SHORT CURRICULUM
Cecilia Metra is a Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Bologna, where she has been working since 1991. She received a Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. She was President of the School of Engineering at the University of Bologna and, in 2002, she was a Visiting Faculty Consultant for Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California). She was part of the Italian National Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data, and Quantum Computing (September 2022-2025), and of the Italian Research Project on Security and Rights in the Cyberspace – SERICS (January 2023-2025).
She is a member of the Board of Directors, as an Independent Director, of DANIELI & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A. (October 2021-present).
She is the 2026-2025 IEEE Director, Division VIII, and was the 2023-2022 IEEE Director, Division V, and 2019 President of the IEEE Computer Society.
He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the “IEEE Metaverse” Initiative of the IEEE Future Directions (2023-present). She is a member of the IEEE TAB Management Committeee (2024-2026), and she was a member of the IEEE Conferences Committee (2021-2024), the IEEE European Public Policy Committee - EPPC (2020-2023), the IEEE Smart Village Governing Board (2020-2023), the IEEE Award Committee (2022-2023), the IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award Committee (2022-2023), the IEEE Young Professionals Committee (2021-2022), IEEE Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2022), IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee (2020). She was Co-Chair of the IEEE EPPC Working Group on ICT (2021-2022) and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative Project on “Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems” (2019-2022), and member of the IEEE Systems Council Advisory Committee (2020-2022), of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Board of Governors (2015-2018), and the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013-2017).
She was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and of Computing Now, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE “Transactions on Sustainable Computing”. She has contributed to numerous IEEE international conferences, symposia, workshops, summits, and meetings as General/Program Chair/Co-Chair (19 times), Technical Program Committee member (more than 100 times), and Keynote/Invited Speaker/Panelist (more than 50 times).
She has published more than 200 articles in international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings on test and test-oriented design of electronic circuits/systems, reliable, safe, secure, and fault-resilient electronic circuits/systems, circuits/systems for Artificial Intelligence (AI), fault-tolerance techniques, error-correcting codes, secure communication protocols, photovoltaic and energy-harvesting systems, and emerging technologies. Her research has received public and private funding (e.g., from the EU, the Italian Ministries of Economic Development and Research, and from industries such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Alstom Transport, Thales, etc.) at the national and international levels.
She is an IEEE Fellow, an 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.
