Romina Garcia Camargo

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

[still under construction]

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro in the Alelab. My early Ph.D. research focused on resource allocation in wireless systems and decentralized collaboration in robot swarms—two topics I aim to bridge for my dissertation.

Back home in Montevideo, Uruguay, I earned my B.Sc. in Communication Systems Engineering from Universidad de la República. My capstone project involved building a low-cost Automatic Identification System (AIS) transceiver station for ships, under the supervision of Claudina Rattaro. As an undergraduate, I spent three years as a teaching and research assistant at the Electrical Engineering Institute, where I worked with Prof. Federico La Rocca on mobile ad-hoc networking.

I am passionate about teaching and mentorship through hands-on activities. My experience includes teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in data networks, wireless communications, and machine learning, and running workshops for high school girls to help close the gender gap in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). I also help organize an annual radiofrequency Capture the Flag competition.

news

Jul 20, 2026	Our new preprint “Long-Horizon Wireless Link Scheduling with State-Augmented Graph Neural Networks” is available on Arxiv.
Jun 15, 2026	Our paper “Limit Analysis of Graph Neural Networks with Wireless Conflict Graphs” has been at accepted at SPAWC 2026!
May 04, 2026	I travelled to Barcelona to present a poster at ICASSP 2026
Jan 31, 2026	Our paper “Scalable Multi Agent Diffusion Policies for Coverage Control” has been at accepted at ICRA 2026!
Jan 17, 2026	Our paper “Graph Neural Networks in Large Scale Wireless Communication Networks: Scalability Across Random Geometric Graphs” has been at accepted at ICASSP 2026!

selected publications

Signal Processing

Graph Neural Networks in Large Scale Wireless Communication Networks: Scalability Across Random Geometric Graphs

Romina Garcia Camargo, Zhiyang Wang, and Alejandro Ribeiro

In ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{camargo2026gnntransferability,
  author = {Camargo, Romina Garcia and Wang, Zhiyang and Ribeiro, Alejandro},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  title = {Graph Neural Networks in Large Scale Wireless Communication Networks: Scalability Across Random Geometric Graphs},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {616-620},
  keywords = {Radio broadcasting;Frequency modulation;Filtering;Filters;Circuits and systems;Wireless communication;Wireless networks;Communication networks;Communication systems;Network architecture;transferability;graph neural networks;random geometric graphs},
  doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11460522}
}

Robotics

A Scalable Multi-Robot Framework for Decentralized and Asynchronous Perception-Action-Communication Loops

Saurav Agarwal, Frederic Vatnsdal, Romina Garcia Camargo, and 2 more authors

2025

Bib

@misc{agarwal2025scalablemultirobotframeworkdecentralized,
  title = {A Scalable Multi-Robot Framework for Decentralized and Asynchronous Perception-Action-Communication Loops},
  author = {Agarwal, Saurav and Vatnsdal, Frederic and Camargo, Romina Garcia and Kumar, Vijay and Ribeiro, Alejandro},
  year = {2025},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.RO},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10164}
}

Signal Processing

Limit Analysis of Graph Neural Networks with Wireless Conflict Graphs

Romina Garcia Camargo, Zhiyang Wang, and Alejandro Ribeiro

2026

Bib

@misc{camargo2026limitanalysisgraphneural,
  title = {Limit Analysis of Graph Neural Networks with Wireless Conflict Graphs},
  author = {Camargo, Romina Garcia and Wang, Zhiyang and Ribeiro, Alejandro},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Preprint},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.LG},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03794}
}

Robotics

Scalable Multi Agent Diffusion Policies for Coverage Control

Frederic Vatnsdal, Romina Garcia Camargo, Saurav Agarwal, and 1 more author

In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{vatnsdal2026diffusion,
  author = {Vatnsdal, Frederic and Camargo, Romina Garcia and Agarwal, Saurav and Ribeiro, Alejandro},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {Scalable Multi Agent Diffusion Policies for Coverage Control},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {},
  number = {}
}

Signal Processing

Wireless Link Scheduling with State-Augmented Graph Neural Networks

Romina Garcia Camargo, Zhiyang Wang, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, and 1 more author

In 2025 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{garciacamargo2025wirelesslinkscheduling,
  author = {Camargo, Romina Garcia and Wang, Zhiyang and NaderiAlizadeh, Navid and Ribeiro, Alejandro},
  booktitle = {2025 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers},
  title = {Wireless Link Scheduling with State-Augmented Graph Neural Networks},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1069-1073},
  keywords = {Processor scheduling;Wireless networks;Dynamic scheduling;Performance metrics;Numerical simulation;Graph neural networks;Stability analysis;Topology;Optimization;Numerical stability;Link scheduling;state augmentation;graph neural networks},
  doi = {10.1109/IEEECONF67917.2025.11443920}
}

Education

Code huntresses: Promoting gender equity in icts

Romina Garcı́a, Alejandra Armendariz Voelker, Julieta Umpierrez, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the XV Congress of Latin American Women in Computing 2023 (LAWCC 2023) co-located with XLIX Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI 2023), La Paz, Bolivia, 18-19 oct. 2023, pp. 44-55., 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{garcia2023codehuntresses,
  title = {Code huntresses: Promoting gender equity in icts},
  author = {Garc{\'\i}a, Romina and Armendariz Voelker, Alejandra and Umpierrez, Julieta and Rattaro, Claudina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the XV Congress of Latin American Women in Computing 2023 (LAWCC 2023) co-located with XLIX Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI 2023), La Paz, Bolivia, 18-19 oct. 2023, pp. 44-55.},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}
}

Education

Gamifying Signals: Communications-Themed Capture the Flag for Outreach, Engagement, and Education

Federico Larroca, Gonzalo Belcredi, Romina García Camargo, and 4 more authors

IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{larroca2025gamifying,
  author = {Larroca, Federico and Belcredi, Gonzalo and Camargo, Romina García and González, Gastón García and Inglés, Lucas and Mariño, Camilo and Randall, Martín},
  journal = {IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje},
  title = {Gamifying Signals: Communications-Themed Capture the Flag for Outreach, Engagement, and Education},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {20},
  number = {},
  pages = {328-337},
  keywords = {Hardware;Education;Telecommunications;Receivers;Frequency modulation;Filtering;Radio transmitters;Software radio;Problem-solving;Software defined radio (SDR);telecommunications;capture the flag (CTF);tournament;problem-based learning},
  doi = {10.1109/RITA.2025.3620720}
}

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.