Mauro Biagi received the Laurea degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication theory from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, where since 2015, he served as an Associate Professor. Since 2025 he is Full Professor in the same Dept. In 2010, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is responsible for the international cooperation with colleagues in different countries and his research activities are in the field of visible light communications in the RGB-Comm Lab where he advises Ph.D. students and postdocs leading projects in the area of optical wireless. He is also responsible for the research activities in the field of underwater communications in the AMOUR-AQUALab for activities involving both acoustic and optical communications. He is author of more than 180 published works in the field of communication and signal processing. His research interests include MIMO systems, Internet of Things, underwater communications, smart grids, and optical wireless systems in very wide sense.
Prof. Biagi covered the position of Secretary (2021-2022), Vice-Chair (2023-2024) and Chair (2025) of IEEE Communications Society Transmission Access on Optical SystemsTechnical Committee.
He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS and guest editor for IEEE Journal of SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS for a special issue entitled Localisation, Communication and Networking with VLC, 2018. He served as Associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications.
For JLT he is handling submissions on the following topics:
• Visible light communication systems
• Infrared wireless Communications
• Ultraviolet wireless Communications
• Outdoor optical wireless
• Underwater Optical Communication
• Camera Communication
• Optical wireless access networks