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Curriculum vitae of

Piero Zappi

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Position: Post doctoral researcher at System Energy Efficiency Lab (university of

California

San Diego, UCSD)

Affiliation: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

University of California San Diego

9500 Gilman Dr. #0404, 92093, La Jolla, CA

Phone: +1-858-***-****

E-mail: ******@****.***

2 PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Date of birth: October 18, 1980

Citizenship: Italian

Marital Status: not married, no children

Home address: 3357 Lebon Dr. Apt. 201, 92122, San Diego, CA

Personal e-mail: **********@******.**

Visa status: J1

Sex: Male3 LANGUAGES

Italian: mother tongue

English: fluent

German: basic4 RESEARCH INTERESTS AND BRIEF SUMMARY

Since January 2010 I am a post doctoral researcher at University of California San Diego

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Currently I'm part of the System Energy and Efficiency Lab (SEE Lab) at UCSD under the

supervision of professor Tajana imunic Rosing. Within this group my research focuses on

distributed collaborative systems for air quality monitoring (Citisense Project,

http://seelab.ucsd.edu/health/overview.shtml), context dependent resource management in

mobile systems and applications and distributed techniques for data mining in wireless

sensor networks. From January 2009 until December 2009 I was a full collaborator within

the Ambient Intelligence group at Micrel Lab, University of Bologna, where I was involved

in the research on wireless sensor networks as enabling technology for Context

Recognition and human-computer interaction. In particular special emphasis was been

placed in context recognition through redundant and dynamic networks. My research

interests included smart object design, tangible interfaces, Pyroelectric InfraRed (PIR)

based surveillance and multimodal surveillance. I received a Ph.D. degree from University

of Bologna in May 2009. I received a master degree in electrical and computer science in

2005.

Visit http://seelab.ucsd.edu/~piero/index.shtml for an overview of activities where I m

involved.

5 EDUCATION

? May the 25th 2009: Ph.D. degree in electronic at University of Bologna (Italy) under

the supervision of prof. Luca Benini. Subject: wireless sensor networks and data

fusion techniques

? March 21st 2005: Master degree in electronic at University of Bologna. Dissertation

title: Progetto di un sensore audio di presenza wireless a basso consumo di

potenza (english translation: Design of a wireless, low-power, presence detection

audio sensor). Final grade 110/110 cum laude.

? November 13th 2002: Degree in electronic at university of Bologna. Dissertation title:

Progetto di un moltiplicatore per FPGA (english translation: Design of a multiplier for

an FPGA). Final grade: 106/110.

? August 1997-January 1998: Semester at Lecanto High School, Citrus county

(Florida, U.S.A.).

6 ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Jan. 2010 Present Post doctoral researcher at UCSD

Mar. 2005 Dec. 2009 Teaching & Research Assistant at the Department of Electronics,

Computer Science and Systems (DEIS University of Bologna),

Italy

Jun. 2007 Dec. 2007 Visitor at ETH Zurich for the project Automatic methodology for

robust and scalable context recognition in dynamically changing

and heterogeneous sensor networks .

Oct. 2004 Nov. 2004 Training at ARCES (Advanced Research Centre on Electronic

Systems) Bologna

7 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

7.1 Reviewer

? ACHI Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction (ACHI 2006).

? CHI 2008 International Conference on Human Factors.

? Pervasive Health 2008, 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing

Technologies for Healthcare 2008.

? Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and

Communications (PerCom 2006).

? ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (Journal).

? European Conference on Smart Sensing & Context (Euro SSC 2009).

? TMC, Transaction on Mobile computing.

7.2 NSF projects

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January 2011present. Principal scientist for SEE Lab in the Citisense (Adaptive

Services for Community-Driven Behavioral and Environmental Monitoring to Induce

Change) project. NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Grant CNS-0932403, with additional

support from the NIH and a gift from Qualcomm. Project funding: $1,499,098.00.

7.3 CNS projects

? August 2011 present. Principal Investigator Context in the Loop: Context Aware

Management of Collaborative Mobile Systems and Applications project. Duration: 2

years. Project funding: $78,000.

7.4 Italian projects

? Nov 04 Nov 06 Principal scientist for DEIS in the LAICA project (Laboratorio di

Ambient Intelligence per una Cittr Amica Ambient Intelligence Laboratory for a

Friendly City), co-funded by Regione Emilia Romagna; duration: 2 years; partners

involved: Reggio Emilia Municipalitr, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,

University of Parma, WTI, Regulus, AGACTEL, OT Consulting, Sirti. Project Cost :

2.076.827,11 Project Funding: 731,724.13.

May 2008- Jun 09 Scientist in IT4CAD - Interactive Technologies for Innovative

Subdivision-supported Computer Aided Design Systems project funded as a

Strategic Project of the University of Bologna (Progetto strategico di Ateneo). Project

start: July 2007 Project duration: 2 years; Project cost: 150.000 Euro Project

Funding: 75,000.

? Since June 2008 scientist for Micrel Lab of the TANGerINE project

(http://www.tangerineproject.org/).

? Fall 2005, scientist for Micre Lab within the development of an enhanced video

surveillance network (in collaboration with Image Lab, University of Modena and

Reggio Emilia).

7.5 European projects

January 2009 to December 2010 Scientist for DEIS in SOFIA (Smart Objects For

Intelligent Applications) project (http://www.sofia-project.eu/), Funded under

ARTEMIS (Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and

Systems) sub-programme 3. Grant agreement no.:100017. Start date: January 01

2009. Duration: 3 years. Project Cost: 36,540,109.00. Project founding:

15,063,579.20.

? January 2009 to present Scientist for DEIS in Smiling (Self Mobility Improvement in

the elderly by counteracting falls) project (http://www.smilingproject.eu/), funded

under 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme). FP7-ICT-2007-1 Objective ICT-

2007.7.1: ICT and Ageing. Start date: 01/01/2008; Duration: 30 months. Project

Reference: 215493. Project Funding: 2,250,000.00.

7.6 Teaching activities Courses and Seminars

? Seminars at class in Introduction to embedded systems (cse237a) at University of

California San Diego Years 2010.

? Teaching assistant and Tutor for students in Digital Electronics at University of

Bologna, Academic Years 2007-2009.

? Lab assistant in Digital Electronics at University of Bologna, Academic Years 2007-

2009.

? Seminars and tutoring for student projects in the course of Hardware-Software

Design Methodologies at University of Bologna Academic Year 2005-2009.

? Supervisor of several master and bachelor thesis in electrical and computer

engineering since 2006. Main topics: Zigbee based wireless sensor network, PIR

based surveillances, ambient intelligence (AmI) applications, smart objects.

7.7 Research periods in other institutes

? Visiting researcher in the Wearable Computing group ETH Zurich (Jun-Dec 2007).

7.8 Technology transfer Activity and Consultancy

? Consultancy to Sirti SpA regarding integration of wireless sensor networks and

wireless standard protocols in their products.

7.9 Technical skills

? Electronic boards design: mixed analog and digital board design (EAGLE, OrCAD

tools)

? VLSI circuits synthesis (VHDL)

? Low level firmware development for low power microcontrollers. Specifically I've

developed firmware for the following platforms: Motorola HCS08 family MCU. Atmel

ATMEGA family MCU. Texas Instruments MSP430.

? Programming languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, assembler for RISC microcontrollers

? Operating systems: windows XP, windows 7, Linux

? Other software: Office, Matlab, CVI (National Instruments), WEKA (Waikato

Environment for Knowledge Analysis)

8 AWARDS

? 2005: Grant for best thesis on ICT business from CNA Bologna, Municipality of

Bologna.

? Best paper Award at EWSN08 - European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks

2008

9 TRAINING EXPERIENCES AND ADDITIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES

? Course Using Statistical Distributions in Research

? Course Dalle tecnologie alle applicazione dei sistemi RFID (English translation: from

technologies to application in RFID systems) organized by Fondazione Marconi

10 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

2012

11 REFERENCES

Main references:

? Professor Tajana imunic Rosing

CSE - University of California San Diego

9500 Gilman Dr., 92093 La Jolla, CA.

E-Mail: ******@****.***

Web page: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~trosing/

? Professor Luca Benini

DEIS University of Bologna

v.le Risorgimento 2, 40136 - Bologna, Italy

ph. +390********* mobile +393********* fax +390*********

E-Mail: ****.******@*****.**

Web page: http://www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/~benini

? Professor Gerhard Troster

Institut f. Elektronik (ETZ H 89)

Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zurich - SWITZERLAND

Ph.: +41-44-632-**-**

E-Mail: ********@***.**.****.**

Web page: http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/people/gerhartr

Other reference contacts:

? Professor Bruno Riccn

DEIS University of Bologna

E-Mail: *****.*****@*****.**

? Dr. Elisabetta Farella

DEIS University of Bologna

E-Mail: **********.*******@*****.****. Daniel Roggen

Institut f. Elektronik (ETZ H 93)

E-Mail: ******@***.**.****.**

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