PD Dr. Michele Magno

PD Dr.  Michele Magno

PD Dr. Michele Magno

Privatdozent/in at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

ETH Zürich

Zentr. f. projektbasiertes Lernen

ETF F 109

Sternwartstrasse 7

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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RESEARCH INTERESTS AND BRIEF SUMMARY

I received my degree in electronic engineering in February 2004 at the University of Bologna. In 2005 I moved to CINECA, a non-profit research consortium, made up of 67 Italian universities, and 3 Institutions in high-performance scientific computing group. I started the PhD scholarship in 2007 at the University of Bologna. In May 2010 I received my Ph.D. in computer science, electronics telecommunication engineering at the University of Bologna, where I joined the group of Ambient Intelligence and wireless sensor networks of the Department of Electronics, Information, Systems (DEIS). My thesis is entitled "Reconfigurable low power systems for distributed monitoring." Currently, I am working as a post-doctorate at the ETH Zurich in the Integrated System Laboratory working on low power embedded systems and wireless sensor networks at system and application level. The most important themes of my research are: sensor systems, wearable devices, embedded devices and wireless sensor networks (WSN), biomedical sensors, power management techniques, signal processing of embedded devices and sensors, sensor network in different application scenarios. In these fields, I worked actively both at hardware and software level, in particular, special emphasis on sensors systems and wireless communication in several applications such as video surveillance, sensor monitoring, and control, health care, smart homes, and building monitoring and automation. My research has led to interest in the design of intelligent devices, tracking systems, multi-sensors, video surveillance, multimodal and ultra-low power radio triggers and wake-ups, machine learning and classification algorithms, low power sensor data processing, low power radio communication and special emphasis on energy efficiency of the nodes and the network, using harvesters, such as solar panels, wind turbine, kinetic and thermal harvesters, and using the fuel cells to hydrogen to feed the nodes and recharging of batteries. As the main scientist for the University of Bologna, University College Cork and ETH Zurich, I followed several projects, most of them EU projects, for instance, FP7 GENESI project where he had to build a smart power unit with hybrid sources to supply wireless sensor nodes for structural health monitoring. I have collaborated with several universities and research center such as University College Cork, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, University of Trento (Italy), University of Rennes (France) Sophia Antipolis (France) University of British Columbia (Canada), Imperial College London (UK), Politecnico di Torino, Tyndall Institute in Cork, and others. I have followed several under graduated and PhD students up to more than 10 in 2015 and 2016 at ETH Zurich. I am currently teaching “P&S Microcontroller” course and lecturer of ETH for the course 227-0155-00L  Machine Learning on Microcontrollers. I severed as TPC and special session chair in many ACM/IEEE conferences such as IEEE/ACM DATE, IEEE SAS, IEEE WiMob, reviewer for several Journal and Transactions such as IEEE Transaction Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transaction Industrial Informatics, IEEE Sensors, and associate editor for Distributed Wireless Sensor Network Journal. I am a senior member IEEE and I have published more than 150 papers in international publications provided with ISBN or ISSN, including 30 of the scientific transactions and journals. H-index = 35 (Google scholar October 2020).

Direct link to google scholar https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=ytj7UUcAAAAJ&hl=en

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Permanent Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich

 

·       Since January 2020 Head of the D-ITET center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) at ETH Zurich Switzerland. More info can be found pbl.ee.ethz.ch

·       From 2013 to 2019 postdoc and senior researcher at D-ITET ETH Zurich Switzerland in the Integrated System Laboratory.

·   Visiting Full Professor at MID University of Sweden since 2021.

·       2017: Associate professorship Scientific Qualification obtained For Electronic Engineering from Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Italy

·   2018: Associate professorship Scientific Qualification obtained For Computer Science from the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Ita

·   Visiting professor at Enssat Lannion, University of France (France) From June 2015.

·    Visiting assistant professor at Sophia Antipolis University of Nice (France) From November 2014-April 2015.

·    Postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork (Ireland) from May 2012-November 2013.

·    Visiting researcher at Tyndall Institute (Ireland) from May 2011-August 2011.

·   Postdoctoral researcher at University of Bologna (Italy) from May 2010-May 2012

·   May 2010 Ph.D. in computer science, electronics telecommunication engineering at the University of Bologna (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Luca Benini. Subject: Reconfigurable low-power systems for distributed monitoring

·  Jun. 2008 – Jan. 2009: Visiting PhD student at ETH

·  Jan 2007 – May. 2010: PhD student at the University of Bologna

·  Jan 2006 – Dec 2006: Research Fellow in Electronic Engineer at the University of Bologna Micrel Lab Group

·  April 2005-December 2005. Student grant on “FPGA for supercomputer” at Cineca, Supercomputer center in Bologna.

·  February 2004-March 2005. Software engineer to CMP spa. In Bologna

·  February 10st 2004: Master degree in electronic at University of Bologna. Dissertation title: “Monitoring of mobile terminals in a wireless network with the SNMP” under the supervision of Prof. Tullio Salmon Cinotti.

·    Jul. 2003 – Feb. 2004: Training at ARCES (Advanced Research Centre on Electronic Systems) Bologna

 

 

·         Main International projects

o    The principal investigator of ER-SEE. An international project with University Zagreb and the University of Skopje founded by SNF (Switzerland) on energy efficient wireless sensors network April 2015-March 2018.

o    April 2010 to 2013 Principal Scientist for DEIS in GENESI (Green sEnsor NEtworks for Structural monItoring) project (http://genesi.di.uniroma1.it/), Funded under EU SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

o    Jan 2013 to Dec 2013 Scientific Investigator in From WSN Testbeds to CPS Testbeds an EIT-ICT Labs  project.

o    April 2010  to March 2013, Scientific Investigator in END - Models, Solutions, Methods and Tools for Energy-Aware Design an Eniac JU project. http://www.eniac-end.org/

o    March 2010 to March 2013 in CHIRON (Integrated Healthcare Approach For Home, Mobile And Clinical Environmental) an Artemis Sub-program ASP2 project. http://www.chiron-project.eu/.

o    January 2009 to March 2011 Principal scientist for DEIS in SCALOPES (SCalable LOw Power Embedded platformS) project (http://www.scalopes.eu/), Funded under ARTEMIS (Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems) sub-programme. duration: 2 years; 

·         Main National projects

o    April 2014 - 2016 - Brainsee. Founded by Armasuisse (Switzerland) on embedded brain-inspired algorithm for long-range video surveillance.

o    June 2013 – August 2013. iBAN-MED. IRISH National project on Intelligent Body Area network Medical Applications

o    Jan 07 – Dec 09  Principal scientist for DEIS in PRIN National project on Low-power wireless video sensors: hardware-software platform design .Founded under Italian government duration:2 years.

o    Dec 05 – Dec 06  Scientist for DEIS in the SUMMIT project (Servizi Ubiquitari MultiMediali per l'Innovazione tecnologica e Telematica) Ubiquitous Multimedia Services for Innovation Technology and Telemetric, co-funded by Regione Emilia Romagna; duration: 2 years;

·         Activities in IEEE/ACM Professional societies

o    Organizer of workshops, special sessions such as “Advanced power management for sensor clouds” in IEEE IWASI (2013, 2015). “Sensor clouds: Power management and Low power design” (2015) and “Ultra Low power sensing for the Internet of Things” (2016) in IEEE SAS.

o    General chair of 7th EAI International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software.

o    Associate or guest editor for: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Hindawi (2014-2015), Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks Mdpi (2015), Journal of Sensors Mdpi (2016-2017), IEEE Sensors Journal (2016-2017)

o    Program Committee Member in a number of international conferences and symposia (ACM/IEEE DATE, IEEE SAS, IEEE IWASI, and IEEE WiMob, among others).

·         Teaching activities Courses and Seminars

o    Teacher at Master in cities science 2015-2106 in Madrid for the Energy in smart cities lectures.

o    Teacher for “P&S Programming Microcontrollers” at ETH Zurich for the autumn semester and Spring semester since 2015 and currently

o    Teaching assistant and Tutor for master and PhD students in Digital circuits and systems at Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineer at ETH Zurich, Academic Years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

o    Teaching assistant and Tutor for students in Embedded System Co-Design at University College Cork, Academic Years 2012-2013. 

o    Lab assistant in Embedded System Co-Design at University of Trento, Academic Year 2010-2011.

o    Seminars and tutoring for student projects in the course of Hardware-Software Design Methodologies at University of Bologna since Academic Since Year 2006 to 2016.

o    Supervisor of several master and bachelor thesis in electrical and computer engineering since 2006 to the present. Main topics: Bluetooth localization, Zigbee/Bluetooth based wireless sensor network, PIR based surveillances, ambient intelligence (AmI) applications, Energy harvester systems.

·         Industrial activities:

o   Active collaboration with many companies during the European project and university partnership, among others STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, Disney Research, IBM reserach.

o    From 2012 to the present Consultant and Advisor for Verde LED, Cork, Ireland. To design and develop a smart light wireless control system (www.verdeled.com)

o    2016 to the present Consultant for Medicon Ingegneria, Bologna, Italy To design and develop wireless monitor system for logistic application (http://www.mediconingegneria.it/)

o    Founder and advisor of SHelmet (http://www.shelmet.it/). A spin-off of University of Bologna. (Will be officially lunched early in2017)

Membership

Since Membership
2017 Member ACM
2016 Senior Member IEEE
2013 Member IEEE

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AWARDS

Industrial Awards & Patents

  • March 2018: ETH Spark Award 2018 as the best five inventions of 2017 for “Zero-Power Receiver for Touch Communication and Touch Sensing.”
  • September 2017: EU Patent submission: “Zero-Power Receiver for Touch Communication and Touch Sensing.”
  • November 2015: Top 4 Team of Texas Instruments Innovation Contest 2015“Energy Neutral Multisensors Wearable Bracelet
  • November 2016: Award for the First team for “Shelmet: a self-sustaining smart helmet for motor-bikers” at Texas Instruments Contest 2016, Automotive. Role: Advisor Professor.
  • November 2016: Award “Capitani dell’anno 2016, Automotive” Modena, 12-11-2016- Shelmet: a self-sustaining smart helmet for motor-bikers.

Academic Awards

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  • December 2011: Best Paper Awards: International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2011;

  • November 2014: Award for short visiting professorship with Labex Network at Sophia Antipolis France.

  • November 2015: Best Paper Award at the Embedded Software and MicroElectronics "Green your electronics: less power, more value" eSame 2015 Conference for his paper and presentation "An Autonomous Multi-Sensor Wearable Device with Human Body Harvesting."
  • March 2015: Best Poster Award: Murphy, F.E.; Popovici, E.; Whelan, P.; Magno, M., "Development of an heterogeneous wireless sensor network for instrumentation and analysis of beehives," in Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2015 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.346-351, 11-14 May 2015
  • September 2016: Best paper award at SPIE's Remote Sensing and Security+Defence International Symposia held 24-29 September 2016 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, for the paper Cavigelli, L., Bernath, D., Magno, M. and Benini, L., Computationally efficient target classification in multispectral image data with Deep Neural Networks.
  • April 2016: Best Poster Award at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks 2016 for his paper and poster presentation "KinetiSee-A Perpetual Wearable Camera Acquisition System with a Kinetic Harvester”.
  • June 2017: Best paper award at The 7th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces for the paper:  Michele Magno, Michael Pritz, Philipp Mayer, Luca Benini “DeepEmote: Towards multi-layer neural networks in a low power wearable multi-sensors bracelet" presented on 15th of June 2017.
  • September 2017: Best paper award at IEEE NGCAS 2017 for the paper: Magno, Michele, et al. "Energy Efficient System for Tactile Data Decoding Using an Ultra-Low Power Parallel Platform." CAS (NGCAS), 2017 New Generation of. IEEE
  • March 2018: Best Paper Award at IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2018 for the paper, Mayer, Philipp, Michele Magno, and Luca Benini. "Combining microbial fuel cell and ultra-low power event-driven audio detector for zero-power sensing in underwater monitoring." In Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), 2018 IEEE, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.
  • April 2018: Best poster award at the 5th  Workshop in Devices, Materials, and Structures for Energy Harvesting and Storage from the Institute of Physics (IoP)for "Toward Zero-power Smart Sensing Leveraging Micro-Energy Harvesting".
  • April 2018: Best Poster Award at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks 2018, for the paper: Strebel, Raphael, and Michele Magno. "Zero-power receiver for touch communication and touch sensing."
  • July 2018: Finalist with 2 designs on 3 selected on the design contest ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design for “A Micro-Watt Smart Audio Detector for Zero-Power Always-On Sensing” and  “ZeroTouch: Zero-Power Smart Receiver for Touch Communication and Sensing for Internet of Thing and Wearable Applications”
  • September 2018: Excellent paper award at the 20th IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Service for the paper. Xiaying Wang, Michele Magno, Lukas Cavigelli; Mufti Mahmud; Claudia Cecchetta, Stefano Vassanelli and Luca Benini. "Rat Cortical Layers Classification extracting Evoked Local Field Potential Images"

 

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