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Curriculum

Vincenzo MATTA Curriculum

Brief Biography

Vincenzo Matta (born 1977) is Full Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Information & Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM), University of Salerno, Italy.
His research activity spans the fields of signal processing, network theory and statistical learning, with current emphasis on adaptation and learning over networks; the interplay between inference, communications and security in distributed systems; multiobject/multisensor tracking and data fusion; detection of gravitational waves. He has published more than 120 articles on international journals and proceedings of international conferences.
His teaching activity covers topics in the fields of statistical signal processing and communications. Specific courses offered include: Signals and Systems Theory, Digital Communications, Wireless Communications, Data Networks, Coding and Data Compression, Statistical Data Analysis.
Professor Matta is the Director of the Laboratory Co.Ri.TeL (Research Consortium on Telecommunications) at the University of Salerno.

PhD Students

  • Marco Carpentiero (first year).
  • Michele Cirillo (second year).
  • Marco Tambasco, ERICSSON, Italy (now waiting for thesis defense).

Degrees

  • PhD in Information Engineering, University of Salerno, 2005.
  • Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering, University of Salerno, 2001.

Editorial Activity

  • Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
  • Formerly Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.
  • Formerly Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
  • Formerly Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
  • Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Inference and Learning over Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, Dec. 2016, Guest Editors V. Matta, C. Richard, V. Saligrama, A. H. Sayed.
  • IEEE SPS Steering Committee Representative on the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.
  • Reviewer for the most relevant journals in the field of signal processing, communications and information theory, including: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, EURASIP Signal Processing, ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Membership in high quality organizations and research institutes

  • Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
  • Member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee of the SPS.
  • LIGO, VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations for the detection of gravitational waves.
  • National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).
  • National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).
  • National Telecommunications and Information Technologies Group (GTTI).

University Service

  • Representative of the University of Salerno in the National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).
  • President of the Joint Committee Professors/Students, DIEM, University of Salerno.
  • Member of the Teaching Committee, DIEM, University of Salerno.
  • Member of the Department Board, DIEM, University of Salerno.
  • Department Delegate for Teaching Support, DIEM, University of Salerno.

Journals

[J65] V. Matta, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Graph Learning under Partial Observability”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 108, no. 11, pp. 2049-2066, November 2020.

[J64] V. Matta, V. Bordignon, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Interplay between Topology and Social Learning over Weak Graphs”, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 99-119, 2020.

[J63] R. Liegeois, A. Santos, V. Matta, D. Van De Ville, A. H. Sayed, “Revisiting Correlation-Based Functional Connectivity and its Relationship with Structural Connectivity”, Network Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1235-1251, 2020.

[J62] A. Santos, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Local Tomography of Large Networks Under the Low-Observability Regime”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 587-613, January 2020.

[J61] P. Addesso, V. Matta, “Managing Information Constraints Over Networks Through the Lens of Configuration Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 768-778, December 2019.

[J60] P. Addesso, M. Cirillo, M. Di Mauro, V. Matta, “ADVoIP: Adversarial Detection of Encrypted and Concealed VoIP”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 943-958, 2020.

[J59] V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Consistent Tomography Under Partial Observations Over Adaptive Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 622-646, January 2019.

[J58] G. Wang, J. Zhu, R. S. Blum, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Braca, “Signal Amplitude Estimation and Detection From Unlabeled Binary Quantized Samples”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 16, pp. 4291-4303, August 2018.

[J57] V. Matta, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, A. Farina, “Cyber-Threat Mitigation Exploiting the Birth–Death–Immigration Model”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 3137-3152, December 2018.

[J56] V. Matta, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, “DDoS Attacks With Randomized Traffic Innovation: Botnet Identification Challenges and Strategies”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 1844-1859, August 2017.

[J55] M. Franceschetti, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Chernoff Test for Strong-or-Weak Radar Models”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 289-302, January 2017.

[J54] G. Papa, P. Braca, S. Horn, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Multisensor Adaptive Bayesian Tracking Under Time-Varying Target Detection Probability”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 52, no. 5, October 2016.

[J53] V. Matta, P. Braca, S. Marano, A. H. Sayed, “Distributed Detection Over Adaptive Networks: Refined Asymptotics and the Role of Connectivity”, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 442-460, December 2016.

[J52] P. Braca, R. Lazzeretti, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Learning With Privacy in Consensus + Obfuscation”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1174-1178, September 2016.

[J51] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “The Importance of Being Earnest: Social Sensing With Unknown Agent Quality”, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 306-320, September 2016.

[J50] V. Matta, P. Braca, S. Marano, A. H. Sayed, “Diffusion-Based Adaptive Distributed Detection: Steady-State Performance in the Slow Adaptation Regime”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 4710-4732, August 2016.

[J49] V. Fiumara, A. Fusco, G. Iadarola, V. Matta, I. M. Pinto, “Free-Space Antenna Pattern Retrieval in Nonideal Reverberation Chambers”, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 673-677, June 2016.

[J48] V. Matta, V. Pierro, “Sequential nonideal measurements of quantum oscillators: Statistical characterization with and without environmental coupling”, Physical Review A, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 052105-1/052105-16, November 2015.

[J47] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Sensor Network Tomography: The Revenge of the Detected”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 16, pp. 4329-4338, August 2015.

[J46] P. Braca, P. Willett, K. LePage, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Bayesian Tracking in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks With Port-Starboard Ambiguity”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 1864-1878, April 2014.


[J45] S. Marano, V. Matta, “Achieving Perfect Secrecy by pdf-Bandlimited Jamming”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 83-87, January 2014.


[J44] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Nearest-Neighbor Distributed Learning by Ordered Transmissions”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 21, pp. 5217-5230, November 2013.

[J43] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Asymptotic Efficiency of the PHD in Multitarget/Multisensor Estimation”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 553-564, June 2013.


[J42] S. Marano, V. Matta, T. He, L. Tong, “The Embedding Capacity of Information Flows Under Renewal Traffic”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 1724-1739, March 2013.


[J41] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Single-Transmission Distributed Detection via Order Statistics”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 2042-2048, April 2012.

[J40] R. Georgescu, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Predetection Fusion in Large Sensor Networks with Unknown Target Locations”, Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 61-77, June 2012.

[J39] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Consensus-based Page’s test in sensor networks”, Signal Processing, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 919-930, April 2011.

[J38] P. Braca, M. Guerriero, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Selective Measurement Transmission in Distributed Estimation With Data Association”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 4311-4321, August 2010.

[J37] M. Guerriero, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Optimal Relay Function in the Low-Power Regime for Distributed Estimation Over a MAC”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 2907-2911, May 2010.

[J36] S. Marano, V. Matta, F. Mazzarella, “Refining Decisions After Losing Data: The Unlucky Broker Problem”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 1980-1990, April 2010.

[J35] P. Addesso, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Estimation of Target Location Via Likelihood Approximation in Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 1358-1368, March 2010.

[J34] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Asymptotic Optimality of Running Consensus in Testing Binary Hypotheses”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 814-825, February 2010.

[J33] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Distributed Detection With Censoring Sensors Under Physical Layer Secrecy”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1976-1986, May 2009.

[J32] M. Guerriero, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Stochastic Resonance in Sequential Detectors”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 2-15, January 2009.

[J31] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, “Distributed Detection in the Presence of Byzantine Attacks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 16-29, Janaury 2009.

[J30] M. Guerriero, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Some aspects of DOA estimation using a network of blind sensors”, Signal Processing, vol. 88, no. 11, pp. 2640-2650, November 2008.

[J29] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Enforcing Consensus While Monitoring the Environment in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 3375-3380, July 2008.

[J28] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Distributed Estimation in Large Wireless Sensor Networks via a Locally Optimum Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 748-756, February 2008.

[J27] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations”, The Astrophysical Journal , vol. 681, no. 2, pp. 1419-1430, 2008.

[J26] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Search of S3 LIGO Data for Gravitational Wave Signals from Spinning Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Inspirals”, Physical Review D, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. (042002-1)-(042002-19), 2008.

[J25] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs”, Physical Review D, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. (062004-1)-(062004-22), 2008.

[J24] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO Data”, Physical Review D, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. (062002-1)-(062002-13), 2008.

[J23] L. Baggio,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “A Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with AURIGA and LIGO”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. (095004-1)-(095004-16), 2008.

[J22] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in LIGO S4 Data”, Physical Review D, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. (022001-1)- (022001-38), 2008.

[J21] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Searches for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Unknown Isolated Sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the Second LIGO Science Run”, Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 8, pp. (082001-1)-( 082001-35), 2007.

[J20] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts in LIGO Data from the Fourth Science Run”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 24, no. 22, pp. 5343-5369, 2007.

[J19] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Search for Gravitational Wave Radiation Associated with the Pulsating Tail of the SGR 1806 - 20 Hyperflare of 27 December 2004 Using LIGO”, Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 6, pp. (062003-1)- (062003-12), 2007.

[J18] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Upper Limit Map of a Background of Gravitational Waves”, Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 8, pp. (082003-1)-(082003-11), 2007.

[J17] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “First Cross-Correlation Analysis of Interferometric and Resonant-Bar Gravitational-Wave Data for Stochastic Backgrounds”, Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. (022001-1)-(022001-17), 2007.

[J16] B. Abbott,…, V. Matta, et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, “Upper Limits on Gravitational Wave Emission from 78 Radio Pulsars”, Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. (042001-1)-(042001-20), 2007.

[J15] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, P. Willett, “A Likelihood-Based Multiple Access for Estimation in Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 5155-5166, November 2007.

[J14] P. Addesso, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Sequential Sampling in Sensor Networks for Detection With Censoring Nodes”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 5497-5505, November 2007.

[J13] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Asymptotic Design of Quantizers for Decentralized MMSE Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 5485-5496, November 2007.

[J12] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, L. Tong, “Cross-Layer Design of Sequential Detectors in Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 4105-4117, November 2006.

[J11] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Quantizer Precision for Distributed Estimation in a Large Sensor Network”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 4073-4078, October 2006.

[J10] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, L. Tong, “Support-Based and ML Approaches to DOA Estimation in a Dumb Sensor Network”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1563-1567, April 2006.

[J9] S. Marano, V. Matta, “Sub-optimal All-Sky Detection of Periodic Gravitational Waves”, Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 971-983, May 2006.

[J8] V. Fiumara, A. Fusco, V. Matta, I. M. Pinto, “Free-Space Antenna Field/Pattern Retrieval in Reverberation Environments”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 4, pp. 329-332, 2005.

[J7] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, L. Tong, “DOA Estimation via a Network of Dumb Sensors Under the SENMA Paradigm”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 709-712, October 2005.

[J6] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Some Approaches to Quantization for Distributed Estimation With Data Association”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 885-895, March 2005.

[J5] R. P. Croce, Th. Demma, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, V. Pierro, I. M. Pinto, “Correlator Bank Detection of Gravitational Wave Chirps. False-Alarm Probability, Template Density, and Thresholds: Behind and Beyond the Minimal-Match Issue”, Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. (122001-1)-(122001-19), 2004.

[J4] R. P. Croce, Th. Demma, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, V. Pierro, I. M. Pinto, “How Many Templates for GW Chirp Detection? The Minimal-Match Issue Revisited”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 21, no. 21, pp. 4955-4961, 2004. [J3] R. P. Croce, Th. Demma, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, V. Pierro, I. M. Pinto, “Gravitational Wave Chirp Search: No-Signal Cumulative Distribution of the Maximum Likelihood Detection Statistic”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. S803-S813, 2003.

[J2] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Sequential Detection of Almost-Harmonic Signals”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 395-406, February 2003.

[J1] S. Marano, P. Willett, V. Matta, “Sequential Testing of Sorted and Transformed Data as an Efficient Way to Implement Long GLRTs”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 325-337, February 2003.

Book Chapters

[B4] V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Estimation and Detection over Adaptive Networks”, in Cooperative and Graph Signal Processing: Principles and Applications, P. Djuric and C. Richard, editors, Elsevier, pp. 69-106, 2018 (Invited Paper).

[B3] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Decentralized Detection via Running Consensus”, in Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Statistical Signal Processing Perspective, D. Ciuonzo and P. Salvo Rossi, editors, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 155-171, March 2019 (Invited Paper).

[B2] S. Marano, V. Matta, “Elements of Sequential Detection with Applications to Sensor Networks”, in Sensor and Data Fusion, edited by Nada Milisavljevć, I-Tech Publisher, ISBN: 978-3-902613-52-3, pp. 417-436, 2009 (Invited Paper).

[B1] S. Marano, V. Matta, “Wireless Sensor Networks: a Testbed for Emerging Milestones in Communication Theory”, in New Signal Processing Research, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ISBN: 978-1-60456-479-2, pp. 55-87, 2008 (Invited Paper).

Conferences

[C59] V. Bordignon, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Adaptation in Online Social Learning”, 2020 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), originally scheduled in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, then moved to an online edition, 18-22 January 2021, pp. 2170-2174.

[C58] V. Matta, V. Bordignon, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Learning Graph Influence from Social Interactions”, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), originally scheduled in Barcelona, Spain, then moved to an online edition, 4-8 May 2020, pp. 5535-5539.

[C57] V. Bordignon, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Social Learning with Partial Information Sharing”, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), originally scheduled in Barcelona, Spain, then moved to an online edition, 4-8 May 2020, pp. 5540-5544.

[C56] V. Matta, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Graph Learning with Partial Observations: Role of Degree Concentration”, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, 7-12 July 2019, pp. 1312-1316.

[C55] V. Matta, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Exponential Collapse of Social Beliefs over Weakly-connected Heterogeneous Networks”, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-17 May 2019, pp. 5267-5271.

[C54] P. Addesso, M. Cirillo, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, V. Matta, “Adversarial Detection of Concealed VoIP Traffic”, 2019 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) Honolulu, HI, USA, 19-21 February 2019, pp. 437-441.

[C53] V. Matta, A. Santos, A. H. Sayed, “Tomography of Large Adaptive Networks under the Dense Latent Regime”, 2018 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 28-31 October 2018, pp. 2144-2148 (Invited Paper).

[C52] V. Matta, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, A. Farina, “Multiple Cyber-Threats Containment Via Kendall's Birth-Death-Immigration Model”, 2018 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, 3-7 September 2018, pp. 2554-2558.

[C51] V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Tomography of Adaptive Multi-Agent Networks Under Limited Observation”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, AB, 15-20 April 2018, pp. 6638-6642.

[C50] P. Addesso, M. Longo, V. Matta, V. Pierro, “Localization of Gravitational Sources from Time-Frequency Maps”, 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Rome, Italy, 20-22 June 2018, pp. 538-543.

[C49] A. Santos, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Consistent Tomography over Diffusion Networks under the Low-Observability Regime”, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, USA, 17-22 June 2018, pp. 1839-1843.

[C48] A. Santos, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Divide-and-Conquer Tomography for Large-Scale Networks”, 2018 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW), Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2018, pp. 170-174.

[C47] V. Matta, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, “Botnet Identification in Multi-Clustered DDoS Attacks”, 2017 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece, 28 August - 2 September 2017, pp. 2171-2175.

[C46] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, P. Braca, R. Blum, “Hypothesis Testing in the Presence of Maxwell’s Daemon: Signal Detection by Unlabeled Observations”, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 5-9 March 2017, pp. 3286-3290.

[C45] V. Matta, P. Braca, S. Marano, A. H. Sayed, “Detection over Diffusion Networks: Asymptotic Tools for Performance Prediction and Simulation”, 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary, 29 August - 2 September 2016, pp. 1503-1507 (Invited Paper).

[C44] V. Matta, M. Di Mauro, M. Longo, “Botnet Identification in Randomized DDoS Attacks”, 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary, 29 August - 2 September 2016, pp. 2260-2264.

[C43] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “One Plus Two May Not Equal Two Plus One in a Social Sensing Network with Unknown Parameters”, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 20-25 March 2016, pp. 3321-3325.

[C42] P. Addesso, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, I. M. Pinto, M. Principe, “Sparsifying Time-Frequency Distributions for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis”, 2015 International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar, and Remote Sensing (CoSeRa), Pisa, Italy, 17-19 June 2015, pp. 154-158.

[C41] V. Matta, P. Braca, S. Marano, A. H. Sayed, “Exact Asymptotics of Distributed Detection over Adaptive Networks”, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), South Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-24 April 2015, pp. 3377-3381.

[C40] G. Papa, P. Braca, S. Horn, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Adaptive Bayesian Tracking with Unknown Time-Varying Sensor Network Performance”, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), South Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-24 April 2015, pp. 2534-2538.

[C39] M. Franceschetti, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Chernoff Test for Arbitrary Returns from a Strong-or-Weak Target”, 2015 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon), Arlington, VA, USA, 10-15 May 2015, pp. 1683-1686.

[C38] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Nearest-Neighbor Estimation in Sensor Networks”, 2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lisbon, Portugal, 1-5 September 2014, pp. 870-874 (Invited Paper).

[C37] M. Franceschetti, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Active Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing under a Strong-or-Weak Echo Model”, 2014 IEEE Radar Conference, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 19-23 May 2014, pp. 0755-0760.

[C36] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “How Many Bits from How Many Sensors? A Trade-Off in Distributed Nearest-Neighbor Learning”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May 2014, pp. 7619-7623.

[C35] R. Goldhahn, P. Braca, K. D. LePage, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Environmentally Sensitive Particle Filter Tracking in Multistatic AUV Networks with Port-Starboard Ambiguity”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May 2014, pp. 1458-1462.

[C34] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, A. H. Sayed, “Large Deviations Analysis of Adaptive Distributed Detection”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May 2014, pp. 6112-6116.

[C33] P. Braca, R. Goldhahn, K. D. LePage, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Cognitive Multistatic AUV Networks”, 2014 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Salamanca, Spain, 7-10 July 2014, pp. 1-7.

[C32] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Decentralized Nearest-Neighbor Learning over Noisy Channels: the Uncoded Way”, 2013 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Istanbul, Turkey, 9-12 July 2013, pp. 426-431.


[C31] P. Braca, K. LePage, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Particle Filtering Approach to Multistatic Underwater Sensor Networks with Left-Right Ambiguity”, 2013 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Istanbul, Turkey, 9-12 July 2013, pp. 266-271.


[C30] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Nearest-Neighbor Distributed Learning Under Communication
Constraints”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 26-31 May 2013, pp. 3278-3282.

[C29] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “A Linear Complexity Particle Approach to the Exact Multi-Sensor PHD”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 26-31 May 2013, pp. 4061-4065.

[C28] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Multitarget-Multisensor ML and PHD: Some Asymptotics”, 2012 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Singapore, 9-12 July 2012, pp. 2347-2353.

[C27] S. Marano, V. Matta, T. He, L. Tong, “Embedding Information Flows into Renewal Traffic”, 2011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Paraty, Brazil, 16-20 October 2011, pp. 50-54.

[C26] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Asymptotically Consistent One-Bit Detection in Large Sensor Networks”, 2011 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Barcelona, Spain, 29 August - 2 September 2011, pp. 1035-1039.

[C25] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Quickest Distributed Detection via Running Consensus”, 2011 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Barcelona, Spain, 29 August - 2 September 2011, pp. 417-421.

[C24] L. Bruno, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Multisensor Systems with Variable Sampling Rate”, 2011 IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing and Applications (SIPA), Crete, Greece, 22-24 June 2011.

[C23] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, “Embedding Covert Information Flow”, 2010 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 7-10 November 2010, pp. 52-56 (Invited Paper).

[C22] S. Marano, V. Matta, F. Mazzarella, “The Bayesian Unlucky Broker”, 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Aalborg, Denmark, 23-27 August 2010, pp. 154-158.

[C21] M. Guerriero, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Asymptotically Optimal Power-Constrained Distributed Estimation”, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March 2010, pp. 2982-2985.

[C20] P. Braca, M. Guerriero, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Distributed Estimation with Data Association: Is the Nearest Neighbor The Most Informative?”, 2009 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Seattle, WA, USA, 6-9 July 2009, pp. 780-785 (Best Student Paper Award, 2nd place).

[C19] P. Addesso, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Target Localization in Sensor Networks: Consensus, but not so much”, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Perugia, Italy, 21-24 June 2009, pp. 554-557.

[C18] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Decentralized Asymptotic Detection by Running Consensus”, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Perugia, Italy, 21-24 June 2009, pp. 41-45.

[C17] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “On the Divergence-Cost Function in Distributed Detection with a Secrecy Constraint”, 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 26-29 October 2008, pp. 1357-1360 (Invited Paper).

[C16] P. Braca, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Running Consensus in Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2008 International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Cologne, Germany, 30 June - 3 July 2008.

[C15] M. Guerriero, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Speedier Sequential Tests via Stochastic Resonance”, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 30 March - 4 April 2008, pp. 3901-3904.

[C14] S. Marano, P. Willett, V. Matta, “Efficient GLRTs via SPRTs for Gravitational Wave Detection”, 2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 1-8 March 2008, pp. 1-12.

[C13] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, P. Willett, “Bandwidth Scaling for Efficient Inference over a Power-Limited MAC”, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, HI, USA, 15-20 April 2007, vol. 3, pp. (III-597)-(III-600).

[C12] M. Guerriero, P. Willett, S. Marano, V. Matta, “Practical DOA Estimation via a Network of DOA-Blind Sensors”, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, HI, USA, 15-20 April 2007, vol. 2, pp. (II-1073)-(II-1076).

[C11] R. Conte, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, F. Velardi, “Fusing Evidences from Intracranial Pressure Data using Dempster-Shafer Theory”, 2007 International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1-4 July 2007, pp. 159-162.

[C10] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Quantizer Design for Decentralized MMSE Estimation”, 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), San Diego, CA, USA, 13-15 December 2006, pp. 1327-1332.

[C9] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, “Distributed Inference in the Presence of Byzantine Sensors”, 2006 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 29 October 29 - 1 November 2006, pp. 281-284 (Invited Paper).

[C8] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, “Distributed Detection in the Presence of Byzantine Attack in Large Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2006 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Washington, D.C., USA, 23-25 October 2006.

[C7] S. Marano, V. Matta, L. Tong, “Secrecy in Cooperative SENMA with Unauthorized Intrusions”, 2006 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France, 2-5 July 2006.

[C6] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “Locally Optimum Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2006 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, 4-8 September 2006.

[C5] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, L. Tong, “Simple and High-Performing DOA Estimation by a Field of Blind Beepers”, Special Session on Sensor Networks organized by Dr. Rich Kozick and Dr. Brian Sadler, 2005 IEEE/SP Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Bordeaux, France, 17-20 July 2005, pp. 1210-1213 (Invited Paper).

[C4] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, L. Tong, “SPRTs in Sensor Networks with Mobile Agents”, Special Session on “Sensor Networks: Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking” organized by prof. L.Tong, 2005 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York City, NY, USA, 5-8 June 2005, pp. 920-924 (Invited Paper).

[C3] V. Matta, S. Marano, P. Willett, L. Tong, “Dumb Isotropic Sensors Can Find DOAs”, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 18-23 March 2005, vol. 4, pp. iv/761- iv/764.

[C2] S. Marano, V. Matta, P. Willett, “An Idea for Quantization with Data Association”, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 18-23 March 2005, vol 4, pp. iv/813- iv-816.

[C1] P. Addesso, G. De Marco, M. Longo, V. Matta, F. Postiglione, R. Restaino, “Detection of Shared Congestion Points based on Likelihood Ratio Test”, 2004 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI), Orlando, FL, USA, 18-21 July 2004, in: N. Callaos et al., Control, Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications, vol. XI, pp. 257-262.