Giuseppe Caire was born in Torino, Italy, in 1965. He received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), in 1990, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992 and the Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He was a recipient of the AEI G.Someda Scholarship in 1991, he was with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands) in 1994-1995 as research staff and, as research fellow, Princeton University in 1997 and Sydney University in summer 2000.

Giuseppe Caire has been assistant professor in Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino in 1995-1997, associate professor at the University of Parma, Italy, in 1997-1998 and professor at the Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis, France, in 1998-2005. He joined the EE Department of the Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, in August 2005.