Professore Ordinario – Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione | Tel.: 050 2217602 – Email: sergio.saponara@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"4026","unipi-persone-nome":"Sergio","unipi-persone-cognome":"Saponara","unipi-persone-email":"sergio.saponara@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Prof. Sergio Saponara, 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 Inter-university-Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium. He is Full Professor of Electronics.
\r\nHe has been Vicepresident 2017-2019 and President 2020-2024 of the Bachelor and Master Degrees in Electronic Engineering at University of Pisa.
\r\nHe teaches courses of Vehicular Electronics, Electronic Systems for Robotics, HW and Embedded Security, Design of IoT Circuits and Systems at Pisa University for the Master degrees in Electronic Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Robotics and Automation Engineering. He also teaches Electronics at the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno.
\r\nHe is also the promoter and responsible for the summer school of the University of Pisa \"Enabling technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT)\".
\r\nHe was Vicepresident 2017-2022 and President 2022-2025 of UCAR (interUniversity Center for Automotive research).
\r\nHe is member of 2 IEEE standardization activities, of the Technical committees TC-7 and TC-19 of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, of the IEEE Special Interest group in IoT and of the World Forum on IoT.
\r\nHe served in the organization of more than 100 international conferences, most from IEEE and SPIE and as guest editor of special issues in several ISI journals. 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 at IEEE and SPIE conferences. He is also Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of 4 international peer-reviewed journals: the \"Journal of Real-Time Image Processing\" from Springer, the \"Electronics Letters\" from IEE\/IEEE, the journal \"Designs\" from MDPI, the \"Journal of Wireless Communications\" from SISPRESS. He is member of the Engineering PhD school \"Leonardo da Vinci\" at Pisa University. His research interests include embedded computing engineering, integrated electronics and applied electronic systems, sensor\/actuator interfacing and DSP for new measurement systems.
\r\nHe co-authored more than 400 international scientific publications indixed in Scopus and more than 20 patents.
\r\nHe got best paper awards at PRIME 2007, StreamingDay2010, GE2007 and the 2nd prize at the Element-14 Medical design award 2011. An abstract of his PhD thesis was awarded at the 1st EDAA PhD forum in Munich, 2003, and he received the \"premio giovane ricercatore\" from the Senato Accademico-University of Pisa. He got also the \"Outstanding Reviewer Award\" from Elsevier in 2015. In the VQR all his submitted scientific works have been evaluated with the grade \"excellent\".
\r\nHis technology transfer activity includes collaborations with STMicroelectronics, Renesas, Selex, Ericsson, Piaggio, Magna, AustriaMicroSystems, CAEN, Sitael, Intecs, Rico, Flyby.
\r\nHe is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Ingeniars srl a spin-off company of the University of Pisa, which has been in the top 10 Tuscany start-up companies awarded at the StartCup2014 competition and has been awarded in Horizon 2020 within the SME Instruments program.
\r\nHe served as project manager or WP manager in several national and international research projects (PRIN, FIRB, POR-CREO, ESA, INFN, FP6, FP7, Horizon ..).
\r\nHe is associate member of the Italian National Institutes for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) and for Informatics (CINI). He joined the NEWCOM and HIPEAC European networks of excellence.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"Sempre possibile dal Luned\u00ec al Venerd\u00ec previo appuntamento\nda fissare via e-mail (sergio.saponara@iet.unipi.it)\no telefono (0502217602, centralino 0502217511)","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria della Informazione, Universit\u00e0 di Pisa, via G. Caruso 16, 56122","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"Sempre possibile dal Luned\u00ec al Venerd\u00ec previo appuntamento\nda fissare via e-mail (sergio.saponara@iet.unipi.it)\no telefono (0502217602, centralino 0502217511)","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2217602","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"","unipi-persone-cariche":"