Jose A. Ayala-Romero

Jose A. Ayala-Romero

Senior Research Scientist

NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

Biography

Senior Research Scientist with NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH. Before joining NEC, he was working as a Senior Data Scientist with the CBG AI lab at Huawei Ireland Research Center from Jan 2021 to Sep 2022, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin from Nov 2019 to Jan 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Communications from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, in 2019. During the Ph.D., he was an Intern at Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, in 2017, and NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany, in 2018.

Interests

  • Agentic Systems and Generative AI
  • Mobile Networks and Prototyping

Education and Profesional Experience

  • Senior Research Scientist

    NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

  • Senior Data Scientist

    Huawei Ireland Research Center

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Trinity College Dublin

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Communications

    Technical University of Cartagena

  • MSc in Telecommunications Engineering

    Technical University of Cartagena

  • BSc in Telecommunications Engineering

    Technical University of Cartagena

Recent Publications

SPIFF: Selective Preservation of Image Fidelity for Bandwidth-constrained Heterogeneous Networks IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
Marco Palena, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
Preprint
Quantum Computing in the RAN with Qu4Fec: Closing Gaps Towards Quantum-based FEC processors ACM SIGMETRICS 2025.
Nikolaos Apostolakis, Marta Sierra-Obea, Marco Gramaglia, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Perez
Preprint PDF DOI
Comparative Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Relay Nodes for Energy Saving EuCNC 2025.
Jordi Perez-Romero, Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Anna Umbert, Juan Sanchez-Gonzalez, Xavier Costa-Perez
Preprint PDF DOI
FairRIC: Real-time Fair Allocation in O-RAN with Shared Computing IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
Fatih Aslan, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, George Iosifidis
Preprint PDF DOI
Kairos: Energy-efficient radio unit control for O-RAN via advanced sleep modes IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez
Preprint PDF DOI
TelecomRAG: Taming Telecom Standards with Retrieval Augmented Generation and LLMs ACM SIGCOMM CCR.
Girma M. Yilma, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez
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