Mónica Aguilar Igartua received her Msc and PhD degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1995 and 2000 respectively.
She is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Networking Engineering and a member of the Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks (SISCOM) at the UPC. Since 1995 she has been lecturing on data transmission, networking, QoS provision, and multihop wireless networks in the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB). She has been involved in several public funded national research projects in the field of network communications and communication protocols.
Currently, she participates in the Spanish COMPROMISE (Enhancing Communication Protocols with Machine Learning while Protecting Sensitive Data), MOBILYTICS (Anonymization technology for AI-based analytics of mobility data) and MobilitApp projects. She is committed to recruiting more women students for the STEM field and participates in the Una enginyera a cada escola program of the ETSETB.
Her research interests include design, analytical modelling and performance evaluation of multimetric routing protocols for vehicular networks. Her current work deals with the design of QoS-aware services for vehicular networks, electric vehicle, platooning, machine learning, smart city services and sustainable urban mobility.