Pedro S. Rodríguez Hernández
Retired Professor
University of Vigo (Spain)
I received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in March 1989, in the specialty of Telematics.
Between 1985 and 1989 I worked in Electrónica ENSA (Grupo Ceselsa, currently Indra), in the design and development of the MK-9500 Electronic Defense system for the Spanish Navy.
Between 1989 and 1990 I worked at Amper, in the joint development with Telefónica I + D of the SD-200 multi-service digital exchange.
In 1990 I joined the University of Vigo.
I collaborated with the Real Time Open Systems Center (Cesat).
Between 1997 and 2003, I was part of the Teaching Staff of the Postgraduate Program in Telematics of the CaixaGalicia Foundation (currently Afundación) and the University of A Coruña.
In 1997 I did a research stay at the Real-Time and Multimedia Laboratory of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA).
I received a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo (1998).
Until my retirement in August 2026, I was a Full Professor at the University of Vigo within the Department of Telematics Engineering at the University of Vigo (previously, I was part of the Department of Communications Technologies, until its division on June 19, 2001). In the academic year 2021-2022, I teach Programming I and Embedded Systems Design, at the Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering, and Distributed Computing, at the Telecommunication Engineering Master. See Teaching section
Between June 2000 and February 2003, I served as Deputy Director of the Vigo School of Telecommunications Engineering (EET). Between March 2021 and March 2024, I served as Secretary and Deputy Director for New Degree Programmes at the EET, and between March 2024 and March 2026, as Secretary and Deputy Director for Student Recruitment and Outreach.
Between September 2002 and July 2004 I was a member of the Board of Directors of ISOC-GAL, Galicia Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC).
Between February 2014 and June 2016 I was Coordinator of the Basic Training Module and member of the Academic Commission of the Master in Telecommunication Engineering of the School of Telecommunication Engineering of the University of Vigo.
I was a member of the GTI research group (Information Technology Group: TC-1) of the University of Vigo, with a multitude of articles published in international journals, as well as communications to international conferences.
I am part of atlanTTic, the Research Center for Telecommunication Technologies driven by the University of Vigo.
I led major national and international projects, including the University of Vigo’s participation in the CENIT TelMAX project in collaboration with Indra. I also participated in projects such as CENIT mIO!, the BeInGrid integrated project under the Sixth Framework Programme, and the Avanza www:sla@cloud project on monitoring cloud service-level agreements, in collaboration with Aldaba. I led the E-IMRT II project, in collaboration with Gradiant and CESGA and funded by the Xunta de Galicia.
My research interests included high-performance embedded systems, real-time systems, mobile wireless networks, and parallel and multi-objective optimization. See Research section.