Tommaso Zugno
Senior Research Engineer at Huawei
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTommaso Zugno is a Senior Research Engineer in Munich with eight years of experience specializing in terahertz communications, mmWave cellular systems and AI for radio networks. He holds a PhD in telecommunication engineering and leads an EU TIMES project work package while representing industry as a delegate in ETSI ISG THz at Huawei. His career blends rigorous academic research—where he developed an open-source ns-3 mmWave simulator and integrated 3GPP TR 38.901 channel models—with industrial R&D translating those models into practical radio architectures. He is a proven system architect and back-end developer who has contributed foundational PHY/MAC and channel modeling code used by the ns-3 community, reflecting both deep protocol knowledge and production-grade implementation skills. Notably, his open-source contributions originated from a Google Summer of Code project, demonstrating a sustained track record of collaborative, reproducible research.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni, 110/110 cum laude, Master's degree, Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di PadovaDiploma Istituto Tecnico, Elettronica e telecomunicazioni, 98/100, Diploma Istituto Tecnico, Elettronica e telecomunicazioni, 98/100 at ITIS Max PlanckErasmus Exchange Program, Telecommunications Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Program, Telecommunications Engineering at UPC - ETSETB Telecos BCN
Github Skills (7)
simulations10
simulation10
c-language10
test-driven-design10
cprogramming-language10
simulator10
lte10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nyuwireless-unipd/ns3-mmwave
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
ns-3 module for simulating mmWave-based cellular systems. See https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8344116/ (open access) as a reference.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:2 releases, 271 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tommaso contributed to the LTE module, focusing on the development of a mmWave radio implementation for the ns-3 simulator. The commits involve significant modifications to existing PHY and MAC layer components to incorporate support for carrier aggregation, including modifications to the header and control structures. The changes demonstrate the user's involvement in system architecture, including changes to existing class structures for a new module. The focus of the work has been to integrate mmWave support with modifications to the PHY/MAC layer of LTE, as it is shown in the core changes of the project.
module-3open-accesscommunicationsns-3simulation
nsnam/ns-3-dev-git
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tommaso primarily focused on integrating and developing the 3GPP TR 38.901 pathloss and channel condition model and the fast fading model, which is a core component for radio signal propagation. They implemented several channel condition models (e.g., ThreeGppRMa, ThreeGppUma) and the fast fading model. The contributions involved modifying existing code and adding tests to validate the implementation.
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