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Cecilia Metra

Full Professor

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"

Academic discipline: IINF-01/A Electronics

Curriculum vitae

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SHORT CURRICULUM 

Cecilia Metra is Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Bologna, where she has been working since 1991, and from which she received the Laurea in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) and the PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. She has been Vice-President and President of the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna. In 2002, she was Visiting Faculty Consultant for Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California). She is part of the Italian National Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing (September 2022-present), and of the Italian Research Project on Security and Rights In the CyberSpace – SERICS (January 2023-present).

She is the 2024 IEEE Director-Elect, Division VIII (and will be the 2026-2025 IEEE Director, Division VIII), and was the 2023-2022 IEEE Director, Division V, and the 2019 President of the IEEE Computer Society.

She is Co-Chair of the IEEE Future Directions “IEEE Metaverse” Initiative, and a member of the IEEE Conferences Committee (2021-2024). She was a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee - EPPC (2020-2023), of the IEEE Smart Village Governing Board (2020-2023), of the IEEE Award Committee (2022-2023), of the IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award Committee (2022-2023), of the IEEE Young Professionals Committee (2021-2022), of the IEEE Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2020-2023). 22), of the IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee (2020). She was Co-Chair of the IEEE EPPC Working Group on ICT (2021-2022) and of the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative Project on “Reliable, Safe, Secure and Time Deterministic Intelligent Systems” (2019-2022), and a member of the IEEE Systems Council Advisory Committee (2020-2022), the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Board of Governors (2015-2017), and of 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 has contributed to numerous IEEE international cConferences/Symposia/Workshops/Summits/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 papers) in international journals/Proceedings of international peer-reviewed conferences on test and test-oriented design of electronic circuits/systems, on reliable, safe, secure and fault-resilient electronic circuits/systems, on circuits/systems for Artificial Intelligence (AI), on fault tolerance techniques, on 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 Ministries MISE and MIUR, and from Industries such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Alstom Transport, Thales, etc.) at national and international level.

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