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Salvatore Baglio

University of Catania

Italy

Salvatore Baglio

Biography

Salvatore Baglio received the “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

Since 1996 he is with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, where he is currently Full Professor of Instrumentation and Measurement.

Prof. Baglio teaches courses in “measurement theory,” “electronic instrumentations,” and “Micro and nanosensors”.

His research interests are mainly focused on micro and nanotechnologies for sensors and transducers, micro and nanosensors, hysteretic materials for sensors, nonlinear dynamics for transducers, methodologies and integrated devices for energy harvesting.

He has coauthored more than 400 scientific publications including papers in international journals and in proceedings of international conferences, books, chapters in books. He is also co-inventor in international patents.

Prof. Baglio is IEEE Fellow, has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems and for the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements, he has also been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Prof. Baglio is currently Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurements. He has been the General co-Chair of IEEE I2MTC 2018 and of IEEE SAS 2016 (SAS Steering Committee (2014-2017)).

Salvo Baglio is an I&M Society AdCom member (2015-2018) where he has served as Video Tutorials EIC (2015-2018), Faculty Course Development Award Selection Committee Member (2015-2016), Vice President Education (2016-2017), Society representative on IEEE Sensor Council AdCom (2017-2019, and the I&M Society AdCom Executive Vice President (2018-2019).

He is currently the Society President (2020-2021).

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University of Catania

Italy

Sebastian Yuri Catunda

Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

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Sebastian Yuri Catunda

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Biography

Sebastian Yuri Cavalcanti Catunda graduated in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1993), achieved M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Paraíba (1996) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2000) and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications - ENST, Paris. He was a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) from 1998 to 2011. At UFMA, he chaired the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering from 2005 to 2011. In 2011 he joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal, where he is currently a full professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation.

With the Brazilian Society of Automation (SBA), he founded the Instrumentation Committee in 2007 and was the society’s secretary of institutional relations from 2015 to 2016. He is Senior Member of IEEE since 2013. He founded in 2013 and presided until 2017, the Joint Chapter IEEE IMS / CASS of Bahia Section. He is a titular researcher, level 1D, in the Microelectronics area of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and member of its Advisory Board from 2012 to 2018. His research interests focus on instrumentation and microelectronics including the topics of sensors, analog and mixed circuits, embedded systems, and data acquisition systems, in which he has published more than 120 conferences and journals papers.

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Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

Branislav Djokic

National Research Council

Canada

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Sabrina Grassini

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

University of Sannio

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

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Biography

Sergio Rapuano achieved the MS degree in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1999 and the PhD degree in Computer Science, Applied Electromagnetism and Telecommunications in 2003 from University of Salerno, Italy.

In 2002 he joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sannio, where he currently is Associate Professor of Electric and Electronic Measurement at the Department of Engineering.

He is senior member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and member of the IEEE Standards Association. In particular, within the Instrumentation and Measurement Society he is: Chapter Chair liaison, member of the “Waveform Generation, Measurement and Analysis” Technical Committee (TC-10), chairing the Subcommittee on “Jitter Measurement”; member of the Technical Committee on “Education for Instrumentation and Measurement” (TC-23); vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Objective Blood Pressure Measurement formed within the Technical Committee on “Medical and Biological Measurements” (TC-25), secretary of the TC-25.

Since 2003 he participated in the organisation of several international scientific meetings in the field of Electronic Measurements: the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conferences, the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) TC-4 Symposia, the IEEE International Workshops on Medical Measurements and Applications, the IMEKO International Workshops on Analog to Digital Converters Modelling and Testing, playing different roles: session chairman, member of the technical program committee, technical co-chairman, general co-chairman.

He published more than 150 papers in international journals and in national and international conference proceedings on the following subjects: ADC and DAC Modelling and Testing, Digital Signal Processing, Distributed Measurement Systems, Medical Measurement and has been guest editor of the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Measurement, Computer Standards and Interfaces and International Journal of Advanced Media and Communications.

He received from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society the Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2007.

Affiliation(s)

University of Sannio

Italy

Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, & Electronics

Mexico

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés

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Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortés was born in Puebla, Mexico. He received the B.Sc. degree from the National Politechnique Institute, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE), and the Ph.D. degree from Texas Tech University, all in electrical engineering. Since 2007 he is at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico, with a current appointment as titular researcher “C”. He has served at INAOE in administrative positions as Academic Representative, Coordinator of the Electronics Department (2015-2016), and Research Director (2016-2017). He is currently member of the National Research System (SNI), level 2. From 1992 to 2007 he was with Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico, in several academic and administrative positions: faculty member, Graduate advisor, Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, Dean of the Engineering School, and University Academic Secretary. From 2002 to 2004 he was president of the National Association of Engineering Schools (ANFEI-MEXICO), and president of the Iberoamerican Association of Academic Engineering Institutions (ASIBEI). In 2006 he received an honorary appointment from Texas Tech University as Academy Member of the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department. He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), past president of IEEE Puebla Section, and founder Chair of the IEEE I&MS Puebla Chapter. IIn the last years he has been member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administrative Committee in several positions: Treasurer, Finance VP, President, and current Jr. Past-President. His scientific production to date consists of 56 refereed papers in scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and 150 papers in-extenso in proceedings of international conferences. He has been reviewer in several conferences and research journals, and project evaluator as RCEA member for CONACYT, Mexico. His research areas include signal and image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, computer vision, instrumentation and sensors.