Dr Giacomo OLIVERI (University of Trento - DISI )

Jeudi 29 septembre 2016 à 14h00
Amphi Holweck, Esc C
1ème etage

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

Dr Giacomo OLIVERI
University of Trento - DISI

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.

Acknowledgment
This work has been partially supported by the “Jean d’Alembert” Scholarship Program (2016-2017) funded by the
IDEX Université Paris Saclay (France).

References
[1] G. Oliveri, D. H. Werner, and A. Massa, "Reconfigurable electromagnetics through metamaterials - A review", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 1034-1056, Jul. 2015.
[2] G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Transformation electromagnetics miniaturization of sectoral and conical metamaterial-enhanced horn antennas,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1508 - 1513, Apr. 2016.
[3] G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, “Array miniaturization through QCTO-SI metamaterial radomes,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 3465-3476, Aug. 2015.
[4] G. Oliveri, E. T. Bekele, D. H. Werner, J. P. Turpin, and A. Massa, “Generalized QCTO for metamaterial-lens-coated conformal arrays”, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 62, no. 8, pp 4089-4095, Aug. 2014.
[5] G. Oliveri, L. Tenuti, E. Bekele, M. Carlin, and A. Massa, “An SbD-QCTO approach to the synthesis of isotropic metamaterial lenses,” IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 1783-1786, 2014.
[6] G. Oliveri, F. Viani, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, “Synthesis of multi-layer WAIM coatings for planar phased arrays within the system-by-design framework,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 2482-2496, Jun.2015.
[7] A. Massa, G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, and F. Viani, "System-by-Design : a new paradigm for handling design complexity," 8th European Conference on Antennas Propag. (EuCAP 2014), The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 1180-1183, Apr. 6-11, 2014.

Short Bio
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.