Education & Teaching
Teaching
Bachelor and Master degree courses (as professor)
- Courses for Master Students @ Human Science Faculty
- Advanced Telematics (6 credits, 36 hours) [Sept. 2015 – Present]
- Advanced Telematics (6 credits, 30 hours) [Sept. 2011 – Jun. 2015]
- Telematics for arts and show (6 credits, 20 hours) [Sept. 2004 – Jun. 2011]
- Laboratory of Telematics for arts and show (2 credits, 50 hours) [Sept. 2004 – Jun. 2011]
- Fundamentals of Informatics (3 credits, 15 hours) [Sept. 2009 – Jun. 2010]
- Informatics for Cultural Heritage (3 credits, 15 hours) [Sept. 2006 – Jun. 2010]
- Courses for Undergraduate Students @ Engineering Faculty
- Laboratory of Fundamentals of Internet (3 credits, 27 hours) [Sept. 2016 – Present]
- Laboratory of Informatics (3 credits, 27 hours) [Sept. 2012 – Jun. 2016]
- Laboratory of Information Technology (6 credits, 54 hours) [Sept. 2008 – Jun. 2012]
- Courses for Undergraduate Students @ Human Science Faculty
- Telematics for arts and show (6 credits, 36 hours) [Sept. 2015 – Present]
- Telematics for arts and show (6 credits, 30 hours) [Sept. 2011 – Jun. 2015]
- Elements of Telematics (6 credits, 20 hours) [Sept. 2004 – Jun. 2011]
- Laboratory of Elements of Telematics (2 credits, 50 hours) [Sept. 2004 – Jun. 2011]
PhD/Post-Doc Courses (as professor/lecturer)
- Fundamentals of Physical Layer Security, PhD program in Information Engineering, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy, 2024 (8 hours, 2 credits).
- Visible light communications, University of Florence, Dept. of Information Engineering, Italy, 2019 (12 hours, 3 credits).
- Physical Layer Security for Wireless Systems, University of Florence, Dept. of Information Engineering, Italy, 2019 (12 hours, 3 credits).
- University of Florence, Dept. of Information Engineering, Italy, 31 Jan - 03 Feb 2017 (12 hours, 3 credits).
- Fundamentals of Physical-Layer Security
- University of Florence, Dept. of Information Engineering, Italy, 10-12 Feb 2015 (9 hours, 2 credits).
Students which have attended the course can ask the slides by email.
- University of Florence, Dept. of Information Engineering, Italy, 10-12 Feb 2015 (9 hours, 2 credits).
- Intensive course on Physical layer wireless security
- University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology, Dept. of Communications Engineering, Finland, June 2014.
- Short Course on Physical Layer Security
- University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology, Dept. of Communications Engineering, Finland, May 2012.
Invited Lectures, Seminars, etc. (as lecturer)
- BRIGHT'15: Firenze, 25 Sett. 2015
- Visible Light Communications
- Wireless Sensor Network for Ground Instability Monitoring
- Reti di sensori wireless per il monitoraggio frane: l’esperienza del progetto SEED, Anie Forum Telecontrollo, Milano, 29-30 Sett. 2015.
- Reti di sensori wireless ed applicazioni di telecontrollo, Anie Forum Telecontrollo 2013, Bologna 6-7 Nov. 2013.
- Security in cognitive networks: a novel approach for physical layer cryptography
- CWC, University of Oulu, Finland, 2010.
- Physical Layer Cryptography And Cognitive Networks
- Strategic workshop "Distributed and secure cloud clustering", Florence, Italy, 2010.
- UWB tecnology for real-time localization
- Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy, 2010.
- UWB Localizers in Realistic Environments
- CWC, University of Oulu, Finland, 2006.
Education
I received the "Laurea" (Master Degree) in Telecommunication Engineering (Oct. 1998) and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Information Society (2002) at the Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
I spent one year (2000) during my Ph.D. as visiting research scientist in the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland.
Ph.D. Courses (attended)
- Advanced Receivers for Wireless Communications (Prof. Savo G. Glisic)
- Multicarrier techniques in wireless and wireline communications (Prof. M. Renfors)
- Wired and wireless local area networks (Prof. K. Pahlavan)
- OFDM Techinques (Prof. M. Latva-aho, Prof. M. Juntti, Prof. J. Jinatti, Dr. Tech. H. Saarnisaari)
- CDMA communications principle (Prof. M. Latva-aho, Prof. M. Juntti)
- Advanced receivers for CDMA systems (Prof. M. Latva-aho, Prof. M. Juntti)
- WCDMA for UMTS (Prof. M. Juntti)
- Information Theory (Prof. M. Juntti)
and
- Propagation and Planning Principles in Cellular Radio Systems
Teacher: Prof. GABRIELE FALCIASECCA, Università di Bologna - Multicarrier Systems
Teacher: Prof. NEVIO BENVENUTO, Università di Padova - The New Frontier of Channel Coding: Generalized Concatenated Codes with Interleavers
Teacher: Prof. SERGIO BENEDETTO, Politecnico di Torino - Fundamentals of Mobile Radio Communication Systems
Teacher: Prof. MARCO CHIANI, Università di Bologna - Advanced Receivers for CDMA Systems
Teacher: Prof. PIERO CASTOLDI, Scuola Superiore “S. Anna”, Pisa - Multi-user Receivers for Wireless Communications on Fading Dispersive Channels
Teacher: Prof. MARCO LOPS, DAEIMI, Università di Cassino - Satellite Systems and Applications
Teachers: Prof. MARINA RUGGIERI, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Prof. ERNESTINA CIANCA, Università di Aalborg(Denmark) - Emerging Technologies for Mobile Communications: Smart Antennas and Software Radio
Teacher: Prof. ENRICO DEL RE, Università di Firenze