Prof. Stefano Bregni (M'93-SM'99) is with Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He graduated in Electronics Engineering in 1990. After nine years in industry, he joined Politecnico di Milano in 1999. He contributed to ETSI/ITU-T Standards on network synchronization. He is an author of 100+ papers and of a recognized book on network synchronization (Wiley, 2002).
He has served as a tireless IEEE volunteer for more than 25 years. In 2022, he has been elected on the IEEE Board of Directors as Division III Director-Elect (2023-2025). He has been a voting member of the IEEE Conferences Committee (2019-20). In the IEEE Communications Society, he holds or has held the following leadership positions: Director of Conference Operations (2022-23), Vice-President for Conferences (2018-19, 2020-21), Vice-President for Member and Global Activities (2014-2015, 2016-17), Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors (2010-13), Director of Education (2008-9, 2010-11), GITC member (2006–2009), Chair of the Transmission, Access, Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee (2008-2009). He was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for seven years, visiting 14 countries and 29 IEEE Sections worldwide, giving 40+ lectures on synchronization. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Global Communications Newsletter (since 2007) and Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is co-founder and Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition.
He has led several top IEEE ComSoc conferences, including as: Technical Program Co-Chair/Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2023, ICC 2016, GLOBECOM 2012 and GLOBECOM 2009, Vice General Chair of GLOBECOM 2022, Symposium Co-Chair in nine other ICC/GLOBECOMs, Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM).
He received the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award (2019) and the IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences (2014).