Martin Omaña obtained the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Buenos Aires, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna.
Contract Professor for:
“Sistemi Elettronici ad Alta Affidabilità M” of the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna (A.A. 20-21, 21-22, 22-23)
“Introduction to Computer Architectures M” of the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering (curriculum Electronic technologies for Big-Data and Internet of Things - EBIT) of the University of Bologna (A.A. 18-19)
“Elettronica T”, of the Degree in Electrical Energy Engineering of the University of Bologna (A.A. 14-15, 15-16, 16-17, 17-18, 18-19)
Awards and Recognitions:
Selection for the Innovation@Intel website (“Fishing for Faults in the Field”, 21 May 2010), of the article “Low Cost and Low Intrusive Approach to Test On-Line the Scheduler of High Performance Microprocessors”, D. Rossi, M. Omaña, G. Berghella, C. Metra, A. Jas, T. Chandra, R. Galivianche
Best Paper Award of the 24th IEEE Defect and Fault Tolerance Symposium in VLSI Systems 2009 (Chicago, Illinois, October 7-9, 2009), for the paper entitled: “Novel High Speed Robust Latch”, M. Omaña, D. Rossi, C. Metra
Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) – Canada, 2020. Title of the evaluated project: “Reliability-Aware Design of Systems on Chip (SoCs)”; duration of the project: 3 years; project cost: 500k Canadian dollars
Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society, December 2020
Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society, November 2016
Member of the PhD Board of Examiners of Anna University, Chennai, India, for the PhD Thesis “Certain investigations on Voltage level Shifters for low power System on Chip Applications”, R. Selvakuma, 2020
Member of the PhD Board of Examiners of Anna University, Chennai, India, for the PhD Thesis “Certain Investigation on different logic styles used in Hybrid Full adder for arithmetic applications”, R. Thiruvengadam, 2022
Editorials
Member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI Telecom journal (ISSN 2673-4001), 2020-present
Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (ISSN: 2168-6750), 2018 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of the (open access) Journal of VLSI Design, Hindawi (ISSN: 1065-514X), 2018
Member of the Advisory Board of IEEE Computing Now, 2016 – 2018
Guest Editor of the Monthly Theme of January 2017 of IEEE Computing Now, entitled "Maximizing Solar Power: Not only a Matter of Cell Efficiency", 2017
Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue on “Sensors and Embedded Systems in Agriculture and Food Analysis” of the Journal of Sensors, Hindawi, 2018
Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue on “Applications of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) in the Development of Sensors and Sensing Systems” of Sensors Magazine, MDPI, 2019
Responsible for the Spanish audio version of the Monthly Themes of the IEEE Computer Society international journal Computing Now, 2016 - 2017
Activities in International Conferences
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the PhD Forum Track of the international conference IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2017, DATE 2018, DATE 2019, DATE 2020, DATE 2021, DATE 2023)
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the international conference IEEE FRUCT Conference, Helsinki (Finland), (2021, 2022).
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the international conference 35th IEEE Symposium on Microelectronics Technology and Devices (SBMicro 2021), 2021.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the international conference IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS 2020, ETS 2019, ETS 2018, ETS 2017)
Member of the Jury for the Best Presentation Award of the PhD Forum Track of the international conference IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2021 (DATE 2021), Grenoble (France), February 1, 2021
Member of the Publicity Committee of the international conference IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS 2011, VTS 2012)
Local Chair of the international conference 12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS 2006), Como (Italy)
Local Organizing Committee Chair of the “2019 IEEE Technical Meeting on Reliable, Safe, Secure, and Time-Deterministic Intelligent Systems”, 2019, 2020
Local Organizing Committee Chair of the “1st IEEE Computer Society Global Chapter Summit”, Bologna (Italy), December 7, 2019
Research activity
Martin Omaña is/has been carrying out research activities within projects funded by international industries and national bodies (such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Alstom Transport, Beghelli, the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI)), as well as in the context of scientific collaborations with Italian and foreign universities, industries, and institutions (such as Simon Fraser University (Canada), Georgia Tech University (Georgia, US), Northeastern University, (Boston, USA), Stuttgart University (Germany), Twente University (Netherlands), Athens University (Greece), University of Padua, University of Pisa , the Turin Polytechnic, the Milan Polytechnic, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, IMEC (Belgium), Electrolux, Maserati, ABB, Toyota, Kiwitron, Intel Labs (Germany), Datalogic, Ducati, NXP Semiconductors, ELES Semiconductor tor Equipment).
Martin Omaña has also been co-lead (co-Investigator) of two research projects funded by Intel Corporation, for 2018-2019 and for 2020-2021.
Martin Omaña's research activity falls within the following research topics: Design and Test; On-Line Test; Reliable and Error Resilient Systems; Diagnosis and Debug; Error Detecting/Correcting Codes; Secure Communication Protocols; Fault Modelling; Photovoltaic Systems.
Moreover, Martin Omaña has supervised the research activity of 4 PhD students (PhD students at the University of Bologna, and Visiting PhD students at the University of Bologna), as well as more of 50 degree theses by students of the University of Bologna.
Tutor for:
“Reliable Data Processing and Storage for Intelligent Systems M”, of the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering (curriculum Electronics for Intelligent Systems, Big-Data and Internet of Things - EBIT) of the University of Bologna (A.A. 20-21, 21-22)
“Design for Reliable Data Processing and Storage M”, from the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering (curriculum Electronics for Intelligent Systems, Big-Data and Internet of Things - EBIT) of the University of Bologna (A.A. 19-20)
“Elettronica T-1” of the Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Bologna (A.A. 13-14, 17-18)
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Since 2015, He is a contract Professor in Electronics at the University of Bologna. He is/has been a Member of the Organizing Committee of the IEEE Internatinal On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS 2006) and of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS 2011 and VTS 2012). He has been Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS 2017, ETS 2018 and ETS 2019) and of the PhD Forum Track in IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2017, DATE 2018 and DATE 2019). Since June 2018, He is a Memmber of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Since March 2016, He is an Editorial Committee Member of the magazine IEEE Computing Now, for which He received a Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society in November 2016. Since June 2018, He is an Editorial Committee Member of the Journal of VLSI Design, Hindawi. He served as Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Sensors and Embedded Systems in Agriculture and Food Analysis” in Journal of Sensors, Hindawi. He is/has been reviewer for many international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Trans. Very-Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) System, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. He obtained the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFTS) 2009. During his research activity, Dr. Omaña has collaborated in research contracts with many leader companies in the electronics sector, including Intel Corporation (from 2007) for fault tolerance related researches. He has also collaborated in research projects with many Italian and foreign Universities, among them, from 2008, the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), for researches related to the development of reliable energy harvesting systems.
