Dr Michele Magno currently leads the Center for Project-Based Learning at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zurich. He received his master’s and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2004 and 2010 respectively. He has been working at ETH Zurich since 2013 and is also a visiting full professor at Mid Sweden University.

Dr Magno’s current research interests include smart sensing, low-power machine learning, wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, energy harvesting, low-power management techniques and extending the lifetime of battery-operated devices. He has produced more than 170 conference presentations and papers published in international journals. Some of his publications have received the Best Paper Award at IEEE conferences, such as the 2018 IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, the 2018 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium and the 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, among others. He is a Senior IEEE Member and a member of the ACM. He has also received awards for industrial projects or patents, such as the 2021 Top 20 Spark Award, the 2018 Top 5 Spark Award and many IEEE paper (2021 IEEE WiMob), poster or demo awards.