Fernando Paganini

Experience

Aug 2005 - present: Professor, School of Engineering, ORT University, Uruguay.
2001-2006 : Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA .
1997-2001 : Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA.
1996- 1997: Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems , M.I.T.
1991-1995: Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Caltech.
1989-1991: Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay:
1986-1991: Lecturer in Mathematics, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay:

Signal analysis, Fall semester.
Modulation and detection, Spring semester.
Network analysis, Fall semseter.

Dynamic games with applications to network control, sponsored by PDT-Uruguay.
Dynamic resource allocation and control for flexible and reliable wireless networks, sponsored by AFOSR-US.
Pricing in multi-service networks, sponsored by PDT-Uruguay.

Control of networks: Internet congestion control, multipath routing, admission control, cross-layer optimization of wireless networks.
Economics, pricing and game theory applied to networks.
Robust control theory, distributed control.

A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, “Achieving network stability and user fairness through admission control of TCP connections”, Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2008.
M. López, F. Paganini, “A mechanism for the moderation of non-cooperative nodes in wireless local area networks" Jornadas de Sistemas de Telecomunicaiones, Quito, Ecuador, May 2008. Winner of the conference best paper award.
E. Mallada, F. Paganini, "Optimal congestion control with multipath routing using TCP-FAST and a variant of RIP", NET-COOP 2007, Avignon, France, June 2007. Also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4465, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 2007.
F. Paganini, "Control and economics in networking, via optimization: perspectives from an emerging discipline", European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2007.
F. Paganini, "Congestion control with adaptive multipath routing based on optimization", Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar 2006.