Material-by-Design for Synthesis, Modeling, and Simulation of Innovative Systems and Devices

Giacomo Oliveri (ELEDIA, University of Trento)
September 30, 2016 — 10:30 — "Salle du conseil du L2S"

Abstract

Several new devices and architectures have been proposed in the last decade to exploit the unique features of innovative artificially- engineered materials (such as metamaterials, nanomaterials, biomaterials) with important applications in science and engineering. In such a framework, a new set of techniques belonging to the Material-by-Design (MbD) framework [1]-[5] have been recently introduced to synthesize innovative devices comprising task-oriented artificial materials. MbD is an instance of the System-by-Design paradigm [6][7] defined in short as “How to deal with complexity”. More specifically, MbD considers the problem of designing artificial- material enhanced-devices from a completely new perspective, that is “The application-oriented synthesis of advanced systems comprising artificial materials whose constituent properties are driven by the device functional requirements”. The aim of this seminar will be to review the fundamentals, features, and potentialities of the MbD paradigm, as well as to illustrate selected state-of-the-art applications of this design framework in sensing and communications scenarios.

Biography

Giacomo Oliveri received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an Tenure Track Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento), Professor at CentraleSupélec, member of the Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec, and member of the ELEDIA Research Center. He has been a visiting researcher at L2S, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2012, 2013, and 2015, and he has been an Invited Associate Professor at the University of Paris Sud, France, in 2014. In 2016, he has been awarded the “Jean d’Alembert” Scholarship by the IDEX Université Paris-Saclay. He is author/co-author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conferences, which have been cited above 2200 times, and his H-Index is 26 (source: Scopus). His research work is mainly focused on electromagnetic direct and inverse problems, system-by- design and metamaterials, compressive sensing techniques and applications to electromagnetics, and antenna array synthesis. Dr. Oliveri serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, of the Microwave Processing journal, and of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He is the Chair of the IEEE AP/ED/MTT North Italy Chapter.