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Phone number: +39 080 5963081
Email: alessio.fascista@poliba.it
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Alessio Fascista
Associate Professor
Polytechnic University of Bari
Alessio Fascista received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering of Complex Systems (summa cum laude) from the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) in 2019. He is currently a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Politecnico di Bari. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at Università del Salento. He has held a visiting position at the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) in 2018, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) in 2022. His main research interests are in the field of telecommunications with focus on statistical signal processing for detection, estimation, and localization in terrestrial wireless systems. Relevant application fields are wireless networks (including 5G and beyond), radars, and emerging network contexts (including intelligent cyber-physical systems, smart devices, and environmental monitoring systems). He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS, Italy Chapter) best Ph.D. dissertation award for the thesis: “Cooperative Positioning based on Array Processing and Information Fusion”, and of the “Francesco Carassa 2022 Award” for the Signal Processing area from the Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT). He is Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS). He is a member of the Technical Area Committee in Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
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Publications
2026
Energy-Efficient and Scalable 6G Networks through XAI-Driven Edge Intelligence Proceedings Article Forthcoming
In: Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2026), Prague, Czech Republic, Forthcoming.
Connectivity on-the-Fly: A Proof of Concept of Resilient Aerial Networking Proceedings Article Forthcoming
In: 2026 IEEE 13th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (IEEE MetroAeroSpace 2026), Madrid, Spain, Forthcoming.
Internet of Medical Things through Explainable AI at the Edge: A Practical Case Study Journal Article
In: IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 2026.
Downlink ISAC with a Full-Stack 5G-Compliant Experimental Testbed: Communication vs. Control Signals for Multi-Target Detection Proceedings Article Forthcoming
In: 2026 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Joint Communications & Sensing (JC&S) (JC&S'26), Ponte di Legno, Italy, Forthcoming.
Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G Connectivity Book Chapter
In: Melazzi, Nicola Blefari; Capone, Antonio (Ed.): RESTART Telecommunications of the Future: A book of contributions from the RESTART program, Chapter 5, pp. 152-192, 2026, ISBN: 9788832170061.
Visible Light Indoor Positioning with a Single LED and Distributed Single-Element OIRS: An Iterative Approach with Adaptive Beam Steering Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, pp. 1-1, 2026.
2025
Machine Learning-Based Histogram Boosting Approach for Attack Detection in IoT Networks Proceedings Article
In: 2025 16th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC) (WMNC 2025), pp. 3, Leuven, Belgium, 2025.
5G-Compliant Integrated Sensing and Communication at Sub-6 GHz: Experiments with SDRs and OpenAirInterface Proceedings Article Forthcoming
In: European Wireless 2025; 30th European Wireless Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, Forthcoming.
Towards the Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: a Testbed for in-Lab Evaluation Proceedings Article
In: 2025 17th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT) (ICUMT 2025), pp. 6, Firenze, Italy, 2025.
An Indoor Experimental Testbed for 5G-based UAV Control and Communication Proceedings Article
In: 2025 21th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) - 18th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing 2025 (STWiMob’2025), Marrakech, Morocco, 2025.
6GxAID: Integrating 6G Networks and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Drone-Based Assistance in Emergency Situations Proceedings Article
In: Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2025), Barcelona, Spain, 2025.
2024
Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks for Integrated Sensing and Communication Proceedings Article
In: Proc. of 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE) - Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC): A New Perspective for Autonomous, Connected and Smart Systems, 2024.