Dr Michele Magno is currently leading the centre for project-based learning at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich. He received his master and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He has been working in ETH since 2013 and has become a visiting full professor at Mid University Sweden.

His current research interests include smart sensing, low power machine learning, wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, energy harvesting, low power management techniques, and extension of the lifetime of batteries-operating devices. He has authored more than 170 papers in international journals and conferences. Some of his publications were awarded as best papers awards in IEEE conferences such as IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services 2018, IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) 2018, IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces 2017 among others. He is a senior IEEE member and an ACM member. He also received awards from industrial projects or patents, such as the Top 20 Spark Award 2021, Spark Award Best 5 Invention 2018 and many IEEE papers (IEEE WiMob 2021), poster or demo awards.