Advisory Board

Svolge funzioni consultive volte all’individuazione di linee di ricerca che garantiscano l’intensificazione dei rapporti con il mondo imprenditoriale. I ruolo consultivo viene esercitato dai membri designati per rilevanza e contiguità con le tematiche di ricerca del dipartimento. Le attività dell’ Advisory Board sono promosse dal coordinatore in stretta relazione con la Commissione Trasferimento Tecnologico e la Commissione Ricerca.

Commissione (membri DET)

Advisory Board (membri aziendali) 2025-2027

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Luca Bagatin - Roj (Biella)

R&D Manager

• Coordinate the various teams of Roj R&D, defining project portfolios, objectives, priorities and resourses allocation for each team.
• Interact with R&D departments of VDW group, participating to common project definitions.
• Coordination of the project teams of the ROJ Mechatronics division.
• Product manager for a range of precision agriculture related products (ROJ Agri-motion)

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Alessandro Balossino - ARGOTECH, Direttore R&D

R&D Manager

Alessandro Balossino è il responsabile dell'unità di ricerca e sviluppo di Argotec, PMI torinese attiva nello sviluppo di microsatelliti ad alte prestazioni e nei servizi per il volo umano spaziale.
In qualità del suo ruolo coordina lo sviluppo di sistemi avionici e nuove tecnologie spaziali a basso TRL, la definizione della roadmap tecnologica dell'azienda, l'identificazione dei partner tecnologici e delle opportunità per la ricerca finanziata.
Prima del ruolo corrente in Argotec, Alessandro si è occupato di sistemi di sistemi per Entry, Descent and Landing, robotica mobile e sensoristica per applicazioni in ambito spazio e difesa.
Alessandro ha ottenuto la laurea magistrale in meccatronica presso il Politecnico di Torino nel 2013.

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Gianluca Bianco - IVECO

Head of manufactoring Engineering at IVECO group

Executive with a great combination of expertise in strategy/business development/operations/finance, outstanding organizational and leadership abilities and excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills.
Gianluca Bianco has more than 27 years international experience in building innovative engineering solutions covering strategic commercial and operational positions within the complex and challenging Automotive Industry, managing multi-cultural teams in complex and high demanding environments.

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Simona Bruni - IMST

Simona Bruni received the Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. 
She worked as a Researcher at the Defense, Security and Safety Institute, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). 
From 2007 to 2013, she worked as a Research and Development Antenna Engineer with the Calearo Advanced Technology (CAT) Department, Calearo SPA, Vicenza, Italy. 
Since 2013, she has been with the Antennas and EM Modeling Group, IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany, where she works as a Research and Development Antenna Engineer at the Antenna Front-End Team.

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Andrea Calvi - TelecomItalia

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Piero Costa  - Polo BioPmed

Ingegnere Biomedico laureato presso il Politecnico di Torino con Tesi svolta presso la Technische Universität München. 
Inizia la sua carriera nel 2005 come Direttore Tecnico e Rappresentante della Direzione in un’azienda produttrice di Dispositivi Medici per Ortopedia e Traumatologia e i diversi anni trascorsi nel settore gli hanno permesso di maturare esperienza e conoscenza nella gestione del ciclo di vita dei dispositivi medici e dei requisiti regolamentari applicabili. 
Dal 2018 Piero è B.S.I. Tutor e Part Time Lecturer presso il Politecnico di Torino, dove eroga formazione in ambito Dispositivi Medici. 
Piero ha gestito e gestisce come coordinatore diversi Progetti di R&S su Dispositivi Medici, collaborando in consorzi con imprese ed enti di ricerca.
Attualmente Vice-Presidente del Cluster BioPmed, collabora con STI Lualdi S.r.l., azienda attiva nel settore medicale, e Vision S.p.A. per lo sviluppo di dispositivi medici in ambito oncologico. 

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Davide Cuda - Google

Davide Cuda graduated from the Politecnico di Torino with 110/110 summa cum laude degree in Telecommunication Engineering in November 2005. In January 2009 he obtained his Ph.D. degree at Politecnico di Torino on resource allocation and fairness schemes in all optical networks and switching architectures. During his Ph. D., he spent an extensive stay at University of California, Davis.
From January 2010 to March 2011 he held a Post Doc position at the Italian National Research Council focusing his research on energy-efficient design of backbone networks and high-capacity switching architectures.
From March 2011 until March 2012 he worked as research engineer at Orange Labs R&D designing all future core networks and datacenter architectures. Davide Cuda is currently a research engineer at Telecom PariTech working on high-capacity scheduling algorithms. He was actively involved and managed several National and European research projects.
In November 2012, he joined Cisco System in Switzerland to work on as a software engineer on IOS platform. He actively contributed on the Medianet Cisco feature and actively proposed new network solutions exploiting SDN technologies (OpenFlow, OnePK, opendaylight controller).
Davide Cuda is currently at Google working as a software reliability engineer.

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Davide Daprà - Vishay

He graduated in June 2003 with a Master’s degree in Electronics from Politecnico di Torino. Between 2003 and 2010, he served as a teaching assistant in courses on electronics and power electronics, while also working as a freelance electronic designer and system engineer from 1992 to 2010.
In May 2010, he joined the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on electronic and microelectronic design for nanotechnology applications in space and avionics systems.
Since September 2011, he has been with Vishay Semiconduttori Italiana S.p.A., where he currently serves as Director of the ALPS Application Laboratory and the E-Mobility Team. In this role, he is responsible for the definition and characterization of silicon and silicon carbide diode and MOSFET platforms, as well as the design and testing of new custom power modules. He supports customers in new designs, field applications, failure analysis, and optimization, and oversees special testing for automotive production.
His activities also include benchmarking wide-bandgap devices, developing new platforms for advanced applications, and contributing to SPICE simulation and modeling—particularly through the creation and maintenance of LTspice libraries. He authors application notes and manuals on power semiconductors and designs advanced test systems for the characterization and modeling of high-voltage, high-speed devices.

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Fulvio Faraci - Metroconsult

Felice Fulvio Faraci è Presidente di Metroconsult dal 2018.
Prima di tale incarico, ha ricoperto il ruolo di Amministratore Delegato di Sisvel Technology, società tecnologica e di ricerca del Gruppo Sisvel e sino al 2015 di Direttore della Ricerca & Open Innovation in Telecom Italia.
E’ membro dell’Advisory Board di Piccola Industria e del consiglio ICT presso l’Unione Industriale di Torino; inoltre partecipa attivamente all’associazione Reseau Entreprendre Piemonte, che supporta la crescita delle start-up e dell’imprenditorialità.

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Franco Filippi - EPF Automation, CEO

Since 1995, CEO of EPF Automation, 'ALL IN'. Turnkey Solutions for Automation, Plastic and Energy plant.
EPF was founded in 1961 in Carrù and specialises in the fields of industrial automation, plastic injection molding and renewable energy on national and international scale as well. The desire to build a future of technological progress, combined with the ability to remain faithfully linked to its history and values, has allowed EPF to grow while maintaining balance between experience and innovation. Today, as in the past, the developing of innovative, reliable and sustainable solutions is EPF’s main goal.

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Marina Geymonat - Leonardo

Leader with a sound cultural background, excellent soft skills and strong technical expertise in Innovation and particularly in defining and delivering AI solutions to improve company's performance. Hands-on experience in Telecommunications, ranging from Network Management, through New Service Design and Prototyping, to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics with a special attention to designing for Humans and strong interest in Information Visualization. A working life spent in bringing innovation and fostering Digital Transformation throughout the Company. Problem solver with a systemic approach, able to deliver in short term while maintaining an overall vision. Especially good in building bridges between departments, disciplines, siloes, ending up in fruitful long term collaborations. Talented in driving and motivating groups (especially multicultural and cross-disciplinary teams) to work together with energy and passion, delivering great results even in complex, everchanging organisational contexts. Last experience while leading TIM AI Center of Excellence and operating a collaboration network with major Italian universities, acting as facilitator for collaboration both across Academic Institutions and between University and Industry. With AI becoming key for any company digital transition, we have worked with an incredible team to deliver enhanced customer experience, improving quality, while gaining efficiency throughout the company, contributing to its transformation. Current role SISAL includes creating from scratch the Innovation Lab, with the aim of promoting responsible gaming, with the use of cutting-edge technologies and an Open Innovation approach, involving Universities, research centers and start-ups

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Enrico Ghillino - Synopsys

R&D Sr. Architect
Enrico Ghillino is the technical lead on photonic circuit modeling and simulation of Synopsys Photonic Solutions. He works on the development of the simulator OptSim, helps identifying preferable technical solutions to high profile development tasks across teams, and gives technical advice and helps defining roadmaps.
He participates to external projects with high-profile customers and assist driving Synopsys perspective. He is also a member of the architecture team for the OptoCompiler Design Platform, with particular focus on the development of the electro-optical (EO) co-simulation of mixed electrical and photonic circuits.

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Stefano Gollinucci - Vodafone

Head of Steering, Transformation & Excellence for the Vodafone Networks Fixed & Mobile Access Operation
My area of expertise is telco networks: convergent transmission networks, from legacy to full-IP technologies in my current role, but I am familiar with Access, Core infrastructure as well. I have been managing teams of engineers and I am familiar with labour organization, people management, budget management, cost analysis, etc. I am quite an expert on maintenance contracts.
Due to my present and past roles I have been growing a network of contacts in other Countries and I am very comfortable to work in international teams.

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Paola Iovanna  - Ericsson

Paola Iovanna is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson. Her competences span several areas on the transport network architecture and control for several technologies. She is leading activities for Ericsson Research on transport solutions for 5G evolutions towards 6G, including C-RAN, convergence networks (radio and fixed access network), and on orchestration solutions for verticals. Since 2003 she has been working with different levels of responsibility in different EU projects and Network of Excellence as WP leader and Innovation manager. She in the technical committees of international conferences on optical network and is Associate Technical Editor to Communication Magazine. She holds more than 80 patents and is an author of more than 90 publications in either international scientific journals or conferences

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Luca Maria Lachello - COMAU

In COMAU SpA since 1989, he spent 26 years in the Robotics Business Unit where the main results were the conception of the fifth generation of Comau robot control units, the introduction of a new RealTime operating system and the adoption of Quaternions for robot spatial rotations.
In collaboration with POLITO, in the RoboLab hosted in COMAU, he led the development of a Robot Trajectory Planner capable of making the most of the mechanical and electrical characteristics of the robots and of an innovative iterative inverse kinematics algorithm. He recently led the COMAU Digital Factory, an international team of over 30 engineers that develops the COMAU IIoT platform according to the AGILE methodology.
He currently manages the Digital and Software area at COMAU's e-Mobility Global Competence Center.

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Toktam Mahmodi - Centre for Telecommunications Research, Department of Engineering, King's College London

Toktam Mahmoodi [S’06, M’09, SM’16] is a Professor of Communication Engineering and a member of the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR), in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London. She served as the director of CTR between 2018 and 2025, and has hold several advisory and industry positions, with Transport for London (TfL), F5 Networks, and Siemens. Toktam has been chair and vice-chair of IEEE WICE, 2024-2025, 2023-2024, and vice-chair of IEEE ComSoc Aerial Communication Emerging Tech initiative.  Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking, and includes network intelligence, edge learning and networking, ultra-low latency networking, and network modelling and optimization. She has contributed to the ETSI, IETF and 3GPP standards, and has played an active role within 5GPPP in defining 5G vision for vertical industries. She has also served on number of editorial boards including the executive editor of ETT, guest editor of JSAC series on network softwarization, area editor of IEEE Communications Standard Magazine on management & orchestration, and editor of IEEE communication letters. Toktam served as technical committee chair and member of various IEEE ComSoc conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, PIMRC, WCNC, and ICT.

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Cesare Mangone - Progetti S.r.l.

CEO e Presidente di Progetti s.r.l. la maggior azienda italiana di defibrillatori, ventilatori e monitor pazienti.
L'azienda è a Trofarello. Il dottor Mangone è laureato in chimica all'università di Torino e ha ottenuto un MBA congiunto tra Politecnico di Torino e Boston University.
Ha collaborato con il DET finanziando borse di dottorato in apprendistato.

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Manuela Martini - E-mentor

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Rosalba Mugno - Accredia

She received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Metrology: Science and Technique of Measurement.
From 1999 to 2006 she was head of metrology, chief of Manufacturing of CMM Industry and head of the accredited Calibration Laboratory No. 138.
In 2007 she joined the National Calibration System until 2013.
In 2014 she becomes an employee of ACCREDIA.
Since 2015 she has been Director of the Calibration Laboratories Department at ACCREDIA.
She has skills in metrology and management systems.
Since 2019 she has been Vice President of the Technical Commission “Metrology” of the National Standardization Organization

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Antonio Napoli - Infinera

"Antonio Napoli holds a Ph.D. from the Politecnico di Torino. 
He was with Siemens, NSN, and Coriant in 2006, 2007, 2013, respectively. 
Since 2018, he has been with Infinera, where now he leads the strategy architecture engineering team. 
He served as an OFC TPC member (2017-2019). 
He has been three times guest editor for JOCN and JLT. 
He is the principal investigator for Infinera in three EU funded projects: B5G-OPEN, ALLEGRO, and SEASON; and three Maria Curie Skłodowska Actions (MENTOR, EMPOWER-6G, NESTOR). 
His research interests include coherent point-to-multipoint optical networks, digital signal processing, wideband optical systems, transmission modeling, and ML/AI for optics. 
Dr. Napoli co-authored 7 patents, 250+ peer-to-peer reviewed articles, and one book chapter."

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Davide Pandini - ST Microelectronics

Advanced CMOS Technology Technical Director and a Fellow of ST Technical Staff
Davide Pandini holds a Laurea Degree (summa cum laude) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna, a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Padova, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
He was a research intern at Philips Research Labs. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and at Digital Equipment Corp., Western Research Labs. in Palo Alto, CA. He joined STMicroelectronics in Agrate Brianza, Italy, in 1995, where he is an Advanced CMOS Technology Technical Director and a Fellow of ST Technical Staff.
His current research interests include advanced CMOS technologies in 28nm FDSOI and FinFET, power optimization and integrity, reliability, innovative design methodologies for ASIC design, RF design for 5G applications. He was a work-package manager in several funded European Projects. Dr. Pandini has authored and coauthored more than fifty papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and during the academic years from 1998 to 2000, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Brescia. He served on the program committee of several premiere international conferences, among which DAC, DATE, ICCD, ESSDERC, and EMC-COMPO, and he is a TPC co-chair of ESSDERC/ESSCIR 2022. Dr. Pandini received the ST Corporate STAR 2008 Gold Award for leading the excellence team in EMC-aware design, and the STAR 2020 Gold Award for an innovative design in 7nm FinFET.
Since June 2015, Dr. Pandini is the Chairman of the ST Italy Technical Staff Steering Committee.
Among his other interests, Dr. Pandini is a Certified Financial Technician of IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts), holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the CMT Association, and he is a Professional Member of SIAT (Societa’ Italiana Analisi Tecnica). In 2021 Dr. Pandini was the recipient of the prestigious XII SIAT Technical Analyst Award in the Open category.
He served as Volunteer at Universal Exhibition Expo2015 – Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life - in Milano, Italy.

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Roberto Paoletti - MBDA Italy

Dr. Roberto Paoletti received MSc in Electronic Engineering in 1991, and Doctorate in Electronics (PhD) at Polytechnic of Turin, in 1994, dealing with packaging, simulation and characterization of semiconductor lasers. Since 1995 he has worked in several companies (CSELT corporate research center of Telecom Italia, Agilent Technologies, Avago Technologies) for Research & Development of optical components for telecom market. In 2014 he joined Convergent Photonics, heading the semiconductor development group in Torino, dealing with development and production of high power laser systems; since 2023 he is with MBDA Italy. In his career he developed skills of design for manufacturing, engineering and long-term reliability of semiconductor lasers and high power fiber laser. He has been leading R&D projects, and coordinating R&D and Production Teams in global organisations for development and production of photonic devices. He is author and co-author of more than 50 publications on Journals and International Conference Proceedings, a semiconductor laser book and 12 patents.

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Chrysa Papagianni - University of Amsterdam

She is an Assistant Professor in the MNS group of the Institute of Informatics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on network softwarization and programmability, including software-defined networking, network slicing and orchestration, as well as AI/ML-driven network intelligence and automation for next-generation networks.
She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NETMODE Lab (ECE/NTUA) and later as a Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she served as a network research engineer at the End-to-End Network Service Automation Lab at Nokia Bell Labs in Belgium.

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Federico Perrero - Bitron Electronics

Quality and Business Processes Digitalization Director

Oversee Quality: System Engineering and Customer Satisfaction, IT, and Analytics activities for Electronic Division encompassing four manufacturing plants and three R&D sites.
Refine and transform business operations to mitigate risks to company and advance customer satisfaction.
Drive global service analytics with focus on assisting users achieve excellent performances though data optimisation.

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Dario Rossi - Huawei

I am a Chief Expert at Huawei, leading a team of researchers using machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve hard networking problems.
I received my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from UPMC (2010), my PhD (2005) and MSc (2001) degrees from Politecnico di Torino.
Before joining Huawei in 2018, I occupied a Chair Professor (2016-2018), Full Professor (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2006-2012) positions at the Computer Science and Networking department of Telecom ParisTech as well as a Full Professor (2012-2019) position at the LIX department of Ecole Polytechnique.
Prior to that, I worked with the Telecommunication Network Group of the Electrical Engineering department at Politecnico di Torino (2001-2006). Between september 2003 and august 2004, I held a Visiting Researcher position in the Computer Science division at University of California, Berkeley.
I am very passionate in my work and always open for new challenges. Currently I put my passion at work on research interests such as Machine learning, Internet traffic measurement, and high speed all-sofware networking. Formerly I also worked on congestion control, Information centric networks, green networking, peer-2-peer networks, traffic engineering vehicular networks. To summarize my achievements in these last few years, I have coauthored 15+ patents and 200+ papers in leading conferences (including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT and ACM IMC) and journals (including IEEE JSAC, ACM/IEEE TON, ACM CCR, IEEE TMM).

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Roberto Sannino - STMicroelectronics, Responsabile R&D sistemi embedded

Senior Manager experienced in leading the growth of strategic know-how on innovative system applications. Relevant expertise in technology development and marketing acquired in U.S. and Italy.
I consider the customers, partners and colleagues I work with as the most valuable asset in my professional life.
Specialties: Embedded platforms development in robotics (Vision, Inertial, Audio and acoustics, control), telecom and consumer, strategy, partnerships, standardization, software development, real-time, forward and reverse engineering, signal processing.

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Andrea Segato Bertaia - Alba Robot s.r.l.

CEO and co-founder of ALBA Robot S.r.l.
ALBA Robot provides a modular and configurable platform to integrate autonomous driving, voice assistants and robotic technologies into personal vehicles (wheelchairs, mobility scooters,). Thanks to the great experience on safety critical applications for transport industries, ALBA Robot is developing fleets of connected autonomous vehicles, able to safely move people and goods, satisfying the needs from facilities and private users to realize new, advanced, autonomous and cost effective mobility services, reducing the need of caregivers. ALBA Robot technologies can be used to realize new mobility fleets or retrofitting existing ones, transforming them into autonomous and smart. They can also be used to simply localize existing vehicles, one of the most expensive issues facilities have to face.

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Roberto Senatore - Honeywell

Expert in inertial systems, sensor fusion, and embedded architectures for aerospace, UAV, and marine applications. He has extensive experience in software qualification according to DO-178B and complex electronic hardware qualification according to DO-254 for Attitude and Heading Reference Systems certified by ENAC/EASA. His expertise includes software, firmware, and VHDL architecture design for real-time processing of inertial and GPS data, sensor diagnostics, failure detection, communication protocols, and advanced filtering techniques. He has strong expertise in Kalman filter design and tuning, stochastic and deterministic modeling of MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers, calibration of MEMS inertial sensors and AMR magnetometers, and the development of navigation and stabilization algorithms for high-performance embedded systems.

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Antonia Simone - Thales Alenia

Since 2017 leads the Materials and Infrastructure Design Solutions Unit (DESI-ENG) for the development and validation of innovative solutions in the frame of materials and technologies
Study manager of R&D studies on nanomaterials, AM, SMART3D, new materials, deployable structures
Proposal and/or Bid manager for Regione Piemonte, EU, ASI and ESA proposal
Author or co-author of more than 30 papers on advanced materials and technologies and of Italian and European Patents
Responsible of the Eng. Technological areas devoted to Space material characterization

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Sabina Spiga - CNR

Sabina Spiga received the Degree in Physics from the Università di Bologna in 1995 and the PhD in Material Science in 2002 from Università di Milano. She is staff researcher at CNR-IMM–Unit of Agrate Brianza (Italy) since 2004, and she is currently leading a research team developing oxide-based resistive switching non-volatile memories and memristive devices for neuromorphic systems. She is currently principal Investigator for CNR of the project European project-Horizo2020 NeuRAM3-NEUral computing aRchitectures in Advanced Monolithic 3D-VLSI nano-technologies; and since 2014 she is also member of the Management Committee for Italy of the COST Action ICT 1401-“Memristors-Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and Applications. S. Spiga is co-author of more than 100 publications on peer reviewed journals and proceedings. She co-organized several symposia and workshops and national and international level, and in 2013/2014 she participated to the IEDM Memory Technology subcommittee.

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William Tomaselli  - TIM

Testing indirizzato a valutare la robustezza e l’affidabilità delle piattaforme di core network mobile 4G e 5G distribuite basate su User Data Management (UDM) quali CUDB, HLR-FE, virtual SLF/HSS Front End ed architetture HLR Layered, soluzioni che stanno alla base dei servizi end-to-end di tipo multimedia e voce su tecnologie LTE-IMS-VoLTE
Conoscenze mirate dell’ambiente Google Cloud Computing conseguite attraverso certificati ottenuti recentemente grazie ad una partnership tecnico commerciale tra TIM e Google.
Conoscenze solide dell’ambiente di testing delle tecnologie (nodi di rete virtuali e relative funzionalità software) basate su ambiente virtuale, principalmente delle soluzioni VNF Red Hot-RHOSP brandizzate Dell ed HP
Conoscenza mirata della tecnologia 5G basate su entrambe le architetture Stand-Alone e Not Stand-Alone principalmente focalizzata e finalizzata sullo sviluppo di nuove metodologie di testing che dovranno essere adottate per le soluzioni di Core Network Mobile e delle relative funzionalità principalmente basate su Application Programming Interface (API).

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Andrea Vitali - ST Microelectronics

Prototyping, test and industrialization of reference designs and sensor platforms. Sensor DSP and algorithm design, software models and hardware implementation, for key customers in the Bay Area (FAANG). Coordinating development activities with product divisions (MEMS, Microcontrollers, Power), central labs (Development, R&D), and regional organization (America region, Support and Marketing). Andrea Vitali joined STMicroelectronics in 2000 as part of the system R&D team.
Currently, Vitali is driving marketing and support local customers in the field of MEMS sensors and Internet of Things. From 2008 to 2012 he worked in the field of bioelectronics/biomedical field, exploiting micro-electro-mechanical-silicon sensors, designing wearable electronics to detect biologic signals and developing algorithms to extract significant biological parameters. Prior to that, he worked on image compression, video coding, robust source and joint source/channel coding, adaptive multimedia play-out, metadata for multimedia signals, graphical interfaces.
Training and teaching has been important for Vitali. From 2004-2012 he was professor at Bergamo University, teaching MicroElectronics and from 2007-2010 he was also a professor at the University of Milan teaching MultiMedia Information Coding.
Mr. Vitali holds a Masters in Electronics Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan in 1998. He has published several papers and holds several patents granted in Europe and the United States.

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Xi Li - NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany 

M.Sc. from TU Dresden (2002)
Ph.D. from University of Bremen (2009)
Research Fellow/Lecturer (2003–2014)
Solution Designer at Telefónica Germany (2014–2015)
Senior Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe since 2015

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Luca Zai - Titolo personale, ex ELDOR

Luca Zai is an independent executive advisor in the field of e-Mobility and innovation. He delivers in strategic and operational areas of high impact for international clients, from business development to product engineering and technological pipeline. 
His experience encompasses a wide portfolio of E-Mobility solutions from early stage ideation, from business and technical perspective, to the start of development for mass production. Luca established and supervised several research programs in electric motors, power electronics and controls with a high degree of innovative content and conversion to proven applications.
He ideated and developed novel archetypes for e-powertrain systems and components. Co-inventor of 14 patent families in the field. In his career in the automotive industry Luca held roles of increasing responsibility with leading consulting and manufacturing corporations, up to the position of Chief Technology Officer, working on a range of vehicle systems and components in liaison with OEMs and first-tier suppliers worldwide.
His expertise developed particularly in the areas of systems engineering, electric-hybrid vehicles and technology & strategic management. Luca holds an MSc in Automotive Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School.