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L’activitat dels seus campus i centres fan de la UPC un punt de referència i, en complicitat amb el teixit productiu, són agent i motor de canvi econòmic i social, en posar en valor la recerca bàsica i aplicada i transferir tecnologia i coneixement a la societat.

Els investigadors i investigadores de la UPC treballen des dels laboratoris i centres de recerca per augmentar la producció científica, valoritzar-la socialment a través de la transferència de resultats i continuar liderant projectes internacionals d’excel·lència, ja sigui a partir d’iniciatives pròpies o en col·laboració amb altres centres de recerca i universitats d’arreu del món.

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AI-driven multi-antenna designs for next generations of wireless communication systems 

Raja Kumar, Dheeraj (Date of defense: 2025-09-25)

(English) As wireless networks evolve toward sixth-generation (6G) systems, the integration of advanced technologies like massive MIMO, millimeter-wave communication, intelligent reflecting surfaces, and massive multiple ...

Synergy between ground-based remote-sensing instruments for retrieving microphysical-optical-radiative properties of atmospheric aerosols 

Oliveira, Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos (Date of defense: 2025-09-18)

(English) The improvements in retrieving microphysical, optical, and radiative properties of aerosols can contribute to more detailed local observations and research, support local or global climate modeling and air quality ...

Magnetohydrodynamics enhanced radio blackout mitigation system for spacecraft during planetary entries 

Luís, Diana Zaida Felgueiras (Date of defense: 2025-09-23)

(English) Spacecraft entering planetary atmospheres are enveloped by a plasma layer with high levels of ionization, caused by the extreme temperatures in the shock layer. The charged particles in the plasma interact with ...

Neural network-based data processing for satellite imagery in small satellite earth observation missions 

Llaveria Godoy, David (Date of defense: 2025-09-09)

(English) The increasing availability and miniaturization of satellite sensors have enabled CubeSats to emerge as powerful platforms for Earth Observation (EO). Despite their reduced size and low cost, CubeSats can provide ...

Surface impedance characterization of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors for potential application in the future circular collider beam screen 

Tagdulang, Nikki (Date of defense: 2024-07-05)

(English) The Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposed hadron-hadron collider, with a center-of-mass collision energy of 100 TeV in an approximately 100-km long circular tunnel, aiming to push the frontiers ...

Algorithms for high performance computing applied to simulation of ensembles of nanoparticles 

López Menchón, Héctor (Date of defense: 2024-07-05)

(English) The objective of this thesis is to increase the computational efficiency of integral equation based methods for solving the electromagnetic scattering problem by incorporating random computations. Randomization ...

Development of accelerated fully focused SAR altimetry algorithms 

Hernández Burgos, Sergi (Date of defense: 2025-07-24)

(English) The capability to measure ocean surface topography from space emerged in the 1970s with satellite radar altimeters. Since then, it has become essential in Earth observation, supporting a range of applications, ...

Simple coherent technologies for next-generation edge optical networks 

Masanas Jiménez, Miquel (Date of defense: 2025-07-28)

(English) Optical fiber communications have revolutionized the telecommunications networks in all segments, leveraging a wide set of advantages ranging from THz capacity to low-loss, security and form factor. In long-haul ...

From pixels to graphs: cell-based digital pathology image analysis 

Pina Benages, Òscar (Date of defense: 2025-06-30)

(English) Histopathology is the gold standard for cancer diagnosis, where pathologists examine tissue samples to assess cellular morphology, tissue architecture, and biomarker expression. The digitization of histological ...

Contextual speech recognition 

Woodward Riquelme, Alejandro Benjamín (Date of defense: 2025-06-18)

(English) Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has achieved remarkable improvements in transcription accuracy in recent years, it still struggles to correctly transcribe certain words. In particular, ...

Instance-level recognition for image understanding 

Roig Marí, Carlos (Date of defense: 2025-06-30)

(English) Image understanding is a fundamental task in computer vision as it aims to enable machines to visually comprehend the real world. In this thesis, the task of image understanding is addressed through the combination ...

New methods for radio frequency interference mitigation in microwave radiometry 

Díez García, Raúl (Date of defense: 2025-06-20)

(English) Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) has emerged as the most critical challenge to the effective exploitation of the microwave spectrum for Earth observation. RFI consists of non-natural emissions that obscure the ...

Ground-based GEOSAR system using DVB-S/S2 signals of opportunity and FPGA based correlators 

Carreño Megias, Xavier (Date of defense: 2025-06-20)

(English) The SAR satellite missions from Geostationary Orbits (GEOSAR) offer short revisit times of less than 24 hours, which are essential for monitoring fast-evolving phenomena. A first mission has recently been launched ...

Contextualization of spatio-temporal action localization systems and media content applications 

Sarmiento Calderó, Manuel (Date of defense: 2025-06-13)

(English) Spatio-temporal action localization is a field of computer vision that determines both the spatial and temporal locations of actions taking place within a video. This particular task is one of the cornerstones ...

Qualitative algorithm for microwave colonoscopy 

Garrido Atienza, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2025-06-12)

(English) This thesis develops and validates an innovative algorithm for colorectal cancer (CRC) detection using microwaves, integrating it into endoscopic procedures. Validation includes ex-vivo, in-vivo, and clinical ...

Ionospheric scintillation in GNSS signals: a tool for earth observation 

Molina Ordóñez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2024-09-19)

(English) This PhD thesis is intended to study ionospheric scintillation and its relationship with some of its sources, in particular the observed correlation between the ionospheric perturbation and the lithosphere. ...

Contributions to RFI detection, mitigation, and excision for GNSS receivers and spaceborne microwave radiometers 

Pérez Portero, Adrián (Date of defense: 2025-05-09)

(English) Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) poses significant challenges to remote sensing systems, particularly affecting Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) and microwave radiometry. This thesis ...

Deep learning methods for speaker verification and diarization 

India Massana, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

(English) The first part of this thesis is based on the use of attention models for speaker verification. SOTA systems for this task are based on speaker embedding extractors. These architectures are comprised by combinations ...

Software defined networking for autonomous and secure optical networks 

Hernández Chulde, Carlos Efrén (Date of defense: 2025-04-30)

(English) The increasing complexity and demands of modern telecommunications networks necessitate the development of autonomous and secure systems to ensure efficient, reliable, and secure communications. The integration ...

On the majorization-minimization framework and g-convex optimization: exploiting diversity using sparse-aware and information theoretic criteria 

López Molina, Carlos Alejandro (Date of defense: 2025-04-22)

(English) Diversity is a well-established concept in wireless communications whose purpose is to quantify the potential robustness of a receiver when multiple independent copies of the informative signal are received. ...

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