My name is Antonio Perez Yuste and I am a Professor in Telecommunications Engineering at Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM), Spain. I received my B.Eng. in Radiocommunications (May 1991), M.Eng. in Telecommunications (December 1996) and Ph.D. (cum laude) in Telecommunications (September 2004), all from the Technical University of Madrid.

I have held some different academic positions: vice Director of the Technical University of Madrid’s School of Telecommunications from 1997 to 2001, Director of that School from 2001 to 2004, Director of the Technical University of Madrid President’s Cabinet from 2004 to 2012, UPM Sino-Spanish Campus Director at Shanghai (China) from September 2012 to February 2014, and Director of the UPM Sino-Spanish Cooperation Office in Madrid from March 2014 to July 2014. In 2014, I was appointed under the Chinese Government’s prestigious ‘National High-End Foreign Expert Program’ to a 3-year guest Professorship at Shanghai’s Tongji University. Currently, I am a Guest Professor to Tongji College of Electronics and Information Engineering, in Shanghai (China).

At present, I teach an undergraduate first-year course on Introduction to Telecommunications, an undergraduate second-year course on Theory of Communications, a graduate course on Wireless Communications, and a graduate course on Information and Communication Technologies and the Information Society. My research interest is focused in wireless propagation and radio channel modelling. In addition, I also devote my time to study the History of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with special emphasis in the History of Telecommunications and in the development of the Information Society.

From 2002 to the present time, I have carried out some educative initiatives based on active learning methodologies as a way to improve students’ progress and results. The final goal of all those actions is to encourage students to think about how they are learning and, thus, driving them to take responsibility for their own education.

I am an IEEE Member (from January 1993), IEEE Senior Member (from May 2011), Member of the IEEE History Committee (from January 2011), Vice Chair of IEEE History Committee (from January 2017), and Member of the IEEE Spain Section Executive Committee (from January 2012). I was IEEE Milestones Coordinator for IEEE Regions 8 to 10 during two years (2012-2013), and IEEE Awards Sub-committee Coordinator in the IEEE History Committee for one year (2016).

As a Graduate Student at Technical University of Madrid, I was originally the promoter of the UPM Alumni Social Site in LinkedIn, and I am currently acting as his Community Manager.