Pablo Piantanida received both B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, and M.Sc degrees from the  University of Buenos Aires  (Argentina) in 2003, and the Ph.D. from  Université Paris-Sud  (Orsay, France) in 2007. Since October 2007 he has joined the  Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes  (L2S), at  CentraleSupélec  together with  CNRS  (UMR 8506) and  Université Paris-Sud , as an Associate Professor of Network Information Theory. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and coordinator of the  Information Theory and its Applications group   (ITA) at L2S.