Speakers bio

Sebastien Boria — R&D Mechatronic Technology Leader / CoC Manufacturing Engineering - Airbus
Bio: S. Boria joined Airbus in 2003. He is managing the mechatronic stream of the Future of Aircraft Factory project, and more specifically every project related to smart production systems (based on CPS concept) and advanced robotics (from the industrial open robot interface to collaborative robotics). He holds an Engineer’s Degree/M.Sc Eng in mechatronics engineering and a M.Sc Res in low level automation control

Dr. Andrea De Luca - University of Cambridge and Flusso Ltd.

Bio: Dr. Andrea De Luca graduated from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) with a 1st class degree in Electronic Engineering in 2011. In 2015 he obtained his PhD on smart sensors for harsh environments from the University of Cambridge (UK), where he currently is a research associate and Leader of the a sensors area within the HVMS group. Since 2016 he is Junior Research Fellow at the Emmanuel College (Cambridge, UK). He is also co-founder and director of Flusso Ltd., a spin-off company from the Engineering dept. of University of Cambridge devoted to commercialisation of flow, pressure and temperature sensors. Dr. Andrea De Luca won one IEEE best paper award and was part of the team awarded by the European Commission with the Innovation Award 2015 for the FP7 project “SOI-HITs”. He is author or co-author of 50 publications in journals and international conferences, co-author of a book chapter, he holds one granted patent and is co-inventor of five patent applications.

Prof. T. Bosch - ENSHEEIT / LAAS-CNRS, France
Bio: Thierry BOSCH was born in 1965. In 1993, he joined the Department of Automatic Control and Production Systems at the Engineering School of Mines of Nantes, as an Assistant Professor. He was a head of group on optoelectronics, instrumentation and sensors from 1993 to 2000. He is presently a Full Professor at INPT and he is leading the group of Optoelectronics for Embedded Systems of the LAAS-CNRS. His scientific interests are related to laser industrial instrumentation development including range finding techniques, vibration and velocity measurements. He has cooperated in several programs of R&D with European companies active in the areas of sensor design, metrology, transportation or avionics. He has co-authored around 50 papers in archival journals and he has been invited to author the chapter dedicated to self-mixing sensors published in the Encyclopedia of Sensors. He has organized several national and international meetings either as a Chairman or a Steering/Program Committee member. He has been Guest co-Editor for Journal of Optics (June 1998 and November 2002) and Optical Engineering (January 2001) on Distance/Displacement Measurements by Laser Techniques and chaired the International Conference ODIMAP in 1997. With Prof. Marc Lescure, he has edited the Milestone Volume entitled "Selected Papers on Laser Distance Measurements" published by SPIE in 1995. In 2011, he was chairing the special session on self-mixing during the IEEE Sensors 10th Annual Conference. He is nowadays Senior Member IEEE, and serves as Chairman of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technical Committee "Laser & Optical Systems" and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (1997-2010). He won the Mechatronics Award (Research Category) during the European Mechatronics Meeting in 2010 and the Jean Ebbeni Price from the CMOI Technical Committee of the French Optical Society in 2011.

Dr.Marina Cole - Warwick University, UK

Bio: Dr. Marina Cole has a background in resonant sensors based on piezoelectric materials and instrumentation. Her research interests are also in integrated silicon-based sensors, analogue, digital and mixed signal ASIC devices, smart sensors, actuators and microsystems. Dr. Marina Cole joined the Smart Sensors and Devices Research Group at Warwick University in 1996 as a post-doctoral research assistant. For two years she worked on the EPSRC funded project on the design of an intelligent gas array sensor for environmental monitoring. Dr Cole was appointed to a lectureship in electronic engineering and became a member of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Division in September 1998 and since then she has been working in parallel in the areas of smart CMOS gas sensors and SAW sensors for liquid applications. She is currently supervising 3 PhD students and one MPhil student and has EPSRC funding for the development of novel implementation techniques for a wavelet-based broadband signal detection system. Dr Cole has published over 30 technical papers in scientific journals, edited books and at the international conferences. Dr Cole is a member of the technical program committee for the IEEE Sensors conference (2002-2006) and a reviewer for Sensors & Actuators and IEEE Sensors Journal.

Prof. Ozgur Akan - Univ. of Cambridge, UK

Bio: Prof Ozgur B. Akan is the Head of the Internet of Everything (IoE) Group at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. His research interests are in theoretical and experimental research on nanoscale, molecular, and neural communications, cyber-physical systems, 5G and THz wireless mobile networks, distributed social sensing, and cognitive radio and sensor networks. He is an IEEE Fellow, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IET Communications, and Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier). He served as the General Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2017, ACM MobiCom 2012 and IEEE MoNaCom 2012, and TPC Co-Chair for ACM NanoCom 2014. He is the author of more than 230 articles in the field of next-generation communication technologies (with 8800+ citations, H-index of 45). He is appointed as an IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer (2017-) and IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2011-2013). He received IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award 2011, IEEE ComSoc 2010 Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA Region, IBM Faculty Award 2008 and 2010. He is awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant for 2014-2019, and ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant in 2017; and the total amount of research funding he has received so far exceeds 5M Euros.

Prof. Alessandra Costanzo - Univ. of Bologna, Italy

Bio: Alessandra Costanzo is associate professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. In April 2017, she received the national qualification to full professor. She is currently involved in research activities dedicated to the wireless power transmission, adopting both far-field and near-field solutions, for several power levels and operating frequencies. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications on peer reviewed international journals and conferences and several chapter books. She co-founded the EU COST action IC1301 WiPE “Wireless power transfer for sustainable electronics” where she chairs WG1: “far-field wireless power transfer”. She chairs the MTT-26 committee on wireless energy transfer and conversion. She is AE of the IEEE Transaction on MTT, of the Cambridge International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies and of the Cambridge International Journal of WPT. She is steering committee chair of the new IEEE Journal of RFID. She is MTT representative and Distinguished Lecturer of the CRFID. She is IEEE senior member.

Prof. Mohamed Kaaniche - LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Bio: Mohamed Kaâniche is currently  “Directeur de Recherche”, at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France,  heading the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance Group.  His research addresses the design and assessment of resilient and secure critical cyber-physical systems and information infrastructures. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and acted as a consultant for several companies in France and as an expert for the European Commission. He has served on the program and organization committees of major international dependability related conferences. He was Program Co-Chair of PRDC-2004, EDCC-2005, DSN-PDS 2010, LADC-2011 and SAFECOMP- 2013. He was General co-Chair of the 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2016) and is currently Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. From March 1997 to February 1998, he was a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

Prof. Nuno Carvalho - Univ. of Aveiro, Protugal ; IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguish Lecturer

Bio: Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05-F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received the Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He has been a reviewer and author of over 200 papers in magazines and conferences. He is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave Magazine and Cambridge Wireless Power Transfer Journal.

 He is the co-inventor of four patents. His main research interests include software-defined radio front-ends, wireless power transmission, nonlinear distortion analysis in microwave/wireless circuits and systems, and measurement of nonlinear phenomena. He has recently been involved in the design of dedicated radios and systems for newly emerging wireless technologies.

 Dr. Borges Carvalho is the co-chair of the IEEE MTT-20 Technical Committee and the past-chair of the IEEE Portuguese Section and MTT-11, he is the vice-chair of MTT-20 and also belong to the technical commitees, MTT-11, MTT-24 and MTT-26. He is also the chair of the URSI-Portugal Metrology Group. He was the recipient of the 1995University of Aveiro and the Portuguese Engineering Association Prize for the best 1995 student at the University of Aveiro, the 1998 Student Paper Competition (Third Place) of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS), and the 2000 IEE Measurement Prize.

Prof. Apostolos Georgiadis - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Bio: Apostolos Georgiadis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2002. He is Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He has been involved for more than 20 years in the field of RF/microwave wireless systems. His research interests include energy harvesting and wireless power transmission and inkjet and 3D printed electronics. He was Associate Editor of the IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation Journals, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters and the IEEE RFID Virtual Journal. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal on RFID and he is the founder and Editor in Chief of the Wireless Power Transfer journal by Cambridge University Press. He is a EU Marie Curie Global Fellow. He is Member of the IEEE MTT-S TC-24 RFID Technologies (past Chair) and Member of IEEE MTT-S TC-26 Wireless Energy Transfer and Conversion. He is Vice Chair of URSI Commission D, Electronics and Photonics and Vice President of Conferences of the IEEE Council on RFID. He has published more than 160 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. In 2016 his proposal for Inkjet/3D printed millimeter wave systems  received the Bell Labs Prize, 3rd place among more than 250 proposals recognizing ideas that 'change the game' in the field of information and communications technologies.

Dr. Nicola Accettura - LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Nicola Accettura is associate researcher within the "Services and Architectures for Advanced Networks" team at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France. His research targets design and performance evaluation of communication networks, focusing on very low power technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) environments. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force, contributing to the standardization efforts of the IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) working group. Between 2014 and 2015 he was postdoctoral researcher at University of California Berkeley, USA, modeling and implementing scalable IoT networks within the OpenWSN project. He got his PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (2013) from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato, and both an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (2007) and a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering (2004) from Politecnico di Bari, Italy. He is associate editor of Wiley Internet Technology Letters, and has served as technical program committee in many conferences on networking.

Prof. Florin Udrea - Univ. of Cambridge

Bio: Florin Udrea has done pioneering and truly innovative research, which has been translated into direct engineering application in the areas of electronic devices for electrical power/energy control and gas sensing.  The founder of three companies, he has commercialised his research as well as collaborating with leading industrial companies internationally to develop products based on his research. He holds 70 patents and was recognised through the award of the RAEng Silver Medal in 2012. He is also a world-leading academic with more than 350 publications. He has just taken up the position of global editor for power semiconductor devices of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, the preeminent international journal in electronic devices.

Dr. Daniel Popa - Univ. of Cambridge

Bio: Daniel Popa is an Affiliated Lecturer and a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. He holds a BSc in Electronics and a MSc in Optoelectronics from the University or Rome Tor Vergata, and a PhD in Photonics and Nanotechnology from the University of Cambridge. Daniel demonstrated the first graphene laser and developed many state-of-the-art lasers based on graphene and carbon nanotubes. He uses nanometerials to design and develop photonics and optoelectronics devices for healthcare technologies, among others.