Nicola Piovesan is a Senior Researcher at Huawei Technologies, in Paris, France. His research activity focuses on large-scale network modeling, data-driven network optimization, green networking, and the integration of artificial intelligence in the telecom domain.
He earned his PhD degree in Network Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2020, and he received the BSc degree in Information Engineering and the MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
From 2016 to 2019, he was an Assistant Researcher at the Mobile Networks Department of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). In 2016, he has been awarded with a European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship to work as early-stage researcher in the EU H2020 MSCA SCAVENGE (Sustainable Cellular Networks Harvesting Ambient Energy) project.
In 2019, he was at Nokia Bell Labs as a visiting researcher in the Small Cells Research Department.
Nicola has authored over 30 research articles and holds co-inventorship in over 10 patent applications. His achievements have been recognized with the Huawei GTS President Award in 2021 and the Huawei Quality Star Award in 2024, acknowledging his successful research application into product development.
Telco-RAG: Navigating the Challenges of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models for Telecommunications
Andrei-Laurentiu Bornea, Fadhel Ayed, Antonio De Domenico, Nicola Piovesan, Ali Maatouk
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 8-12 December 2024, Cape Town (South Africa)
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Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Computer Communications, among others.
Technical Program Commitee Member of IEEE International Conference on Communications conference (ICC 2023, ICC 2024), IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2022), European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2019, EuCNC 2020) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2019).
Co-chair of the Workshop on The Impact of Large Language Models on 6G Networks, in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, USA, June 2024, and of the Workshop on The Impact of Multi-Modal Large Language Models on 6G and Beyond, in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2024, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2024.