Teaching
Teaching demands a high level of responsibility and preparation. It also helps if you have knowledge about what you are supposed to teach. The most important thing, though, is the student. Teachers can (and should) encourage and motivate students. We have to open the door and show the way, but the only guarantee for success is the commitment of the student to hard work. This is true for any discipline, but even more so for engineering.
Courses
I have taught many courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Most of them are related to signal processing, optimization, and communications. The list is typically updated on the department webpage. If you are interested in the courses I am teaching this year, I suggest you go there.
If you are a student of one of these courses and you are looking for information, then you should know that we use Moodle to exchange comments and material, so you’d better click here.
Methodology
I believe that analyzing and updating the methods and techniques used in the classroom is instrumental in being an effective teacher. For that reason, I participate in various research-oriented education projects, have written a couple of papers on the topic of Education and Engineering, and serve as a reviewer/TPCM in different conferences focused on that subject.
I also believe that (selected) online material can be very useful. Open courses are now well known and have a good reputation, and there is no doubt that platforms such as MIT OpenCourseWare, edX and Coursera are worth a visit (I took a course and I managed to finish it!).
Large language models (LLMs) have also changed the way we can learn. Used carefully, they are very useful tools: they can provide examples, build small demos and simulations, and generate concept maps that help us organize and understand new material. The key words are "used carefully": LLMs can make mistakes, so their answers should always be checked against textbooks, course notes, or your own derivations. They are a great complement to the effort of studying, but not a substitute for it.
Graduate Students
If you are a last-year undergraduate student interested in conducting your final project in an area where I am working, or if you are contemplating pursuing a Ph.D. degree, feel free to contact me.
Mentoring has been one of the most rewarding parts of my work, and I have been fortunate to collaborate with and support the graduation of several Ph.D. students: Andrei, Luis Miguel, Oscar, Samuel, Sergio, and Victor.
