Cecilia Metra

Cecilia Metra is IEEE Director-Elect, Divison VIII, 2024 (IEEE Director, Division VIII, 2025-2026) candidate

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SHORT CURRICULUM

Cecilia Metra is a full Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she has worked since 1991, and from which she received the Laurea Degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in electronic engineering and computer science. She has been Deputy President of the School of Engineering at the University of Bologna and in 2002, she was visiting faculty consultant for Intel Corporation. She is part of the Italian National Research Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing (September 2022-present) and the Italian Research Project on Security and Rights In the CyberSpace – SERICS (January 2023-present).

She is 2022 and 2023 IEEE Director/Division V Delegate, a candidate for 2024 IEEE Director-Elect/Division VIII Delegate-Elect (2025-2026 IEEE Director/Division VIII Delegate), and she was the 2019 President of the IEEE Computer Society.

She is Co-Chair of the “IEEE Metaverse” Initiative of the IEEE Future Directions, and a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee - EPPC (2020-2023), the IEEE Conferences Committee (2021-2024), the IEEE Award Committee (2022-present), the IEEE Smart Village Governing Board (2020-present), the IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award Committee (2022-present), the IEEE AdHoc Committee on Innovative Funding Models (2023), and the IEEE AdHoc Committee on Coordinating IEEE’s Response to Multimedia-Based Digital Reality Technologies (2023). She was the Chair of the EPPC Working Group on ICT (2021-2022), Co-Chair of the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative Project on “Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems” (2019-2022), and a member of the IEEE Young Professionals Committee (2021-2022), the IEEE Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2022), the IEEE CS Task Force on Diversity & Inclusion (2020), the IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee (2020), the IEEE Systems Council Advisory Committee (2020-2022), the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Board of Governors (2015-2017), and the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013-2017).

She was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and of Computing Now, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers. She contributed to numerous IEEE international conferences/symposia/workshops as General/Program Chair/Co-Chair (18 times), technical program committee member (100+ times), and keynote/invited Speaker/Panelist (50+ times).

She has published extensively (200+ papers) on international peer reviewed journals/conference Proceedings on test and design for test of electronic circuits/systems, reliable, safe, secure and resilient electronic circuits/systems, trustworthy AI circuits/systems, fault tolerance, error correcting codes, secure communication protocols, photovoltaic and energy harvesting systems, emerging technologies. Her research has received public and private funding (e.g., from the EU, the Italian MISE and MIUR Ministries, and from companies such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Alstom Transport, etc.) at national and international levels.

She is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, and a member of the IEEE Honor Society IEEE-HKN. She has received two Meritorious Service Awards, eight Certificates of Appreciation and the Spirit of the Computer Society award from the IEEE Computer Society.

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DETAILED CURRICULUM

Education

• October 1995 – Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bologna (Italy)
• December 1990 - Laurea in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude), University of Bologna (Italy)

Record of Employment

• (December 27^th, 2015) – Confirmed Full Professor in Electronics at the University of Bologna
  
  
• (December 27^th, 2012) – Full Professor in Electronics at the University of Bologna

• (October 2010) –Qualification as Full Professor in Electronics
  
  
• (March 2005) – Associate Professor in Electronics at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, Italy
  
  
• (2020-present) – Affiliation with the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Alma AI) of the Univ. of Bologna
  
  
• (2005-present) – Affiliation with the Advanced Research Centre on Electronic Systems for Information and CommunicationTechnologies E. De Castro (ARCES) of the Univ. of Bologna
  
  
• (2003) - Qualification as Associate Professor in Electronics
  
  
• (October 2000- February 2005) – Assistant Professor in Electronics at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, Italy
  
  
• (August-December 2002) - Visiting Faculty Consultant for Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
  
  
• (June 2000) - Qualification as Assistant Professor in Electronics
  
  
• (September 1998 – September 2001) - Visiting Professor for the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
  
  
  

Specialization and Research Interests

• Design and Test; On-Line Test; Reliable, Safe and Error Resilient Systems; Diagnosis and Debug; Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes; Secure Communication Protocols; Fault Modelling; Photovoltaic Systems; Smart Lighting.

Activities in Professional Societies

• (2023) – Candidate for 2024 IEEE Director-Elect & Delegate-Elect, Division VIII (2025-2026 IEEE Director & Delegate, Division VIII)
  
  
• (2022-2023) – IEEE Director & Delegate, Division V
  
  
• (2021) – IEEE Director-Elect & Delegate-Elect, Division V - Elected with 3331 votes (56%)
  
  
• (2020) – Past-President of the IEEE Computer Society

• (2019) – President of the IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• (2023) – Co-Chair of the IEEE Metaverse Initiative of IEEE Future Directions
  
  
• (2021-2022, 2023-2024) – Member of the IEEE Conferences Committee
  
  
• (2022-2023, 2020-2021) – Member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee
  
  
• (2022) – Director Coordinator of the IEEE Diversity and Inclusion Committee
  
  
• (2022-2023) – Director Coordinator of the IEEE Awards Board
  
  
• (2023) Director Coordinator of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee
  
  
• (2022-2023) – Member of the IEEE Awards Board
  
  
• (2023) – Member of the IEEE AdHoc Committee on Innovative Funding Models
  
  
• (2023) – Member of the IEEE AdHoc Committee on Coordinating IEEE’s Response to Multimedia-Based Digital Reality

• (2022-present) – Member of the IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award Committee

• (2022) – Member of the IEEE Diversity and Inclusion Committee

• (2022) – Member of the IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Engagement
  
  
• (2021-2022) – Chair of the ICT Working Group of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee

• (2020-2022) – Member of the IEEE Smart Village Governing Board
  
  
• (2021-2022) – Member of the IEEE Young Professionals Committee

• (2020-2022) – Member of the IEEE Systems Council Advisory Committee

• (2019-2022) – Co-Chair of the Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems Project of the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative
  
  
• (2019-2022) – Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative

• (2019-2022) –Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of the Special Technical Community (STC) on Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems of the IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• (2018) – President-Elect of the IEEE Computer Society - Elected in October 2017 with 3587 votes (65%) from IEEE CS Members
  
  
• (2017) – Vice-President for Member and Geographic Activities of the IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• (2016-2017) – Member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors – Elected with 4249 votes from IEEE CS Members

• (2015-2017) – Member of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Board of Governors

• (2013-2015) – Member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors – Elected with 4315 votes from IEEE CS Members
  
  
• (2018-2021) – Member of the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Main Board
  
  
• (2014) – Vice-President for Technical and Conference Activities of the IEEE Computer Society

• (2023-2022, 2020-2017, 2015-2014) – Member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society

• (2023-2021, 2020-2018, 2015) Member of the Finance Committee of the IEEE CS
  
  
• (2015) – Secretary of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society

• (2015) – Member of the Executive Committee of the Technical and Conference Activities Board of the IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• (2020) – Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Nominations Committee
  
  
• (2018) Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee of the IEEE CS

• (2017) – Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L- Booth Award Committee

• (2020) – Member of the IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee
  
  
• (2020) – Member of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Diversity & Inclusion
  
  
• (2017-2015) – Member of the IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee
  
  
• (2018, 2016) – Member of the IEEE CS Nominations Committee
  
  
• (2012-2013) – 1^st Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC)
  
  
• (2013-2012) – Chair of the Test Technology Educational Program of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC)

• (2013) – Member of the Ad-Hoc Conferences Committee of the IEEE Computer Society

• (2020-2019, 2013) – Member of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee of the IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• (July 2012-2020) –Member of the IEEE Computer Society Manuscript Operations Committee
  
  
• (April 2011-2012) –Member of the IEEE Computer Society Press Operations Committee
  
  
• (2008-2013) – Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) Communications Group
  
  
• (2004-2007) – Vice Co-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) Communications Group

• (2004-2011) – Publicity Chair of the Test Technology Educational Program of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC)
  
  
• Member of the 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007 Technical Meeting Review Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC)
  
  

Editorial Activity

• (2018, 2020) Editor in Chief of the IEEE CS "Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing”

• (2013-2016) Editor in Chief of the IEEE CS "Computing Now”

• (2015-2021) Member of the Editorial Board of the “IEEE Design & Test”

• (2015-2021) Associate Editor of the Journal “Design Automation for Embedded Systems”, Springer

• (2014-2019) Associate Editor of the IEEE CS “Transactions on Computers”

• (2015-present) Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the IEEE “The Institute”

• (2007-2012) Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE CS “Transactions on Computers”

• (2004-2006) Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE CS “Transactions on Computers”

• (2004-present) Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”

• (2013-2014) Member of the Editorial Board of the "ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)”

• (2000 – 2009) Member of the Editorial Board of the "Microelectronics Journal", Elsevier Science

• (2007-present) Member of the Editorial Board of the "International Journal of Highly Reliable Electronic System Design”, International Sciences Press
  
  
•  Guest Editor/Co-Editor of the:
  
  

  - Monthly Theme on "Data Storage Reliability in the IoT Era", of “Computing Now”, August 2017

  - Special Issue on "High Dependability Systems" of the “IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing”, 2017 (together with M. Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italia)

  - Special Issue on "Emerging Trends and Design Paradigms for Memory Systems and Storage" of the “IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing”, 2017 (together with R. Aitken, ARM, USA)

  - Monthly Theme on "When Radiation Hits Electronic Circuits" [https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/archive/when-radiation-hits-electronic-circuits-july-2016], of “Computing Now”, July 2016

  - Monthly Theme on "Are Our Electronic Circuits Getting Older?" [https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/archive/are-our-electronic-circuits-getting-older-september-2015] of “Computing Now”, September 2015

  - Special Section on "Concurrent On-Line Testing and Error/Fault Resilience of Digital Systems" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMt2Mo5A3-A]of the “IEEE Transactions on Computers”, Third Section of 2010 (together with R. Galivanche (Intel Corporation (USA))

  - Monthly Theme on "Microprocessor Test and Reliability Challenges" [https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/archive/december2013] of “Computing Now”, December 2013

  - Special Issue on the “Innovations in Testing” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2012

  - Special Issue on “Testing” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2011

  - Special Issue on the “IEEE European Test Symposium 2009” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2010

  - Special Issue on the “IEEE European Test Symposium 2008” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2009

  - Special Section on “Computer-Aided Design for Emerging Technologies” of the “IEEE Design & Test”, July-August 2007 (together with F. Lombardi, Northeastern Univ, Boston (USA))

  - Special Issue on "Design and Test of Systems-On-a-Chip (SOC)" of the “IEEE Transactions on Computers”, May 2006 (together with JC Lo (University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island (USA) and F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, Boston (USA))

  - Special Issue on “On-Line Testing and Fault Tolerance” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2005 (together with R. Leveugle, Imag, Grenoble (France))

  - Special Issue on “Testing at MultiGbit/s Rates” of the “IEEE Design & Test”, July-August, 2004 (together with A. Ivanov (British Coloumbia University, Vancouver (CA)) and F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, Boston (USA))

  - Special Issue on “On-Line Testing” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2004 (together with M. Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

  - Special Issue on the “8th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, 2003 (together with M. Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

  - Special Issue on the “7th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop” of “The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, Vol. 18, n. 3, June 2002 (together with D. Nikolos (Univ. of Patras, Greece), J. P. Hayes (Univ. of Michigan, USA) and M. Nicolaidis (iRoC Techn., France))

  - Special Issue on “Defect-Oriented Diagnosis for Very Deep Submicron Systems” of the “IEEE Design & Test”, January-February, 2001 (together with F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, Boston, USA)

Awards

• IEEE Fellow (“for contributions to the on-line testing and fault-tolerant design of digital circuits and systems”), since January 2014
  
  
• IEEE Honor Society IEEE-HKN member, 2017
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, 2007
  
  
• IEEE Spirit of the Computer Society Award, 2020
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2020 (December)
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2020 (December)

• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2018
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2016 (December)
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2016 (November)
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2015
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, 2010
  
  
• IEEE Senior Member, 2010
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, 2006
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2004
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2000
  
  
• Best Paper Award of the 24^th IEEE Defect and Fault Tolerance Symposium in VLSI Systems 2009 (Chicago, Illinois, 7-9 Ottobre 2009), 2009, for the paper entitled: “Novel High Speed Robust Latch”, M. Omana, D. Rossi, C. Metra

Patents

• Co-inventor of “A Digital, Parallel, Clock Synchronizer"(provisional US Patent OTT Ref #2505-3193).

• Co-inventor (together with Kleihorst Richard, Nieuwland Andre, Van Dijk Victor, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) of “Data Communication Using Fault Tolerant Error Correcting Codes and Having Reduced Ground Bounce” (International Publication Number WO 2005/088465 A1, International Publication Date 22 September 2005).

Activities in IEEE Sponsored Conferences

• General Co-Chair of The IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference - COMPSAC 2021: Intelligent and Resilient Computing for a Collaborative World, Online, July 12-16, 2021
• General Co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE Technical Meeting on Reliable, Safe, Secure, and Time-Deterministic Intelligent Systems, Online, September 30 – October 1, 2020
• General Co-Chair of the 1st IEEE Computer Society Global Chapter Summit, Bologna (Italy), December 7, 2019
• General Co-Chair of the 2019 IEEE Technical Meeting on Reliable, Safe, Secure, and Time-Deterministic Intelligent Systems, Bologna (Italy), December 6, 2019
• General Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Maui (Hawai), April 23-25, 2012
• General Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Dana Point (California), May 2-5, 2011
• General Co-Chair of the 12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 10-12, Lake of Como (Italy), 2006
• General Co-Chair of The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFTS), Monterey (California, USA), October 3-5, 2005
• General Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 9-11, Giardini Naxos-Taormina (Italy), 2001
• General Co-Chair of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFTS), November 1-3, 1999, Albuquerque (New Mexico)
• Vice-General Co-Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Santa Cruz (California), April 18-21, 2010
• Vice-General Chair of the 13th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 9-11, Crete (Greece), 2007
• Program Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Santa Cruz (California), May 3-7, 2009
• Program Co-Chair of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Design and Test of Nano Devices, Circuits and Systems (NDCS), Boston (MA), September 29-30, 2008
• Program Co-Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), San Diego (California), 2008
• Program Co-Chair of the 11th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 6-8, Cote Azur (France), 2005
• Program Co-Chair of the 10th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 12-14, Madeira (Portugal), 2004
• Program Co-Chair of the 9th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 7-9, Kos (Greece), 2003
• Program Co-Chair of the 8th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 8-10, Isle of Bendor (France), 2002
• Program Co-Chair of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFTS), November 2-4, 1998, Austin (Texas)
• Vice-Program Chair of the 14th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 7-9, 2008, Rhodes (Greece)Vice-General Chair of the 13th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), July 9-11, Crete (Greece), 2007
• Vice-Program Chair of the 6th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 3-5, 2000, Maiorca (Spain)
• Vice-Program Co-Chair of the 5th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 5-7, 1999, Rhodes (Greece)
• Vice-Program Co-Chair of the 4th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 6-8, 1998, Capri (Italy)
• Past Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Berkeley (California), April 29 – May 2, 2013

• Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (2015-present)
• Member of the Steering Committee of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (2001-present)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the ACM Computing Frontiers Conference (2003-2012)
• Track Chair for Test of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2016, Dresden (Germany), March 14-18, 2016
• Track Chair for the PhD Forum of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2018, Dresden (Germany), 2018
• Track Chair for the PhD Forum of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2017, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2017
• Track Chair for Test of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2015, Grenoble (France), March 9-13, 2015
• Track Chair for Test and Reliability of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2014, Dresden (Germany), March 24-28, 2014
• Topic Coordinator for "Product Test” of the:
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2013, Anaheim (California), September 10-12, 2013
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2012, Anaheim (California), November 4-9, 2012
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2011, Anaheim (California), September 18-23, 2011
• Topic Coordinator for "On-Line Test” of the:
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2010, Austin (Texas), October 31- November 5, 2010
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2009, Austin (Texas), November 3-5, 2009
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2008, Santa Clara (California), October 28-30, 2008
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2007, Santa Clara (California), October 23-25, 2007
• Topic Coordinator for "On-Line Test", for "Fault Models” and for “Design For Availability” of the:
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2006, Santa Clara (California), October 22-27, 2006
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2005, Austin (Texas), 6-10 November, 2005
  • IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2004, Charlotte (NC), 26-28 October, 2004
• Topic Coordinator for "On-Line Test" and for "Fault Models” of the:
  • International Test Conference (ITC) 2003, Charlotte (NC), 30 September - 2 October, 2003
  • International Test Conference (ITC) 2002, Baltimore (MD), October 8-10, 2002
  • International Test Conference (ITC) 2001, Baltimore (MD), 30 October - 1 November, 2001
  • International Test Conference (ITC) 2000, Atlantic City (NJ), 3-5 October, 2000
• Program Committee Chair of The First International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID) 2009, Porto (Portugal), September 20-25, 2009
• Topic Chair/Co-Chair for:
  • "On-line test, fault tolerance, reliability, dependability and functional safety" of the European Test Symposium (ETS) in 2017 (Cyprus, Greece, May 22-25, 2017)
  • "On-line Testing and Reliability" of the European Test Symposium (ETS) in 2013 (Avignon, France, 27-31 May, 2013) and in 2012 (Annecy, France, May 28-June 1, 2012)
  • "On-line Testing and Fault Tolerance" of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference in 2013 (Grenoble, France, March 18-22, 2013) and in 2012 (Dresden, Germany, March 12-16, 2012)
  • "Testing" of the ACM/IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI) in 2010 (Providence, MA, May, 2010), in 2009 (Boston, MA, May 10-12, 2009) and in 2008 (Orlando, FL, May 4-6, 2008)
  • "On-line Testing, Fault Tolerance and Reliability" of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference in 2011 (Grenoble, France, March 14-18, 2011), in 2007 (Nice, France, April 16-20, 2007), in 2006 (Munich, Germany, March 6-10, 2006) and in 2005 (Munich, Germany, March 7-11, 2005)
  • "Field-Oriented Test and On-line Testing" of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), February 16-20, 2004
  • "On-line Testing and Fault Tolerance" of the European Test Symposium (ETS) in 2007 (Freiburg Germany, May 20-24, 2007) and in 2006 (Southampton, England, May 21-25, 2006)
• European Liaison of the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD), Anaheim, California, 8-9 November, 2012
• Publication Chair of the:
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Trondheim (Norway), May 23-27, 2011
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Prague (Czech Republic), May 25-28, 2010
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Seville (Spain), May 24-28, 2009
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Lake Maggiore (Italy), May 25-29, 2008
• Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Palm Springs (CA), May 1-5, 2005
• Special Sessions Co-Chair of the:
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (CA), May 6 – 10, 2007
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (CA), April 30 – May 4, 2006
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the following International Conferences:
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), Montevideo (Uruguay), September 5-8, 2022
  • IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT), Online, October 6-8, 2021
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), Punta del Este (Uruguay), October 27-29, 2021
  • The 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Frascati (Italy), October 19 – 21, 2020
  • 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS’19), Novi Sad (Serbia), April 22-24, 2020
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), Jatiúca (Brazil), 30th March - 2nd April 2020
  • 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS’19), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), April 24-26, 2019
  • The 27th Asian Test Symposium (ATS18), Hefei (China), October 15-18, 2018
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), São Paulo (Brazil), March 13 – 15, 2018
  • 21st IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS’18), Budapest (Hungary), April 25-27, 2018
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Bremen (Germany), May 28-June 1, 2018
  • IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design 2018 (IOLTS 2018), Platja d’Aro, (Spain), July 2-4, 2018
  • The 26th Asian Test Symposium (ATS17), Taipei (Taiwan), November 27-30, 2017
  • IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design 2017 (IOLTS 2017), Thessaloniki (Greece), July 3-5, 2017
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), Bogota (Colombia), March 13 – 15, 2017
  • IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT), Cambridge (UK), October 30 – November 1, 2017
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Cyprus (Greece), May 22-25, 2017
  • The 25th Asian Test Symposium (ATS16), Hiroshima (Japan), November 21-24, 2016
  • IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design 2016 (IOLTS 2016), Sant Feliu de Guixols (Spain), July 4-6, 2016
  • IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT), Storrs (Connecticut, USA), September 19-20, 2016
  • IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), Foz do Iguacu (Brasil), 6-8 Aprile, 2016
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 23-27 May, 2016
  • IEEE 2nd World Forum on Internet of Things, December 14-16, 2015, Milan (Italy)
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Amherst (Massachusetts), October 12-14, 2015
  • 21st IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, July 6-8, 2015, Halkidiki (Greece)
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 25-29 May, 2015
  • 20th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Platja d'Aro (Spain), July 7-9, 2014
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Amsterdam, (The Netherlands), October 1-3, 2014
  • The 23rd Asian Test Symposium (ATS11), Hangzhou, Zhejiang (China), November 16-19, 2014
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Paderborn (Germany), 26-30 May, 2014
  • The 22nd Asian Test Symposium (ATS11), Yilan (Taiwan), Nov. 18-21, 2013
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, New York (USA), October 2-4, 2013
  • 19th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Chania (Greece), July 8-10, 2013
  • The 21st Asian Test Symposium (ATS11), Niigata (Japan), Nov. 19-22, 2012
  • 18th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Sitges (Spain), June 27-29, 2012
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Austin (Texas), October, 2012
  • 17th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Athens (Greece), July 13-15, 2011
  • The 20th Asian Test Symposium (ATS11), New Delhi (India), November 21-23, 2011
  • The 21th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Chania (Greece), September 5 - 7, 2011
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Vancouver (Canada), October 3-5, 2011
  • 1st Workshop on System Validation and Computer Architecture, San José (California), June 4, 2011
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Kyoto (Japan), October 6-8, 2010
  • The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID) 2010, Nice (France), 22-27 August, 2010
  • 4th Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing, Chicago (IL, USA), June 28, 2010
  • The 16th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium 2010 (IOLTS 2010), Corfù (Greece), July 5-7, 2010
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Prague (Czech Republic), May 25-28, 2010
  • The 20th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Milan (Italy), August 31 – September 2, 2010
  • IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT’10), Bangalore (India), January 7-8, 2010
  • 6h IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD10), Dresden (Germany), March 12, 2010
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Dresden (Germany), March 8-12, 2010
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Chicago (IL, USA), October 7-9, 2009
  • IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing (MTDT), Hsinchu (Taiwan), 31 August – 2 September, 2009
  • 15th Annual IEEE International Mixed-Signals, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop (IMS3TW), Scottsdale (Arizona), June 10-12, 2009
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Seville (Spain), May 24-28, 2009
  • 15th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Sesimbra-Lisbon (Portugal), June 24-27, 2009
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Nice (France), April 20-24, 2009
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Cambridge-Boston (USA), October 1-3, 2008
  • 14th Annual IEEE International Mixed-Signals, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop (IMS3TW), Vancouver (Canada), June 18-20, 2008
  • 5th IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD07), San Diego (California), April 30 – May 1, 2008
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), March 10-14, 2008
  • European Test Symposium (ETS), Lake Maggiore (Italy), May 25-29, 2008
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Rome (Italy), September 26-28, 2007
  • “IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nano Scale Architectures (Nanoarch’07)", San Josè (California), October 21-22, 2007
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (California), May 6—10, 2007
  • 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Design for Manufacturability and Yield (DFM&Y 2007), Santa Clara (CA), October 25-26, 2007
  • 4th IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD07), Freiburg (Germany), May 23 – 24, 2007
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Design for Manufacturability & Yield (DFM&Y 2006), Santa Clara (California), October 26 – 27, 2006
  • 43rd Design Automation Conference, San Francisco (California), July 24 – 28, 2006
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (California), April 30 – May 4, 2006
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Washington DC (USA), October 4-6, 2006
  • 4th IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Berkeley, California, USA, May 4-5, 2006
  • 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD06), Santa Clara (California), October 27 – 28, 2006
  • IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing (MTDT), Tapei (Taiwan), August 3 – 5, 2005
  • 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD05), Austin (Texas), November 10 – 11, 2005
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Palm Springs (California), May 1 – 4, 2005
  • IEEE European Test Symposium, Talin (Estonia), May 22 – 25, 2005
  • The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Cannes (France), 10 – 13 October, 2004
  • IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing (MTDT), San Josè (CA), August 9 – 10, 2004
  • IEEE European Test Symposium, Ajaccio, Corsica (France), May 23 – 26, 2004
  • 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Palm Springs, California, USA, May 4-5, 2005
  • 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 28-29, 2004
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Silicon Debug and Diagnosis (SDD04), Ajaccio, Corsica (France), May 26 – 27, 2004
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Napa (California), April 26 – 29, 2004
  • ACM Computing Frontiers Conference, Ischia (Italy), April 14-16, 2004
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Napa (California), April 27 - May 1, 2003
  • IEEE European Test Workshop, Maastricht (The Netherlands), May 25 - 28, 2003
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), March 3-7, 2003
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), November, 2003
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 2-3, 2003
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Vancouver (British Columbia), November 6-8, 2002
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), March 4-8, 2002
  • IEEE International Workshop on Yield Optimization & Test, Baltimore (MD, USA), November 1-2, 2001
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), March 13-16, 2001
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, San Francisco (CA), October 24-26, 2001
  • IEEE International Workshop on Yield Optimization & Test, Atlantic City (NJ), October5-6, 2000
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Mt. Fuji (Japan), October 25-27, 2000
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), March 27-30, 2000
  • 3rd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Crete (Greece), July 7-9, 1997
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Paris (France), October 20-22, 1997
  • 2nd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Saint-Jean de-Luz, Biarritz (France), July 8-10, 1996
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston, Massachussets (USA), November 6-8, 1996
  • The IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Lafayette (Louisiana), November 13-15, 1995
• Co-organizer of the following panels:
  • “Reliability Issues for Very Deep Submicron ICs", of the 8th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 8-10, 2002, Isle of Bendor (France). The panel has been co-organized also with the international magazine IEEE Design & Test
  • “Fault-Tolerance: needs and perspectives", of the IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, November 2-4, 1998, Austin (Texas). The panel has been co-organized also with the international magazine IEEE Design & Test
  • “Yield, Testing and Reliability Issues for Very Deep Submicron Chips", of the IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, July 9-11, 2001, Giardini Naxos-Taormina (Italy). The panel has been co-organized also with the international magazine IEEE Design & Test
• Organizer of the following Special Sessions:
  • “Fault Tolerance Techniques for Memory Reliability Improvement” for the IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing (MTDT), San Josè (CA), August 9 – 10, 2004
  • “Robust Design Techniques for Soft Errors” for the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6 – 8, 2005
  • “Memory Reliability Challenges” for the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Lake of Como (Italy), July 10 – 12, 2006
  • “Test and Reliability Challenges for Innovative Systems” for the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6 – 8, 2006
• Session Chair-Moderator for the following International Conferences:
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Vancouver (Canada), October 3-5, 2011
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Grenoble (France), March 14-18, 2011
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Kyoto (Japan), October 6-8, 2010
  • IEEE East-West Design & Test International Symposium, Moscow (Russia), September 18-21, 2009
  • “International Test Conference”, Santa Clara (California, USA), October 28-30, 2008 (session 12)
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Rome (Italy), September 26-28, 2007, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (CA), May 6 – 10, 2007
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Nice (France), April 16-20, 2007
  • 43rd Design Automation Conference, San Francisco (California), July 24 – 28, 2006
  • 12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, July 10-12, Lake of Como (Italy), 2006
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Berkeley (California), April 30 – May 4, 2006
  • 9th IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS’06), Prague (Czech Republic), April 18 – 21, 2006
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Palm Springs (California), May 1 – 4, 2005
  • IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design, and Testing (MTDT), San Josè (CA), August 9 – 10, 2004
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), March 6-11, 2005
  • The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Cannes (France), 10 – 13 October, 2004
  • 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 28-29, 2004
  • IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Napa (California), April 26 – 29, 2004
  • ACM Computing Frontiers Conference, Ischia (Italy), April 14-16, 2004
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), November, 2003
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Infrastructure IP (I-IP), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 2-3, 2003
  • IEEE European Test Workshop, Maastricht (The Netherlands), May 25 - 28, 2003
  • IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing, Isle of Bendor (France), July 10-12, 2002
  • 8th IEEE International Mixed Signal Testing Workshop, Montreux (Switzerland), June 18-21, 2002
  • IEEE European Test Workshop, Corfù (Greece), May 26-29, 2002
  • 20th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Monterey (California), April 28 - May 1, 2002
  • 4th International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems (MPCS), Ischia (Italy), April 10-12, 2002
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), March 13-16, 2001
  • 18th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Montreal (Canada), April 30 - May 4, 2000
  • IEEE International Workshop on Yield Optimization & Test, Atlantic City (NJ), October 5-6, 2000
  • 6th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Maiorca (Spain), July 3-5, 2000
  • 5th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Rhodes (Greece), July 5-7, 1999 16th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Monterey (California), April 26-30, 1998 3rd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Crete (Greece), July 7-9, 1997
  • The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Paris (France), October 20-22, 1997

Invited Talks/Tutorials/Lessons/Panels

• Invited Speaker at IEEE Region 10 webinar series (R10Talk), August 5, 2023, Online, with the talk entitled “Reliability and Safety Challenges for the AI Hardware to Enable the Future Metaverse"
• Invited Distinguished Lecturer Talk for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, July 31, 2023, Online, with the talk entitled “Hardware Reliability and Safety Challenges to Enable a Reliable and Safe AI"
• Invited Talk as Division V Director, at the IEEE Region 8 Meeting, March 24-26, 2023
• Invited Keynote (Visionary Talk) at theACM/IEEE 60^th Design Automation Conference - DAC, July 9-13, 2023, San Francisco (California), with the talk entitled “AI Hardware Reliability and Safety Challenges to Enable the Future Metaverse"
• Invited Speaker at theIEEE Advanced School on Nanotechnology-based Computing, October 21-22, 2022 Crete (Greece), with the talk entitled “Dependability Risks of Nanotechnology Based-Computing for Intelligent Systems"
• Invited Speaker at the22^ndAnnual Conference of the National Association of Risk Managers and Corporate Insurance Managers - ANRA, Milan (Italy), October 24-25, 2022, with the talk entitled “Sfide per l’Affidabilità, la Safety e la Sicurezza di Sistemi Autonomi guidati da Intelligenza Artificiale"
• Invited Panelist at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society”, panel entitled “In celebration of SSIT’s 50th Anniversary”, 10-12 November, 2022 (virtual)
• Invited Speaker at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2022, September 16-18, 2022, Hyderabad (India), with the talk entitled “Safety, Reliability and Security Risks for Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems"
• Invited Panelist at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - Industry Day, panel entitled “Technological and Regulatory Challenges for AI in Europe", July 20, 2022, Padova (Italy)
• Invited Panelist at the Conference COMPSAC 2022, plenary panel entitled “Reliability of Autonomous Machines", online, June 27^th – July 1st, 2022
• Invited Panelist at the Conference COMPSAC 2022, plenary panel entitled “Technology Predictions", online, June 27^th – July 1st, 2022
• Invited Talk entitled “Circuit Level Challenges and Solutions for Safe and Reliable Intelligent Systems” at the ACM Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0 (RSS2) 2022, held online, February 28, 2022
• Keynote Speaker at The 15th IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2021), held online, October 13-15, 2021, with the talk entitled “Safety, Reliability and Resiliency Challenges for Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems"
• Keynote Speaker at the 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Control Automation and Power Engineering (RDCAPE) 2021, October 7-8, 2021, held online, with the talk entitled “Safety, Reliability and Resiliency Challenges to Enable a Smarter World"
• Keynote Speaker at the 31st International Conference on Field- Programmable Logic and Applications 2021, held online, September 1-3, 2021, with the talk entitled “Safety, Reliability and Resiliency Challenges to Enable Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems"
• Keynote Speaker at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC) 2021, held online, July 12-16, 2021, with the talk entitled “Safety and Resiliency Challenges for Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems"
• Invited Talk entitled “Safety and Reliability Challenges for Dependable Highly Autonomous Systems” at IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT) 2021, held online, July 9-11, 2021
• Invited Panel Moderator at the Clust-ER Mech, Emilia Romagna (Italy) Workshop "La Guida Autonoma nella Auto e nei Veicoli per l’Agricoltura”, held online, March 22, 2021
• Invited Panelist at the Conference COMPSAC 2021, plenary panel entitled “President’s Panel", online, July 12-16, 2021
• Invited Panelist at the Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology (SWITCH) Conference panel entitled “Technology Predictions for Times of Pandemics", held online, December 7-11, 2020
• Keynote Speaker at the Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (APPLEPIES) 2020, held online, November 19-20, 2020, with the talk entitled “Safety and Reliability Challenges to Enable a Smarter World"
• Invited Talk entitled “Safety and Reliability Challenges to Enable Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems” at IEEE CASS webinars, hosted by Rio Grande do Sul Chapter, held online, 6 November, 2020
• Keynote Speaker at the Women in Engineering Global Summit 2020, held online, November 5, 2020, with the talk entitled “Reliability and Safety Challenges for Highly Autonomous Intelligent Systems"
• Invited Talk held online, 17 October 2020, at the “International Symposium on Frontiers Trends on Information and Computer Technology in Society” 2020, IEEE Indonesia Computer Society Chapter, with the talk entitled “Being Part of the IEEE Computer Society in the Pandemic Emergency Year"
• Invited Talk at the “Emergence of IEEE CS and Field of Computing in the past 7 Decades Curtain Raiser Meet at R10”, held online, 10 October 2020, with the talk entitled “Emergence of IEEE Computer Society in past 7 decades"
• Invited Panelist at the Conference COMPSAC 2020 plenary panel entitled “To Patent or Not to Patent?", held Online, July 13-17, 2020
• Distinguished Speaker at the Women in Technology Forum of the China National Computer Congress (CNCC) 2019, Suzhou (China), October 17-19, 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability and Safety Challenges for Autonomous Intelligent Systems with Intelligence at the Edge"
• Invited Welcome Message at the China National Computer Congress (CNCC), Suzhou (China), October 17-19, 2019
• Keynote Speaker at the World Congress on Information Technology 2019, Yerevan (Armenia), October 6-9, 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability, Safety, Security and Time Determinism Challenges for Autonomous Intelligent Systems of a Smarter World"
• Invited Lecturer at the Yerevan State University, Yerevan (Armenia), October 9, 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability and Safety Challenges in the IoT Era"
• Invited Talk at Synopsys, Yerevan (Armenia), October 9, 2019, with the talk entitled “Addressed Challenges in Test, Reliability, Security and Energy Efficiency of Electronic Systems"
• Invited Talk at Intel, Beijing (China), October 15, 2019, with the talk entitled “Addressed Challenges in Test and Reliability of High Performance Electronic Systems"
• Invited Panelist at the 5^th International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry 2019 plenary panel entitled “Be an entrepreneur in hot technological areas", with the presentation entitled “Hardware Information Processing Systems”, Florence (Italy), 9-12 Settembre, 2019
• Invited Congress Opening Remarks at the IEEE World Congress on Services 2019, Milan (Italy), 8-13 July, 2019
• Invited Panelist at the Conference COMPSAC 2019 plenary panel entitled “President’s Panel: IEEE Computer Society Volunteerism & Membership – Serving Humanity with Technology", Milwaukee (USA), July 15-19, 2019
• Invited Panelist at the IEEE World Congress on Services 2019 plenary panel entitled “2020 Tech Predictions", Milan (Italy), 8-13 July, 2019
• Invited Talk at the Artemis Technology Conference 2019, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 16-17 April 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability Challenges for Secure and Safe Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT Devices"
• Keynote Speaker at the IPSJ's 81st National Congress, Fukuoka (Japan), 14-16 March 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability Challenges for High Performance Microprocessors in the IoT Era"
• Invited Talk at Yokohama Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Yokohama (Japan), 13 March 2019, with the talk entitled “Reliability Challenges for Microprocessors and Memories in the IoT Era"
• Keynote Speaker at the IEEE Fruct Conference 2018, Bologna (Italy), November 14, 2018, with the talk entitled “Reliability Challenges for High Performance Electronic Systems in the Internet of Things Era"
• Invited Talk at Alibaba, Hangzhou (China), September 5, 2018, with the talk entitled: “Reliability Challenges for Electronic Circuits and Systems in the Internet of Things Era”
• Invited Talk at the Baidu ABC Summit, Shanghai (China), September 4, 2018, with the talk entitled:“Reliability Challenges for Electronic Systems in the Big Data Era"
• Invited Talk at Baidu R&D Center, Shanghai (China), September 4, 2018, with the talk entitled: “Electronics’ Reliability Challenges in the Internet of Things Era”
• Invited Talk at the International Symposium on Future of Computer Technology 2018 (ISFCT2018), July 24, 2018, Tokyo (Japan), with the talk entitled:“Reliability Challenges for High Performance Electronics in the Internet of Things Era"
• Invited Lecture at the International PhD School, University Federico II, Naples (Italy), June 19, 2018, with the lecture entitled: “Reliability Challenges for VLSI Circuits and Systems"
• Invited Talk at the SPS IPC Drivers 2017, May 24, 2017, Parma (Italy), with the talk entitled:“Technologies for Big Data and Internet of Things"
• Keynote Speaker with the talk entitles “Test and Reliability Challenges for High Performance, Nanotechnology Circuits and Systems", at the IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS), Košice (Slovakia), April 20-22, 2016
• Distinguished Lecturer with the talk entitled “Test and Reliability Challenges for High Performance Circuits and Systems", at the 48^th Annual Meeting of the Associazione Gruppo Italiano di Elettronica, Brescia (Italy),June 22-24, 2016
• Invited Talk “Test and Reliability Challenges for Advanced Circuits and Systems", at the University of Padova (Italy), December 11, 2015
• Invited Talk “Test and Reliability Challenges of New Generation Circuits and Systems", at the University of Padova (Italy), December 5, 2014
• Invited Talk “Test and Reliability Challenges for High Performance Circuits and Systems", at the University of Padova (Italy), January 23, 2014
• Invited Talk Speaker at the 3^rd IEEE Workshop on Design for Reliability and Variability (DRV), Dana Point (California), May 4-5, 2011 with the talk entitled:"Process Parameter and Clock Variations: How Can We Deal with Them in High Performance Microprocessors”
• Invited Talk “Design for Testability and Reliability of High Performance Circuits and Systems", at the University of Padova (Italy), January 24, 2013
• Invited Talk at Hewlett-Packard,Palo Alto (CA, USA), December 7th, 2012, with the talk entitled: “Fault-Tolerance for Highly Reliable Circuits and Systems”
• Invited Talk at 3SUN,Catania (Italy), September 8th, 2011, with the talk entitled: “Faults and Fault-Tolerance for Photovolatic Systems"
• Invited Talk at STMicroelectronics,Catania (Italy), September 8th, 2011, with the talk entitled: “Fault and Degradation Modelling for Nanoscale ICs”
• Invited Talk “Test and Reliability Challenges for General Purpose Nanoscale ICs", at the University of Padova (Italy), December 1, 2011
• Invited Talk Speaker at the IEEE East-West Design & Test International Symposium, St Petersburg (Russia), September 17-20, 2010 with the talk entitled: "Secure Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”
• Invited Talk entitled: “On-Die Measurement of Process Parameter Variations and Clock Jitter”, at the “Elevator Talks” Session of the IEEE International Test Conference 2010, Austin (TX, USA), October 31- November 5, 2010
• Invited Talk Speaker at the Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing 2009 (WDSN09),Estoril (Portugal), June 29, 2009, with the talk entitled: "Trading Off Dependability and Cost for Nanoscale High Performance Microprocessors: The Clock Distribution Problem”
• Invited Talk Speaker at the IEEE East-West Design & Test International Symposium, Moscow (Russia), September 18-21, 2009 with the talk entitled: "Dependable High Performance Microprocessors: The Clock Distribution Challenge”
• Embedded Tutorial Speaker at the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptative Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), San Francisco(California), July 29 – August 1, 2009, with the tutorial entitled: "On-Die Calibration and Self-Correcting Approaches for Reliable Clock Distribution Networks of High Performance Microprocessors" (together with Simon Tam and TM Mak, Intel Corporation)
• Invited Talk entitled "Rad-Hard: Accurate Liner Model for SET Critical Charge Estimation", at ST Microelectronics, Catania (Italy), September 14th, 2010
• Invited Talk entitled: “Low-Cost Control-Oriented Concurrent Error Detection Schemes for
  RAS, Debug and Test”, at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara (CA), February 27th, 2009
• Invited Talk entitled “Design and Test Challenges for General Purpose Nanoscale Systems", at the University of Padova (Italy), November 25, 2009
• Invited Talk entitled: “Soft Errors: Risks and Remedies for Next Generation ICs”, at CISCO, San Josè (CA), February 25^th, 2009
• Invited Talk “IC Design and Testing Challenges with Technology Scaling", at the University of Padova (Italy), November 13, 2008
• Invited Talk entitled: “New Low Cost Approach for High Performance Microprocessor Concurrent Error Detection”, at the “Elevator Talks” Session of the IEEE International Test Conference 2008, Santa Clara (CA, USA), October 29^th, 2008
• Invited Talk entitled “Fault Tolerance and Hardening Approaches to Protect Logic Against Clock Faults and Soft Errors”,at IBM, Poughkeepsie-New York (USA), September 26^th, 2008
• Invited Talk entitled "Scaling of Microelectronic Technology: Testing and Design For Testability Challenges for Digital Electronic Circuits ", at the University of Padova (Italy), November 26, 2007
• Invited Talk entitled "Testing e Design For Testability di Circuiti Elettronici Digitali", at the University of Padova (Italy), November 30, 2006
• Invited Talk entitled "Collaudo e Progettazione Orientata al Collaudo di Sistemi Elettronici Digitali", at the University of Padova (Italy), December 1st, 2005
• Invited Talk entitled: “Potentials of Fault Tolerance Paradigms for Scaled ICs’ Faults”, at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara (CA), August 6th, 2004
• Invited Tutorial on “Testing and Fault Tolerance", at STMicroelectronics (Switzerland), April 6th, 2004
• Invited Talk entitled: “Testing Clock Faults: Those That We Might Have Missed”, at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara (CA),December 8th, 2004
• Invited Talk entitled "Can High Performance Be Achieved Without Reliability Risks ?" at Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven (The Netherlands), March 17th, 2003
• Invited Talk entitled “Will Soft Errors Become a Problem and How Could We Solve It ?", Intel Corporation (MA), November 6th, 2003
• Invited Talk entitled "Faults on the Clock Distribution Network and Their Impact on Testing" at Artisan Components, Sunny Valley (CA, USA), November 21st, 2002
• Invited Talk entitled "Hardware Solutions for the Concurrent Detection of Transient, Crosstalk and Delay Faults in VDSM ICs" at Agere Systems, Murray Hill (NJ, USA), May 17, 2001
• Invited Talk entitled "On-Line Testing for Logic Soft Errors: A Better Way", at the Intel Test Research Symposium, Intel, Santa Clara (CA), September 29th, 2000
• Invited Tutorial entitled "Hardware Fault-Tolerance: New Perspectives for Very Deep Sub-Micron Circuits ?", at ST Microelectronics, Agrate (Milan, Italy), July 10th, 2000
• Invited Talk entitled "Soft Errors' On-Line Testing: A Low Cost Approach", at LogicVision, San Josè (CA), September 28th, 2000
• Invited Talk entitled "Concurrent Testing Techniques for Clock's Faults", at the Intel Research Symposium VLSI Test, Intel, Santa Clara (CA), April 24th, 1998
• Invited Talk entitled "Self-Checking Detectors for Faults Escaping Conventional Off-Line and On-Line Testing", at The Boeing Company, Seattle (USA), October 27, 1998
• Invited Lesson entitled "Checker Design", at the "European School on High Reliability Integrated Systems", Euroform, Bologna, February 9th, 1994
• Invited Lesson on "Reliability and Diagnostics", at the Corso di Perfezionamento Post-Laurea of the CEFRIEL, Politecnico of Milan,June 4-5, 2002
• Panelist for thepanel entitled: "Innovation & Cooperation in Europe",of the “14th European Manufacturing Test Conference (EMTC), Semicon Europa”, 9-11 October, 2012, Dresden (Germany), organized by R. Segers, ReSeCo (The Netherlands)
• Panelist for thepanel entitled: "How can defect-based test be made to work in a foundry world?", of the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, 7-9 July, 2003, Kos (Greece), organized by R. Aitken, Artisan Components (USA)
• Panelist for thepanel entitled: "Mainframe RAS on Desktops : Reality today or tomorrow", of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Rome (Italy), September 26-28, 2007, organized by Prashant D. Joshi, Intel

Research Contracts’ Responsibility and Scientific Collaborations

• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation,for researches on “Check the Checker Approaches for High Performance Microprocessors of Autonomous Systems”, May 2020 – April 2021
• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation,for researches on “Power Faults On-Line Detection and Reaction in Complex SoCs”, October 2018 - September 2019
• Responsible of the ”Luminare” Research Contract with Becar-Beghelli (Bologna) funded by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development, September 2017 - 2019
• Responsible of a Research Contract with Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Techniques to Control PowerDroop/Activity Factor During Logic BIST”, November 2014-2015
• Responsible of a Research Contract with Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Techniques to Control PowerDroop/Activity Factor During Logic BIST”, November 2013-2014
• Responsible of a Research Contract with Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Techniques to Control PowerDroop/Activity Factor During Logic BIST”, November 2012-2013
• Responsible of a Research Contract with Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Techniques to Control PowerDroop/Activity Factor During Logic BIST”, November 2011-2012
• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA), for researches on “Low Cost Control Logic Concurrent Error Detection Schemes for RAS, Debug and Test”, May 2007- September 2009
• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Clock Fault Testing and DFT”, May 2006- April 2008
• Responsible for the Research Contract with Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, Oregon) entitled: ”Development of Optimal Error Correcting Codes for Caches”, January – September 2006
• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “DFT for Detection of Clock Distribution Faults”, January- December 2005
• Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “DFT for Detection of Clock Distribution Faults”, January- December 2004
• Recipient of an Equipment Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),2004
• Responsible for the Research Contract with STMicroelectronics entitled: ”Modelling, Analysis and Fault Tolerance of Interconnects Among Different Cores of Systems in Package”, January-December 2006
• Responsible for the Research Contract with STMicroelectronics entitled: ”Design and Testing Paradigms for Reliable Multiprocessor Systems”, 2004-2006
• Responsible of the Bologna Unit for a Research Contract funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) 2005-2006
• Responsible of the Bologna Unit for a 2004-2005 PRIN project funded by the Italian Ministry MIUR
• Responsible of the Bologna Unit for the European Project(n. IST-2001-38782) funded by the European Community within the Fifth Framework Programme entitled: “Fault Tolerance: Electrical Aspects”, coordinated by Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 2003-2004
• Responsible of the Bologna Unit for the Research Contract funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) entitled: “Definition and Development of Techniques for the Identification and Tolerance of Faults for the Design of Computing Systems Based on Programmable Logic Devices”, 2000-2002
• Responsible for the Research Contract with STMicroelectronics entitled: ”Design and Communication Paradigms for Reliable Automata Systems”, 2000-2003
• Responsible for the Research Contract with Alstom Transport entitled: “Controller of TFM Self-Checking Protocol Implemented by Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology”, 2001-2002
• Responsible for the Research Contract with Alstom Transport entitled: ”System for the Functional Verification of Electronic Control Systems of Railway Stations”, 2002-2003
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Institute of Astrophysics and Cosmic Physic of the Italian National Research Council (Milan, Italy)
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Northeastern University, Boston (MA, USA)
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Georgia Tech University, Atlanta (Georgia, USA)
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (BC, Canada)
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Linköpings University, Linköpings (Sweden)
• Responsible of Scientific Collaborations with the Stuttgart University, Stuttgart (Germany)
• Recipient of a Cash Grant (in lieu of equipment) from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),October 2008
• Responsible of a Research Contract with Becar-Beghelli (Bologna) on the :”Study of a Protocol for the Security of the Information Transmitted on a Proprietary Wireless Network”, funded by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development, November 2008 - October 2009
• Responsible of the Bologna Unit for a 2008-2009 PRIN project funded by the Italian Ministry MIUR
•  Recipient of a Research Grant from Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA),for researches on “Clock Fault Testing and DFT”, July 2008- June 2009

Grants

• Grant from the National Research Council (Italy) - 1997
• Post PhD Grant from the University of Bologna (Italy) - 1996
• Grant from the National Research Council (Italy) - 1995
• PhD Grant from the University of Bologna (Italy) - 1992
• Grant from the National Research Council (Italy) - November 1991
• Grant from SGS-Thomson (Milan, Italy) - May 1991

Courses Taught

• (Graduate) course "Reliable Data Processing and Storage for Intelligent Systems M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronic technologies for Big data and Internet of Things (E-BIT) of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
• (Graduate) course "Design for Reliable Data Processing and Storage M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronic technologies for Big data and Internet of Things (E-BIT) of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020
• (Graduate) course "Test, Diagnosis and Reliability M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering (A2E2) of the University of Bologna, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, University of Parma, University of Ferrara for the Academic Year 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
• Coordination for the (Graduate) course "Trends in Electronics M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronics and Communications Science Technology of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2016-2017, 2017-2018
• Coordination for the (Graduate) course "Industrial Trends in Electronics M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronics and Communications Science Technology of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
• (Graduate) course "High Reliability Electronics Systems M" for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
• Graduate) course “Design for Testability and Reliability of Integrated Circuits M” for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronics and Communications Science Technology of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017
• (Graduate) course “Lab of Reliable Systems Design M” for the Magistral Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021
• (Undergraduate) course "Electronics T" for the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 2009-2010, 2010-2011
• (Graduate) course "High Reliability Electronics Systems LS" for the Specialistic Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
• (Undergraduate) course "Electronics L" for the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
• (Undergraduate) course "Digital Electronics" for the Laurea Degree in Computer Science Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2005-2006
• (Undergraduate) course "Digital Electronics" for the Laurea Degree in Computer Science Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2004-2005
• (Undergraduate) course "Analog Electronics" for the Laurea Degree in Computer Science Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2003-2004
• (Graduate) course "Reliability and Diagnosis of Electronic Components and Circuits - Module I and Module II" for the Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2002-2003
• (Graduate) course "Reliability and Diagnosis of Electronic Components and Circuits - Module I" for the Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna for the Academic Year 2001-2002
• (Undergraduate) course "Applied Electronics" for the Degree in Engineering for the Environment and Resources of the University of Bologna for the Academic Years: 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
• (Undergraduate) course "Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems” for the degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Udine for the Academic Year 1995-1996

  Academic Responsibilities

• (From the A.A. 2018-19 to September 2023) Deputy-President of the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna
•  (From the A.A. 2016-2017 to the A.A. 2021-2022) Coordinator of the Master Curricula in Electronic Engineering of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna
•  (2020-present) Appointment as an expert within the Gruppo di Esperti della Valutazione (GEV) for the evaluation of the research quality (VQR) 2015-2019, Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR)
•  (2016-2018) Member of the Funding Committee of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna
•  (2015) Reviewer for the applications to the New Position of Full Professor for Computer Architecture at the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).
• (2015) External Reviewer for the Promotion Review Process for promotion to the rank of Full Professor in the area of Information Technology at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
• (2018) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Seconda Fascia of the University of Pavia (Italy).
• (2017) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Seconda Fascia of the University of Bologna (Italy).
• (2017) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Prima Fascia of the University of Parma (Italy).
• (2017) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Seconda Fascia of the University of Torino (Italy).
• (2016) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Seconda Fascia at the University of Bergamo (Italy).
• (2015) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Professor di Prima Fascia at the University of Trento (Italy).
• (2014) Member of the Evaluation Committee for the selective procedure for a position of Researcher RTdB at the University of Padova (Italy).
• (July 2013-current) President of the Commissione per la Valutazione of the curricula of the candidates for the role of Contract Professor and of the candidates for the role of Contract Tutor for the courses of the Laurea and Laurea Magistrale of the School of Engineering and Architecture – Bologna and Ravenna in “Electrical, Electronic and Measure Engineering”
• (June 2013 - December 2015) Member of the Census Commission of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna
•  (November 2017) External Member of the Examination Commission of the defence for the PhD in Technical Sciences (Dr. techn.) of the Technischen Universität, Wien (Austria) of Savulimedu Veeravalli, PhD thesis entitled: “Design of Custom ASIC for Radiation Experiments to Study Single Event Effects”
• (2015) Member of the Board of Examiners for the final oral defence of the Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato (Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Bari) – “Information and Communication Technologies” Area
• (2013-2014) Member of the Board of Experts of the Italian University and Research Ministry (MIUR)
•  (October 2009-2012) Member (Elected) of the Board of the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna
• (October 2009) External Member of the Examination Commission of the defence for the PhD in Technical Sciences (Dr. techn.) of the Technischen Universität, Wien (Austria) of Gottfried Fuchs, PhD thesis entitled: “Fault Tolerant Distributed Algorithms for On-Chip Tick Generation: Concepts, Implementations and Evaluations”
•  (October 2009) Memberof the Examination Commission for the admission to the PhD Course in "Information Technologies” of the University of Bologna, ARCES
• (2009-2010) Memberof the Examination Commission of the defence for the PhD in “Electronic, Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering” of the University of Bologna, DEIS
• (2009-2010)External Member of the Examination Commission of the defence for the PhD in “Information Engineering” of the University of Padova (Italy)
•  (2009-2012) Member of the Professor Committee for the PhD in "Information Technologies” of the University of Bologna, ARCES
• (2007) President of the Evaluation Commission n. II of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna for the National State Exams for Professional Engineering Qualification
• (2007-2012) Member (Elected) of the Funding Committee of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna
• (2003-2008) Responsible of student curricula for the Electronic Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna

Organization, Direction and Coordination of Research Groups

• Supervision of Assistant Professor Research Projects:
  
  • Supervisor of the Collaboration Project (on “Circuit Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and On-Line Error Detection and Correction”) with Jennifer Dworak, Assistant Professor, Brown University (USA), within the Career Development Award of NSF (USA)
  • Dr. Eng. Daniele Rossi, DEIS – Research Associate at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2005-2014 (funded/co-funded byindustrial research projects for which C. Metra is/has been responsible)
  • Dr. Eng. Martin Omaña, DEIS – Research Associate at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, since 2006 (funded/co-funded byindustrial research projects for which C. Metra is/has been responsible)
  
  

• Funding/Supervision of Research Associates:

  • Dr. Eng. Daniele Rossi, DEIS – Research Associate at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2005-2014 (funded/co-funded byindustrial research projects for which C. Metra is/has been responsible)
  • Dr. Eng. Martin Omaña, DEIS – Research Associate at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, since 2006 (funded/co-funded byindustrial research projects for which C. Metra is/has been responsible)
  
  

• Funding/Supervision of PhD Students:
  
  

           - Eng. Matteo Naldi, PhD student at University of Bologna, November 2022 – October 2025 (funded by STmicroelectronics)

           - Eng. Zahra Shirmohammadi, PhD student at University of Technology, Tehran (Iran), September 2016 – June 2017

            - Eng. Meryem Bouras, PhD student at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat (Marocco), September 2016 - June 2017

             - Eng. Vimalathithan Rathinasabapathy, PhD student at Anna University, Coimbatore (India), September 2010 – July 2011

             - Eng. Daniele Giaffreda, ARCES – University of Bologna, XXV cycle of the PhD Course, January 2010 – August 2011 (co-funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra is/has been responsible)

              - Eng. Daniele Rossi, DEIS – University of Bologna, XVII cycle of the PhD Course (PhD funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra was responsible)

             - Eng. Martin Omaña, DEIS - University of Bologna, XVII cycle of the PhD Course

             - Eng. Josè Manuel Cazeaux - DEIS - University of Bologna, XVIII cycle of the PhD Course

             - External reviewer for the Ph.D. in Computer Science of the University of Verona (Italy) of A. Fin, entitled “A Functional Testing Framework for Embedded Systems”

• Funding and/or Supervision of Research Grant Recipients/Collaborators:

             - Eng. Andrea Pagano, Research Grant Recipient at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2001, funded/co-funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra was responsible

             - Eng. Luca Schiano, Research Grant Recipient at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2001-2002, funded/co-funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra was responsible

              - Eng. Stefano Di Francescantonio, Research Grant Recipient at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2001 – 2003, funded/co-funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra was responsible

               - Dr. Ing. Martin Omaña, Research Collaborator at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, 2005, funded/co-funded by industrial research projects for which C. Metra was responsible

               - Eng. Óscar Ariño Zorilla (Spain), “Leonardo da Vinci Program” Grant Recipient at the Advanced Research Centre on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies E. De Castro (ARCES) of the Univ. of Bologna

                - Eng. Sara Cretì, Research Grant Recipient at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, September 2023 – August 2024, funded by Italian National Research Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing

• Supervisor for numerous thesis for the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna (Italy), some of which in collaboration with industries (e.g., Intel Corporation, Maserati, Toyota, Electrolux, ABB EVI, Alstom Transport, STMicroelectronics, Becar-Beghelli, etc.)

Publications Refereed International Journals/Books

1. C. Metra, B. Riccò, "Enhanced reliability evaluation for self-checking circuits", in IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp.776–778, 12 May, 1994, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Stevenage SG1 2AY (United Kingdom), 1994.
2. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Novel 1-out-of-n CMOS checker", in IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 30, No. 17, pp. 1398–1400, 18 August, 1994, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Stevenage SG1 2AY (United Kingdom), 1994.
3. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Design of CMOS self-checking sequential circuits with improved detectability of bridging faults", in IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 30, No. 23, pp. 1934–1936, 10 November, 1994, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Stevenage SG1 2AY (United Kingdom), 1994.
4. C. Metra, "Circuiti CMOS Self-Checking" (Tesi di Dottorato), Bologna, Febbraio 1994.
5. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, "Design of CMOS Checkers with Improved Testability of Bridging and Transistor Stuck-on Faults", in Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7–22, February 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 1995.
6. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Design of TSC CMOS Checkers for Any 1-out-of-n Code", in Journal of Microelectronic Systems Integration, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 109–120, 1995, Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (USA), 1995.
7. C. Metra, M. Favalli, "1-out-of-n dynamic CMOS checker", in IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 31, No. 23, 9 November, pp. 1999-2000, 1995, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Stevenage SG1 2AY (United Kingdom), 1995.
8. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "Sensing circuit for on-line detection of delay faults", in IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 130-133, March 1996, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 1996.
9. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "Design of low-power CMOS two-rail checkers", in Journal of Microelectronic Systems Integration, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 101–110, 1997, Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (USA), 1997.
10. C. Metra, M. Favalli,B. Riccò, "1-out-of-3 Code Checker with Single Output", in IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 16, 31 July, pp. 1373-1374, 1997, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Stevenage SG1 2AY (United Kingdom), 1997.
11. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, "On-Line Detection of Bridging and Delay Faults in Functional Blocks of CMOS Self-Checking Circuits", in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (CAD/ICAS), Vol. 16, No. 7, July, pp. 770-776, 1997, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 1997.
12. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "On-Line Self-Testing Voting and Detecting Schemes for TMR Systems", in Journal of Microelectronic Systems Integration, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 261–273, 1997, Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (USA), 1997.
13. C. Metra, "Design Technique for Embedded 1-out-of-3 Checkers", in Alta Frequenza Rivista di Elettronica, Vol. 9, No 2, pp. 68-70, 1997, Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana, Milano, 1997.
14. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, ”Concurrent Checking of Clock Signals’ Correctness”, in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. October - November, pp. 42–48, 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1998.
15. (Invited Paper) C. Metra, "Majority Logic", in Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 317--322, February 1999, Wiley & Sons., Inc., Publishers, New York (USA), 1999.
16. (Invited conference report) C. Metra, Neil Harrison, "DFT Symposium 98", in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. January-March, p. 5, 1999, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), e in The Newsletter of the Test Technology Technical Council of the IEEE Computer Society, Amissville, VA 937-7848 (USA), 1999.
17. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "Bus Crosstalk Fault Detection Capabilities of Error Detecting Codes for On-Line Testing", in IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 392–396, Settembre, 1999, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 1999.
18. (Invited conference report) C. Metra, Neil Harrison, "Defect and Fault Tolerance Symposium 1999", in Test Technology Newsletter - The Newsletter of the Test Technology Technical Council of the IEEE Computer Society, October-December, 1999, TTTC Office, 1474 Freeman Drive, Amissville, VA 20106 (USA), 1999.
19. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Signal Coding and CMOS Gates for Combinational Functional Blocks of Very Deep Submicron Self-checking Circuits", in VLSI Design, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23–34, OPA N.V., published by licence under the Gordon and Breach Science (ISSN: 1065-514X), Newark, NJ 07102, printed in Malaysia, 2000.
20. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Self-Checking Detection and Diagnosis Scheme for Transient, Delay and Crosstalk Faults Affecting Bus Lines", in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, No. 6, June 2000, pp. 560–574, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2000
21. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "Bridging Faults in Pipelined Circuits", in Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Vol. 16, Issue 6, December 2000, pp. 617—629, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2000.
22. C. Metra, J-C. Lo, "Intermediacy Prediction for High Speed Berger Code Checkers", in Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Vol. 16, Issue 6, December 2000, pp. 607–615, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2000.
23. Lombardi, C. Metra, "Defect-Oriented Diagnosis for Very Deep-Submicron Systems", in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. January-February, pp. 8–9, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2001.
24. C. Metra, B. Riccò, "Soluzioni Hardware per Sistemi Integrati Digitali ad Alta Sicurezza", in Alta Frequenza Rivista di Elettronica, Vol. 13, No 3, pp. 4-10, Maggio-Giugno 2001, Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana, Milano, 2001.
25. Favalli, C. Metra, "On-Line Testing Approach for Very Deep-Submicron ICs", in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. March-April, 2002, pp. 16—23, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
26. D. Nikolos, J. Hayes, M. Nicolaidis, C. Metra, "Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on the 7th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 18, n. 3, pp. 259--260, June 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2002.
27. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "Single output distributed two-rail checker with diagnosing capabilities for bus based self-checking architectures", in Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Vol. 18, n. 3, pp. 273-283, June 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2002.
28. C. Metra, M. Favalli, S. Di Francescantonio, B. Riccò, "On-Chip Clock Faults' Detector", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 18, n. 4, pp. 555-564, August, 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2002.
29. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, "Scan Flip-Flops with On-Line Testing Ability with respect to input Delay and Crosstalk Faults", in Microelectronics Journal,Vol. 34, n. 1, pp. 23-29, January, 2003, Elsevier Science (ISSN 0026-2692).
30. C. Metra, M. Sonza Reorda, "Guest Editorial”, in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 19, No. 5, October 2003, p. 499, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2003.
31. D. Rossi, C. Metra, "Error correcting strategy for high speed and density reliable flash memories", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 19, No. 5, October 2003, pp. 511-521, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2003.
32. L. Schiano, C. Metra, D. Marino, "Self-Checking Design, Implementation and Measurement of a Controller for Track-Side Railway Systems", in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1722—1728, December 2003, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2003.
33. C. Metra, L. Schiano, M. Favalli, "Concurrent Detection of Power Supply Noise", in IEEE Transactions on Reliability,Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 469—475, December 2003, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2003.
34. A. Ivanov, F. Lombardi, C. Metra, "Guest Editors’ Introduction: Advances in VLSI Testing at MultiGbps Rates”, in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. July-August, 2004, pp. 274—276, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
35. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, TM Mak, "Implications of Clock Distribution Faults and Issues with Screening Them During Manufacturing Testing", in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 53, No. 5, May 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
36. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, "Model for Transient Fault Susceptibility of Combinational Circuits", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 495—503, October 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA 02061 (USA), 2004.
37. M. Favalli, C. Metra, "TMR Voting in the Presence of Crosstalk Faults at the Voter Inputs", in IEEE Transactions on Reliability,Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 342—348, September 2004, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2004.
38. J. M. Cazeaux, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “Self-Checking Voter for High Speed TMR Systems", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 21, No. 4, August 2005, pp. 377—389, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2005, ISSN: 0923-8174.
39. D. Rossi, A. K. Neiuwland, A. Kotoch and C. Metra, “Exploiting ECC Redundancy To Minimize Crosstalk Impact”, in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 22, N. 1, January-February, 2005, pp. 59—70, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
40. D. Rossi, A. K. Nieuwland, A. Katoch, C. Metra, “New ECC for Crosstalk Impact Minimization”, in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, July-August, 2005, pp.340—348, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
41. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, "Low Cost and High Speed Embedded Two-Rail Code Checker", in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, Issue 2, February 2005, pp. 153—164, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
42. J. M. Cazeaux, M. Omaña, and C. Metra, “Novel On-Chip Circuit for Jitter Testing in High-speed PLLs”, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentations and Measurements, Vol. 54, Issue 5, October 2005, pp. 1779—1788, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2005.
43. C. Metra, D. Rossi, TM. Mak, “Won’t On-Chip Clock Calibration Guarantee Performance Boost and Product Quality?”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 56, No. 3, March, 2007, pp. 415-428, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
44. D. Rossi, J. M. Cazeaux, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, "Modeling Crosstalk Effects in CNT Bus Architectures", in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, No. 2, March, 2007, pp.133-145, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2007.
45. D. Rossi, A.K. Nieuwland, C. Metra, "Simultaneous Switching Noise: The Relation Between Bus Layout and Coding", in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 25, Issue 1, January-February 2008, pp.76-86, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2008.
46. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Latch Susceptibility to Transient Faults and New Hardening Approach”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 56, Issue 9, September 2007, pp. 1255-1268, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
47. Lombardi, C. Metra, "Guest Editors’ Introduction: The State of the Art in Nanoscale CAD", in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 24, July-August, pp. 302--303, 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
48. (Book Chapter) X. Ma, J. Huang, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, "Reversible and Testable Circuits for Molecular QCA Design", in “Emerging Nanotechnologies”, ISSN 0929-1296, ISBN 978-0-387-74746-0, pp. 157-202, Springer US, 2007.
49. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, "Checker No-Harm Alarms and Design Approaches to Tolerate Them", in The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 24, Issue 1-3, June 2008, pp. 93-103, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2008, ISSN: 0923-8174.
50. (Updated Invited Paper) C. Metra, "Majority Logic", in Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, pp. 1-8, April 2007, Wiley & Sons., Inc., Publishers, New York (USA), 2007, accessible online: eeee@wiley.com.
51. D. Rossi, A.K. Nieuwland, V.E.S. van Dijk, R.P. Kleihorst, C. Metra, "Power Consumption of Fault-Tolerant Busses", in IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 16, Issue 5, May 2008, pp. 542-553, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2008.
52. X. Ma, J. Huang, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, "Reversible Gates and Testability of One Dimensional Arrays of Molecular QCA", The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, Vol. 24, No. 1-3, pp. 297 – 311, June 2008, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2008, ISSN: 0923-8174.
53. D. Rossi, J. M. Cazeaux, M. Omana, C. Metra, A. Chatterjee, "Accurate Linear Model for SET Critical Charge Estimation", IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1161 – 1166, August 2009, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2009.
54. M. Favalli, C. Metra, " Testing resistive open and bridging faults through pulse propagation", IEEE Transactions on CAD, Vol. 28, Issue 6, June 2009, pp. 915 – 925, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ).
55. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Latch High Performance Robust Latches”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 11, pp.1455 – 1465, November 2010, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2010.
56. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM Mak, S. Tam, “Low-Cost Dynamic Compensation Scheme for Local Clocks of Next Generation High Performance Microprocessors”, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 19, No. 12, pp.2322 – 2325, December 2011, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, (NJ), 2011 (TVLSI-00007-2010)
57. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM Mak, S. Tam, “New Design For Testability Approach for Clock Fault Testing”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 16, No. 61, April 2012, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2012 (TC-2009-11-0558)
58. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, N. Bosio, C. Metra, “Low Cost NBTI Degradation Detection & Masking Approaches”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 496-509, March 2013, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2013
59. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, D. Giaffreda, R. Specchia, C. Metra, M. Marzencki, B. Kaminska, “Faults Affecting Energy Harvesting Circuits of Self-Powered Wireless Sensors and Their Possible Concurrent Detection”, in IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 21, Issue 12, December 2013, pp. 2286 – 2294, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2012
60. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, G. Garrammone, C. Metra, A. Jas, R, Galivanche, “Low Cost Concurrent Error Detection Strategy for the Control Logic of High Performance Microprocessors and Its Application to the Instruction Decoder”, The Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)”, Vol. 29, No. 3, June 2013, pp. 401 – 413, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2013
61. R. Vimalathithan, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, M.L.Valarmathi, “Polynomial Based Key Distribution Scheme for WPAN”, Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Special Edition of International Conference on Cryptology on Computer Security, Vol. 7(S), pp. 59-72, August 2013, ISSN: 1823-8343
62. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, J. M. Cazeaux, C. Metra, TM. Mak, “Clock Faults Induced Min and Max Delay Violations”, in Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Volume 30, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 111-123, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2014, Springer, Springer Boston/Norwell (USA), 2014
63. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, D. Giaffreda, C. Metra, TM Mak, A. Rahman, S. Tam, “Low-Cost On-Chip Clock Jitter Measurement Scheme”, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 23, Issue 3, March 2015, pp. 435 – 443, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2015.
64. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, A. Paccagnella, “Impact of Bias Temperature Instability on Soft Error Susceptibility”, in IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 23 , Issue 4, April 2015, pp. 743 – 751, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2015.
65. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, D. Giaffreda, C. Metra, “Modeling and Detection of Hot-Spot in Shaded Photovoltaic Cells”, IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 23, Issue 6, June 2015, pp. 1031-1039
66. R. Vimalathithan, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, M. L. Valarmathi, "Cryptanalysis of Simplified-AES Encrypted Communication", International Journal of Computer Science and Security (IJCSIS), Vol. 13 No. 10, October 2015, pp. 142 – 150.
67. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, E. Beniamino, C. Metra, C. Tirumurti, R. Galivanche, “Low-Cost and High-Reduction Approaches for Power Droop During Launch-On-Shift Scan-Based Logic BIST”, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 65, Issue 8, August 2016, pp. 2484-2484,
68. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, T. Edara, C. Metra, “Impact of Aging Phenomena on Latches’ Robustness”, IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, Issue 2, March 2016, pp. 129-136,
69. M. Omaña, M. Padovani, K. Veliu, C. Metra, J. Alt, R. Galivanche, “New Approaches for Power Binning of High Performance Microprocessors”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 66, Issue 7, July 2017, pp. 1159-1171.
70. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, F. Fuzzi, C. Metra, C. Tirumurti, R. Galivanche, “Scalable Approach for Power Droop Reduction During Scan-Based Logic BIST”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2017, pp. 238 - 246.
71. C. Metra, “Message from the Editor-in-Chief”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 6, Issue 1, January-March 2018, pp. 3-4.
72. M. Omaña, T. Edara, C. Metra, “Low-Cost Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Aging on Latches’ Robustness”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 6, Issue 4, June 2018, pp. 488-497.
73. C. Metra, “Message from the Editor-in-Chief”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 7, Issue: 1, January-March 2019, pp. 3 – 4.
74. M. Omaña, A. Fiore, M. Mongitore, C. Metra, “Fault Tolerant Inverters for Reliable Photovoltaic Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 27, Issue 1, January 2019, pp. 20-28.
75. M. Omaña, S. Goviandaraj, C. Metra, “Low-Cost Strategy for Bus Propagation Delay Reduction”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Vol. 35, Number 2, April 2019, pp. 253 – 260.
76. C. Metra, “The 2019 IEEE Computer Society: Targeting Member Satisfaction and Technical Excellence”, Computer, Vol. 52, Issue: 1, January 2019, pp. 4 – 6.
77. R. Aitken, C. Metra, “Special Section on Emerging Trends and Design Paradigms for Memory Systems and Storage”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 7, Issue: 3, July-September 2019, pp. 433 – 434.
78. C. Metra, “The 2019 IEEE Computer Society: Hit Target on Member Satisfaction and Technical Excellence”, Computer, Vol. 52, Issue: 12, December 2019, pp. 4 – 11.
79. C. Metra, “Message from the Editor-in-Chief”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 8, Issue: 4, October-December 2020, pp. 885 – 886.
80. M. Omaña, S. Bardhan, C. Metra, “Reliability Risks Due to Faults Affecting Selectors of ReRAMs and Possible Solutions”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 10, No. 4, October-December 2022, pp. 2086-2091.
81. M. Omaña, M. Grossi, C. Metra, “Early Fault Detection in Inverters of Photovoltaic Systems”, Microelectronic Reliability, Elsevier, Vol. 135, August 2022
82. M. Grossi, M. Bouras, M. Omaña, C. Metra, H. Berbia, “Low-Cost Strategy to Detect Faults Affecting Scrubbers in SRAM-Based FPGAs”, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, Vol. 89, 2022

Patents

1. Co-inventor of “A Digital, Parallel, Clock Synchronizer” (provisional US Patent OTT Ref #2505-3193).
2. Co-inventor (together with Kleihorst Richard, Nieuwland Andre, Van Dijk Victor, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) of “Data Communication Using Fault Tolerant Error Correcting Codes and Having Reduced Ground Bounce” (International Publication Number WO 2005/088465 A1, International Publication Date 22 September 2005).

   Refereed International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops

3. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, “CMOS Checkers with Testable Bridging and Transistor Stuck-on Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference, Baltimore (MD, USA), pp. 948–957, September 20-24, 1992, International Test Conference, 2000 L Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20036, 1992.
4. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, “Testing of Resistive Bridging Faults in CMOS Flip-Flop”, in IEEE Proceedings of European Test Conference, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), pp. 530–531, April 19-22, 1993, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1993.
5. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, “Design Rules for CMOS Self Checking Circuits with Parametric Faults in the Functional Block”, in IEEE Proceedings ofThe IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Venezia (Italy), pp. 271–278, October 27-29 October, 1993, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1993.
6. C. Metra, M. Favalli, P. Olivo, B. Riccò, “A Highly Testable 1-out-of-3 CMOS Checker”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Venezia (Italy), pp. 279–286, October 27-29, 1993, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1993.
7. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “CMOS Self Checking Circuits with Faulty Sequential Functional Blocks”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Montreal (Canada), pp. 133–141, October 17-19, 1994, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1994.
8. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Highly Testable and Compact 1-out-of-n CMOS Checkers”, in IEEE Proceedings ofThe IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Montreal (Canada), pp.142–150, October 17-19, 1994, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1994.
9. C. Metra, “MINIMAL POWER-DELAY PRODUCT CMOS BUFFER”, in Proceedings of Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation’94 (PATMOS’94), Barcellona (Spain), pp. 150–157, October 17-19, 1994, UPC, Barcellona (Spain), 1994.
10. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Highly Testable 1-out-of-n Dynamic CMOS Checker”, in Proceedings of 1^st IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Nice (France), pp.248–252, July 4-6, 1995, CNRS, Grenoble (Francia), 1995.
11. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Glitch Power Dissipation Model”, in Proceedings of Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation’95 (PATMOS’95), Oldenburg (Germany), pp. 175–189, October 4-6, 1995, bis, Oldenburg (Germania), 1995.
12. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “The effect of glitches on CMOS Buffer Optimization”, in Proceedings of Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation’95 (PATMOS’95), Oldenburg (Germany), pp. 202–212, October 4-6, 1995, bis, Oldenburg (Germania), 1995.
13. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Novel Berger Code Checker”, in IEEE CS Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems 1995, Lafayette (Louisiana), pp.287–295, November 13-15, 1995, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1995.
14. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Embedded Two-Rail Checkers with On-Line Testing Ability”, in IEEE Proceedings of 14^th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Princeton (New Jersey), pp.145–150, April 28 – May 1, 1996, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1996.
15. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Embedded 1-out-of-3 Checkers with On-Line Testing Ability”, in Proceedings of 2^nd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Saint-Jean de-Luz, Biarritz (France), pp. 136–141, July 8-10, 1996, CNRS, Grenoble (France), 1996.
16. C. Metra, Jien-Chung Lo, “Compact and High Speed Berger Code Checker”,in Proceedings of 2^nd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Saint-Jean de-Luz, Biarritz (France), pp. 144–149, July 8-10, 1996, CNRS, Grenoble (Francia), 1996.
17. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Tree Checkers for Applications with Low Power-Delay Requirements”,in IEEE Proceedings ofThe IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), pp. 213–220, November 6-8, 1996, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1996.
18. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Compact and Highly Testable Error Indicator for Self-Checking Circuits”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), pp. 204–212, November 6-8, 1996, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1996.
19. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Testing scheme for IC’s clock”, in IEEE Proceedings of The European Design & Test Conference and Exhibition 1997, Paris (France), pp. 445–449, March 17-20, 1997.
20. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, Highly Testable and Compact Single Output Comparator”, in IEEE Proceedings of 15^th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Monterey (California), pp. 210–215, April 27 – 30, 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1997.
21. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Novel Single Output –out-of-3 Code Checker”, in Proceedings of 3^rd IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Crete (Greece), pp. 228–232, July 7-9, 1997, Dept. of Computer Eng. & Informatics, Univ. of Patras, Greece, 1997.
22. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Self-Checking Detector for Simultaneous On-Line Test of Clock Signals”, in Proceedings of 3^rd EEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Crete (Greece), pp. 79–83, July 7-9, 1997, Dept. of Computer Eng. & Informatics, Univ. of Patras, Greece, 1997.
23. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Leakage power reduction for reactive computation”, in Proceedings of Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation’97 (PATMOS’97), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), pp. 57–66, September 8-10, 1997, Presses Universitaires de Louvain-la-Neuve, Luovain (Belgium), 1997.
24. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “On-Line Testing Scheme for Clocks’ Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference, Washington, D.C. (USA), pp. 587–596, November 1-6, 1997, International Test Conference, 2000 L Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20036, 1997.
25. C. Metra, M. Favalli,B. Riccò, “Compact and Low Power Self-Checking Voting Scheme”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Paris (France), pp. 137–145, October 20-22, 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1997.
26. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Low-level Error Recovery Mechanism for Self-Checking Sequential Circuits”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Paris (France), pp. 234–242, October 20-22, 1997, EEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1997.
27. Y-Y. Guo, J-C. Lo, Cecilia Metra, “Fast and Area-Time Efficient Berger Code Checkers”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Paris (France), pp.110–118, October 20-22, 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1997.
28. C. Metra, M. Favalli,B. Riccò, “Highly Testable and Compact 1-out-of-n Code Checker with Single Output”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Paris (France),pp. 981–982, February 23-26, 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1998.
29. C. Metra, Giovanni Mojoli, Sandro Pastore, Davide Salvi, Giacomo Sechi, “Novel Technique for Testing FPGAs”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Paris (France), pp. 89–94, February 23-26, 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1998.
30. (Invited) C. Metra, “Concurrent Testing Techniques for Clock’s Faults”, in Lecture Notes of theIntel Research Symposium VLSI Test, Santa Clara (CA), pp. 1–47, April 24, 1998, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara (CA).
31. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Novel Implementation for Highly Testable Parity Code Checkers”, in Compendium of Papers of 4^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Capri (Italy), pp. 167–171, July 6-8, 1998, Politecnico di Torino, Dip. Di Automatica e Informatica, Torino (Italy), 1998.
32. C. Metra, J-C. Lo, “General Design Method for VLSI High Speed Berger Code Checkers”, in Compendium of Papers of4^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Capri (Italy), pp.177–181, July 6-8, 1998, Politecnico di Torino, Dip. Di Automatica e Informatica, Torino (Italy), 1998.
33. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “On-Line Detection of Logic Errors due to Crosstalk, Delay and Transient Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference, Washington, D. C. (USA), pp. 524–533, October 18-23, 1998, International Test Conference, 2000 L Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20036, 1998.
34. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Signal Coding Technique and CMOS Gates for Strongly Fault-Secure Combinational Functional Blocks”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Austin (Texas), pp. 174–182, November 2-4, 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1998.
35. S. D’Angelo, C. Metra, S. Pastore, A. Pogutz, G. Sechi, “Fault-Tolerant Voting Mechanism and Recovery Scheme for TMR FPGA-based Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Austin (Texas), pp. 233–240, November 2-4, 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1998.
36. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “On the design of self-checking functional units based on Shannon circuits”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Monaco (Germany), pp. 368–375, March 9-12, 1999, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1999.
37. C. Metra, F. Giovanelli, M. Soma, B. Riccò, “Self-Checking Scheme for Very Fast Clock’s Skew Correction”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference, Atlantic City, NJ (USA), pp.~652–661, September 28-30, 1999, International Test Conference, 2000 L Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20036, 1999.
38. C. Metra, R. Degiampietro, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Concurrent Detection and Diagnosis Scheme for Transient, Delay and Crosstalk Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of 5^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 66–70, July 5-7, 1999, Dept. of Computer Eng. & Informatics, Univ. of Patras, Greece, 1999.
39. C. Metra, S. D’Angelo, G. Sechi, “Low Performance Degradation Transient Fault Recovery for TMR Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of 5^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 44–48, July 5-7, 1999, Dept. of Computer Eng. & Informatics, Univ. of Patras, Greece, 1999.
40. S. D’Angelo, C. Metra, G. Sechi, “Transient and Permanent Fault Diagnosis for FPGA-Based TMR Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, November 1-3, 1999, Albuquerque (New Mexico), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 1999.
41. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “On-Line Testing and Diagnosis of Bus Lines with respect to Intermediate Voltage Values”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), pp.763, March 27-30, 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2000.
42. C. Metra, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “On-Line Testing and Diagnosis Scheme for Intermediate Voltage Values Affecting Bus Lines”, in IEEE Proceedings of IEEE International Defect Based Testing Workshop, Montreal (Canada), pp. 76–81, April 29, 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2000.
43. M. Alderighi, S. D’Angelo, C. Metra, G. Sechi, “Achieving Fault Tolerance by Shifted and Rotated Operands in TMR non-Diverse ALUs”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems,Mt. Fuji (Japan), pp. 155–163, October 25-27, 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2000.
44. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Optimization of error detecting codes for the detection of crosstalk originated errors”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), pp. 290–296, March 13-16, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2001.
45. M. Alderighi, S. D’Angelo, C. Metra, G. Sechi, “Novel Fault-Tolerant Adder Design for FPGA – Based Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of 7^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Giardini Naxos-Taormina (Italy), pp. 54–58, July 9-11, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2001.
46. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Single Output Distributed Two-Rail Checker with Diagnosing Capabilities for Bus Based Self-Checking Architectures”, in IEEE Proceedings of 7^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Giardini Naxos-Taormina (Italy), pp. 100–105, July 9-11, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2001.
47. C. Metra, A. Pagano, B. Riccò, “On-Line Testing of Transient and Crosstalk Faults Affecting Interconnections of FPGA-Implemented Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference (ITC), Baltimore (MD), pp. 939–947, October 30 – November 1, 2001, International Test Conference, 2000 L Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20036, 2001.
48. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, T. M. Mak, B. Riccò, “Evaluation of Clock Distribution Networks’ Most Likely Faults and Produced Effects”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, pp. 357–365, October 24-26, 2001, San Francisco (CA, USA), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2001.
49. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Problems due to open faults in the interconnections of self-checking data-paths”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), March 4-8, pp. 612–617, 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
50. C. Metra, L. Schiano, M. Favalli, B. Riccò, “Self-Checking Scheme for the On-Line Testing of Power Supply Noise”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), pp. 832–836, March 4-8, 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
51. D. Rossi, V.E.S. van Dijk, R.P. Kleihorst, A.H. Nieuwland and C. Metra, “Coding Scheme for Low Energy Consumption Fault-Tolerant Bus”, in IEEE Proceedings 8^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Isle of Bendor (France), pp. 8–12, July 8-10, 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
52. L. Schiano, C. Metra and D. Marino, “Design and Implementation of a Self-Checking Scheme for Railway Trackside Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings 8^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop, Isle of Bendor (France), pp. 243–247, July 8-10, 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
53. D. Rossi, C. Metra and B. Riccò, “Fast and Compact Error Correcting Scheme for Reliable Multilevel Flash Memories”, in IEEE Proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing, Isle of Bendor (France), pp. 27–31, July 10-12, 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
54. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, T. M. Mak, “Clock Faults’ Impact on Manufacturing Testing and Their Possible Detection Through On-line Testing”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference (ITC), Baltimore (MD), October 8-10, 2002, pp. 100-109, International Test Conference, 2025 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington D.C., 20036, 2002.
55. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, G. Marrale, “On-Line Testing of Transient faults Affecting Functional Blocks of FCMOS, Domino and FPGA-Implemented Self-Checking Circuits”,in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, November 6-8, 2002, Vancouver (Canada), pp. 207-215, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2002.
56. M. Omaña, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “High Speed and Highly Testable Parallel Two- Rail Code Checker”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), pp. 608–613, March 4-7, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
57. D. Rossi, V.E.S. van Dijk, R.P. Kleihorst, A.H. Nieuwland and C. Metra, “Power Consumption of Fault Tolerant Codes: the Active Elements”, in IEEE Proceedings 9^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium”, Kos (Greece), July 7 – 9, 2003, pp. 61-67, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
58. L. Di Silvio, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “Crosstalk effect minimization for encoded bus”, in IEEE Proceedings 9^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Kos (Greece), July 7 – 9, 2003, pp. 214-218, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
59. M. Omaña, G. Papasso, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “A Model for Transient FaultPropagation in Combinatorial Logic”, in IEEE Proceedings 9^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Kos (Greece), July 7 – 9, 2003, pp. 111-115, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
60. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Novel Transient Fault Hardened StaticLatch”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference (ITC), Baltimore (MD), September 30 – October 2, 2003, pp. 886-892, International Test Conference, 2025 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington D.C., 20036, 2003.
61. C. Metra, S. Di Francescantonio, M. Omana, “Automatic Modification ofSequential Circuits for Self-Checking Implementation”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), November 2003, pp. 417-424, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
62. D. Rossi, S. Cavallotti, C. Metra, “Error Correcting Codes for Crosstalk Effect Minimization”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), November 2003, pp. 257-264, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
63. C. Metra, TM Mak, D. Rossi, “Clock Calibration Faults and their Impact on Quality of High Performance Microprocessors”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston (MA), November 2003, pp.63-70, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2003.
64. C. Metra, TM Mak, M. Omaña, “Are Our Design For Testability Features Fault Secure ?”, in IEEE Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Paris (France), pp. 714—715, February 16-20, 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
65. J. M. Cazeaux, M. Omaña, and C. Metra, “Low-Area and Fast On-Chip Circuit for Jitter Measurement in Phase-Locked Loop”, in IEEE Proceedings 10^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Madeira (Portugal), July 12 – 14, 2004, pp. 17-22, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
66. J. M. Cazeaux, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “New High Speed CMOS Self-Checking Voter”, in IEEE Proceedings 10^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Madeira (Portugal), July 12 – 14, 2004, pp. 58-63, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
67. C. Metra, TM Mak, M. Omaña, “Fault Secureness Need for Next Generation High Performance Microprocessor Design for Testability Structures”, in Proceedings of 2004 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia (Italy), pp. 444—450, April 14-16, 2004, ACM ISBN: 1-58113-741-9.
68. C. Metra, A. Ferrari, M. Omaña and A. Pagni, “Hardware Reconfiguration Scheme for High Availability Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings 10^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Madeira (Portugal), July 12 – 14, 2004, pp. 161-166, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
69. D. Rossi, A. Muccio, A. K. Neiuwland, A. Kotoch and C. Metra, “Impact of ECCs on Simultaneously Switching Outputs Noise for On-Chip Busses of High Reliability Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings 10^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Madeira (Portugal), July 12 – 14, 2004, pp. 135-140 IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
70. C. Metra, TM Mak, M. Omaña, “Should We Make Our Design for Testability Schemes Fault Secure ?”, in IEEE Proceedings of The IEEE European Test Symposium, Aiaccio (Corsica), pp. 67—72, May, 2004.
71. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM Mak, “Risks Associated with Faults within Test Pattern Compactors and Their Implications on Testing”, in IEEE Proceedings of International Test Conference (ITC), Charlotte (NC), pp. 1223 – 1231, October 26- October 28, 2004, International Test Conference, 2025 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington D.C., 20036, 2004.
72. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Fast and Low Cost Deskew Buffer”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Cannes (France), October 11-13, 2004, pp. 202 – 210, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2004.
73. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Low Cost Scheme for On-Line Clock Skew Compensation”, in IEEE Proceedings of 23^rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Palm Springs (California), May 1-5, 2005, pp. 90—95, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
74. J. M. Cazeaux, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, and A. Chatterjee, “On Transistor Level Gate Sizing for Increased Robustness to Transient Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings 11^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6-8, 2005, pp. 23—28, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
75. M. Omaña, O. Losco, C. Metra and A. Pagni, “On the Selection of Unidirectional Error Detecting Codes for Self-Checking Circuits’ Area Overhead and Performance Optimization”, in IEEE Proceedings 11^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6-8, 2005, pp. 163—168, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
76. A. K. Nieuwland, A. Katoch, D. Rossi and C. Metra, “Coding Techniques for Low Switching Noise in Fault Tolerant Busses”, in IEEE Proceedings 11^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6-8, 2005, pp. 183—189, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
77. Y. S. Dhillon, A. U. Diril, A. Chatterjee, and C. Metra, “Output Load and Logic Co-Optimization for Design of Soft-Error Resistant Nanometer CMOS Circuits”, in IEEE Proceedings 11^th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Saint Raphael (France), July 6-8, 2005, pp. 35—40, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
78. C. Metra, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, JM. Cazeaux, TM Mak, “The Other Side of the Timing Equation: a Result of Clock Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Monterey (California), October 3-5, 2005, pp. 169—177, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
79. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, F. Toma, C. Metra,, “Multiple Transient Faults in Logic: an Issue for Next Generation Ics ?”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Monterey (California), October 3-5, 2005, pp. 352—360, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2005.
80. D. Rossi, C. Steiner, C. Metra, “Analysis of the Impact of Bus Implemented EDCs on On-Chip SSN”, in IEEE Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2006), Munich (Germany), March 6-10, 2006, pp. 59—64, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2006.
81. M. Omaña, J. M. Cazeaux, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Low-Cost and Highly Reliable Detector for Transient and Crosstalk Faults Affecting FPGA Interconnects”, in IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2006), Munich (Germany) March 6 – 10, 2006, pp. 170—175, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2006.
82. C. Metra, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, J.M. Cazeaux, TM Mak, “Can Clock Faults Be Detected Through Functional Test ?”, Proc. of the 9^th IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS’06), Prague (Czech Republic), April 18 – 21, 2006, pp. 168—173, ISBN: 1-4244-0184-4.
83. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, A. Pagni, “Checker No-Harm Alarm Robustness”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Como (Italy), July 10-12, 2006, pp.275—280, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2006.
84. C. Metra, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, J. M. Cazeaux, TM Mak, “Path (Min) Delay Faults and Their Impact on Self-Checking Circuits’ Operation”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Como (Italy), July 10-12, 2006, pp.17—22, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2006.
85. D. Rossi, J. M. Cazeaux, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, “A Novel Dual-Walled CNT Bus Architecture with Reduced Cross-Coupling Features”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology,Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), July 16-20, 2006, IEEE Catalog number 06^TH8861C, ISBN 1-4244-0078-3.
86. X. Ma, J. Huang, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, “Testing Reversible 1D Arrays of Molecular QCA”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Washington DC (USA), October 4—6, 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2006.
87. M. Favalli, C. Metra, “Pulse propagation for the detection of small delay defects”, in IEEE Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2007), Nice (France), April 16-20, 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
88. D. Rossi, P. Angelini, C. Metra, “Configurable Error Control Scheme for NoC Signal Integrity”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Crete (Greece), July 9-11, 2007 pp. 1-6, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
89. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM. Mak, S. Tam, “Novel Approach to Clock Fault Testing for High Performance Microprocessors”, in IEEE Proceedings VLSI Test Symposium 2007, May 6-9, Berkeley, CA, 2007, pp. 441—446, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
90. X. Ma, J. Huang, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, “Testing Reversible One-Dimensional QCA Arrays for Multiple Faults”, in IEEE Proceedings of The International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems 2007, Rome (Italy), September 26-28, 2007, pp. 469-477, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2007.
91. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM. Mak, S. Tam, “Novel Compensation Scheme for Local Clocks of High Performance Microprocessors”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE International Test Conference 2007, Santa Clara (California), October 21-26, 2007, pp. 1-9, International Test Conference, 2025 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington D.C., 20036, 2007.
92. D. Rossi, P. Angelini, C. Metra, G. Campardo, GP Vanelli, “Risks for Signal Integrity in System in Package and Possible Remedies”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2008, Lake Maggiore (Italy), May 25-29, pp. 165—170, 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2008.
93. C. Metra, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, A. Jas, R. Galivanche, “Function-Inherent Code Checking: A New Low Cost On-Line Testing Approach For High Performance Microprocessor Control Logic”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2008, Lake Maggiore (Italy), May 25-29, pp. 171—176, 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2008.
94. C. Metra, M. Omaña, TM Mak, A. Rahman, S. Tam, “Novel On-Chip Clock Jitter Measurement Scheme For High Performance Microprocessors”, IEEE Proceedings of the 23th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’08), Cambridge (MA), October 1-3, pp. 465-473, 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2008.
95. X. Ma, J. Huang, F. Chiminazzo, D. Rossi, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, “Resistive Crossbar Switching Networks to Implement Inherently Fault Tolerant Nano LUTs”, IEEE Proceedings of the 1^st IEEE International Workshop on Design and Test of Nano Devices, Circuits and Systems (NDCS’08), Cambridge (MA), September 29-30, 2008, pp. 21 – 24, 2008,, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2008.
96. C. Metra, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, A. Jas, R. Galivanche, “Low Cost On-Line Testing of the Scheduler of High Performance Microprocessors”, Proceedings of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2009, Sevilla (Spain), May 25-29, 2009.
97. C. Metra, “Trading Off Dependability and Cost for Nanoscale High Performance Microprocessors: The Clock Distribution Problem”, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing 2009 (WDSN09), Estoril (Portugal), June 29, 2009, pp. D4-D5, 2009, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP09048-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4421-2, Library of Congress: 2009902897
98. (Best Paper Award) M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Novel High Speed Robust Latch”, IEEE Proceedings of the 23th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’09), Chicago (IL), October 7-9, pp. 65-73, 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2009.
99. M. Omaña, M. Marzencki, R. Specchia, C. Metra, B. Kaminska, “Concurrent Detection of Faults Affecting Energy Harvesting Circuits of Self-Powered Wearable Sensors”, IEEE Proceedings of the 23th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’09), Chicago (IL), October 7-9, pp.127-135, 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2009.
100. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, N. Bosio, C. Metra, “Novel Low-Cost Aging Sensor”, in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Bertinoro (Italy), May 17-19, 2010.
101. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, G Berghella, C. Metra, A. Jas, T. Chandra, R. Galivanche, “Low Cost and Low Intrusive Approach to Test On-Line the Scheduler of High Performance Microprocessors”, in ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Bertinoro (Italy), May 17-19, 2010.
102. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, N. Bosio, C. Metra, “Self-Checking Monitor for NBTI Due Degradation”, in Proc. of IEEE International Mixed-Signals, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop, June 7-9, 2010, Montpellier, France, 2010.
103. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, D. Giaffreda, C. Metra, “Secure Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”, in IEEE Proc. of the 8^th IEEE East-West Design & Test Symposium (EWDTS), September 17-20, 2010, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2010.
104. M. Omaña, D. Giaffreda, C. Metra, TM Mak, S. Tam, A. Rahman, “On-Die Ring Oscillator Based Measurement Scheme for Process Parameter Variations and Clock Jitter”, IEEE Proceedings of the 24^th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’10), Kyoto (Japan), October 6-8, 2010, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2010.
105. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, “Transient Fault and Soft Error on-Die Monitor”, IEEE Proceedings of the 24^th IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’10), Kyoto (Japan), October 6-8, 2010, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2010.
106. D. Rossi, N. Timoncini, M. Spica, C. Metra, “Error Correcting Code Analysis for Memory High Reliability and Performance”, in IEEE Proc. of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2011), Grenoble (France), March 14-18, 2011, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2011.
107. D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, A. Paccagnella, “Impact of Aging Phenomena on Soft Error Susceptibility”, IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT’11), Vancouver (Canada), October 3-5, 2011, pp.18-24, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2011.
108. D. Giaffreda, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Model for Thermal Behavior of Shaded Photovoltaic Cells Under Hot-Spot Condition”, IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT’11), Vancouver (Canada), October 3-5, 2011, pp. 252-258, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2011.
109. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, G. Collepalumbo, C. Metra, F. Lombardi, “Faults Affecting the Control Blocks of PV Arrays and Techniques for Their Concurrent Detection”, in IEEE Proceedings of the 25^th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT’12), Austin (Texas, USA), October 3-5, 2012, pp. 199-204, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2012.
110. R. Vimalathithan, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, C. Metra, M. L. Valarmathi, “Polynomial Based Key Distribution Scheme for WPAN”, in Proceedings of 3^rd International Conference on Cryptology and Computer Security 2012, June 4-6 2012, Langkawi, Malaysia, 2012.
111. C. Bolchini, A. Miele, C. Sandionigi, M. Ottavi, S. Pontarelli, A. Salsano, C. Metra, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, M. Sonza Reorda, L. Sterpone, M. Violante, S. Gerardin, M. Bagatin, A. Paccagnella, “High-reliability Fault Tolerant Digital Systems in Nanometric Technologies: Characterization and Design Methodologies” in IEEE Proceedings of the 25^th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT’12), Austin (Texas, USA), October 3-5, 2012, pp. 121-125, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2012.
112. M. Omaña, F. Fuzzi, D. Rossi, C. Metra, C. Tirumurti, R. Galivanche, “Novel Approach to Reduce Power Droop During Scan-Based Logic BIST”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2013, Avignon (France), May 27-31, 2013, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2013.
113. M. Omaña, D. Rossi, E. Beniamino, C. Metra, C. Tirumurti, and R. Galivanche, “Power Droop Reduction During Launch-On-Shift Scan-Based Logic BIST” in IEEE Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Amsterdam, October 1-3, 2014, pp. 21-26, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California), 2014.
114. M. Omaña, L. A. Adanaque, C. Metra, D. Rossi, “On Aging of Latches’ Robustness”, in Proc. of Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale (MEDIAN) Workshop, 2015.
115. M. A. Koche, A. Dalirsni, A. Bernabei, M. Omaña, C. Metra, H.-J. Wunderlich, “Intermittent and Transient Fault Diagnosis on Sparse Code Signatures”, in IEEE Proc. of Int’l. Asian Test Sympsium, Mumbay (India), 22-25 November, 2015, pp. 157 – 162.
116. M. Omaña, A. Fiore, C. Metra, “Inverters’ Self-Checking Monitors for Reliable Photovoltaic Systems”, in IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2016), Dresden (Germany), 14 – 18 March, 2016, pp. 672 – 677.
117. C. Metra, “Test and Reliability Challenges for High Performance, Nanotechnology Circuits and Systems", in IEEE Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS), Košice (Slovakia), April 20-22, 2016, pp. 1-2
118. M. Grossi, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra, “Novel BTI Robust Ring-Oscillator-Based Physically Unclonable Function”, in IEEE Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Torino (Italy), September 12-14, 2022
119. M. Omaña, F. Finelli, C. Metra, “Impact of Soft Errors on High Performance Autoencoders for Cyberattack Detection”, in IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE International Latin Amarican Test Symposium, Virtual Event, September 5-8, 2022

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