Scientific Director & Director - AI-Driven Systems Research Group
Xavier Costa-Pérez is Scientific Director and the AI-driven Systems Research Group Director (AIS) at the i2CAT Research Center, as well as an ICREA Research Professor, concurrently leading Space and Terrestrial Systems (ASTRO) R&D at NEC Laboratories Europe. A globally recognized leader in his field, Dr. Costa-Pérez has been ranked among the Top 2% of World Scientists by Stanford for over 5 years and is featured on the Research.com Best World Computer Scientists list. His research spearheads the digital transformation of society through the convergence of Space and Mobile Networks together with Artificial Intelligence. His team consistently delivers impactful research, evidenced by publications in top-tier scientific venues and numerous awards for successful technology transfers. He actively secures funding through internal and external competitive R&D programs and contributed significantly to standardization bodies, including 3GPP, O-RAN, ETSI ISAC, and IETF. Notably, his innovations have been integrated into commercial mobile phones, base stations, and network management systems, and have spurred the creation of multiple start-ups. Dr. Costa-Pérez has held various leadership roles across industry and research, including Deputy General Manager, Chief Researcher, and member of Technology and Scientific Advisory Boards. He is a recognized contributor to multiple standard specifications who actively participated in bodies such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, WiFi Alliance, and 3GPP. He has also served on organizing committees for prominent conferences (e.g., AAAI, ACM MOBICOM, IEEE INFOCOM) and as an Editor for leading journals like IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), as well as Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM). Dr. Costa-Pérez holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), receiving a national award for his doctoral thesis. He is the inventor of over 100 granted patents, some standard essential (SEP).
Garcia-Aviles, G. and Garcia-Saavedra, A. and Gramaglia, M. and Costa-Perez, X. and Serrano, P. and Banchs, A., “Nuberu: Reliable RAN Virtualization in SharedPlatforms.” In:The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Com-puting and Networking. 2021, pp. 1–16.
Bartra, G.C., Lemic, F., Pascual, G., Rodas, A.P., Struye, J., Delgado, C. and Pérez, X.C., 2024. Graph Neural Networks as an Enabler of Terahertz-based Flow-guided Nanoscale Localization over Highly Erroneous Raw Data. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. IEEE early access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10528284. arXiv open access: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05551.
Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, and Xavier Costa-Perez. 2024. CloudRIC: Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Virtualization with Shared Heterogeneous Computing. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 558–572. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636534.3649381
Pau Baguer, Girma M. Yilma, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Liebsch, and Xavier Costa-Pérez. "Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation". IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2024
Chaoyun Zhang, Xavier Costa-Perez, and Paul Patras. 2020. Tiki-Taka: Attacking and Defending Deep Learning-based Intrusion Detection Systems. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 27–39. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411495.3421359
