Sergio Saponara

Prof. Sergio Saponara, IEEE Senior Member, got Master Degree cum laude and PhD degree, both in Electronic Engineering, from University of Pisa. In 2002 he was a Marie Curie Research fellow at the IMEC, Belgium. He teaches courses of Vehicular Electronics, Electronic Systems for Robotics, Signal Integrity and Electronics for Wireless Systems at Pisa University where he is also the director of the Summer School "Enabling technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT)", member of the PhD program committee in Information Engineering and co-founder of the Master in Automotive Engineering. He also teaches Electronics at the Italian Naval Academy.

He is member of 2 IEEE standardization activities, of 3 Technical Committees of the IEEE IM Society, of the IEEE Special Interest group in IoT and of the World Forum on IoT. He served in the organization of 100 international conferences, most from IEEE and SPIE. He served as member of the reviewing board of more than 50 journals from IEEE, IET, Elsevier and Springer. He held plenary/invited talks and tutorials and got awards at IEEE and SPIE conferences. He is also Associate Editor or Guest Editor in 7 international journals. He co-authored about 300 international scientific publications and 17 patents. His H-index is 25.

His technology transfer activity includes collaborations with Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Selex, Ericsson, Piaggio, Magna, Valeo, ABB, AMS, CAEN, Sitael, Intecs, Rico, Flyby, CEG. He is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Ingeniars srl a spin-off company of the University of Pisa, which has been awarded in the Horizon2020 SME Instruments program. He served as project manager or WP manager in several national and international research projects. He is associate member of the Italian National Institutes for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). He joined the NEWCOM and HIPEAC European networks of excellence.