed Decision-Making and Control, LCCC, Lunds University, Sweden.

  4. •Dec. 2009: Publication of the edited the book “Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communications” by Cambridge University Press together with Yonina Eldar.

  5. •Dec. 2009: I was the general Co-Chair of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) in Aruba.

  6. •June 2009: I was a member of the organizing committee of SPAWC 2009 in Perugia, Italy.

  7. •Feb. 2009: I was a Key Note Speaker at the Australian Communication Theory Workshop (AusCTW2009), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

  8. •Feb. 2009: I taught an intensive one-day seminar on “Convex Optimization with Applications to Communications” at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

  9. •Highly cited paper (ISI Web of Knowledge) status for my 2003 IEEE Trans. SP paper (coauthored by Lagunas and Cioffi) on majorization theory and convex optimization applied to MIMO transceiver design.

  10. •Dec. 2008: I taught an intensive 18-hour course on “Convex Optimization for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing” at the National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Co-taught with Ken Ma.)

  11. •July 2008: I was a Plenary Speaker at the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Signal Proc. Advances in Wireless Comm. (SPAWC), Recife, Brazil.

  12. •April 2008: I was an Invited Speaker at the “Panel for Convex Optimization and Applications,” ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, USA.

  13. •Dec. 2007: I was an Invited Speaker at the 2007 Workshop on Optimization and Signal Processing (WOSP), Hong Kong.