Research Highlights

  • November 04, 2024

    Dr. Rioja’s Spanish Grant for Research Award

    The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Martínez de Rioja from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has been awarded a Spanish grant for research stays at ELEDIA@UniTN in 2025! 🇪🇸 🤝 🇮🇹The joint research proposal, focused on Smart EM Environment technologies, received a score of 98/100, ranking 11th out of the 235 awarded grants! 🏅 🏆Our warmest congratulation for this impressive achievement!More info on our research and teaching initiatives in the field:Multifunctional Metamaterials and Metastructures (M3) Masterhttps://lnkd.in/dSnrw68ZUniversità…

  • October 15, 2024

    Wi-fi e 5G ovunque grazie a impossibili giochi di specchi

    Un “gioco di specchi” per portare i segnali wi-fi o 5G ovunque a piacimento, per aggirare muri e ostacoli, oppure rendere completamente trasparenti ai segnali i vetri delle finestre: sono le skin-smart sviluppate dal gruppo di ricerca Eledia dell’Università di Trento a e presentate in occasione del convegno Rinem organizzato a Viareggio dalla Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo. Agenzia ANSA, October 14, 2024

  • October 13, 2024

    ELEDIA Paper Published in the IEEE-TAP

    The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that a new paper has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation: G. Oliveri, F. Zardi, L. Tosi and A. Massa, “On the Use of Specular Reflecting Passive EM Skins in NLOS Wireless Backhauling—Performance and Design Guidelines,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 7893-7904, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3438940. The paper can be downloaded at the following link: https://lnkd.in/dHseW7Bf— #ELEDIA #research #metasurfaces #nextgeneration #wireless…

  • October 10, 2024

    ELEDIA Paper Published in the IEEE-TAP

    The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that a new paper has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation: P. D. Rù, A. Benoni, M. Salucci, P. Rocca and A. Massa, “An Opportunistic Source Synthesis Method for Smart Electromagnetic Environments,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 7970-7985, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2024.3451162. The paper can be downloaded at the following link: https://lnkd.in/dBcG6mW7— #ELEDIA #research #antennas #arrays #metasurface #smart #electromagnetic #seme

  • July 30, 2024

    Tommaso Simoncelli won the 2024 AP-S Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship

    🎉 We are pleased to announce that Tommaso Simoncelli has won the 2024 AP-S Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (#USRS) #Award for his research project on “Smart Electromagnetic Environment (SEME) – Outdoor Heterogeneous Planning” under the guidance of Prof. Andrea Massa! IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) has committed $102,000 in 2024 to fund 34 Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships (USRS).The USRS is introduced to promote the Society’s areas of interest among undergraduate students worldwide to ignite their interest in pursuing graduate…

  • July 15, 2024

    Dr. Marco Salucci talk on: “Deep Learning Assisted Design of EM Skin Meta-Atoms within the System-by-Design”

    This afternoon at the IEEE APS/URSI 2024 Florence (IT) Dr. Marco Salucci presented a talk on “𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗠 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮-𝗔𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝗯𝘆-𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻” as part of the Special Session on “Machine‐Learning as applied to EM ‐ Trends, Advances, and Applications”. Here are some pictures of his talk! UniTrento – DICAM Università di Trento IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society#ELEDIA #AI #ML #DL #DeepLearning #machinelearning #systembydesign #SEME

  • July 15, 2024

    Prof. Giacomo Oliveri talk on “Optically-Transparent EM Skins for Next-Generation Smart Buildings”

    This afternoon at the IEEE APS/URSI 2024 Florence (IT) Prof. Giacomo Oliveri presented a talk on “𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗠 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀” as part of the Special Session on “Multi-functional Reconfigurable Surfaces for Next-Generation Sensing and Communications”. Here are some pictures of his talk! UniTrento – DICAM Università di Trento IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society#ELEDIA #SEME #EMSkins #Transparent

  • April 03, 2024

    The Winners of the Best Student Paper Award at PACET 2024

    🎉 We are pleased to announce that Arianna Benoni, Federico Capra, Alessandro Polo, Marco Salucci, and Andrea Massa won the Best Student Paper Award with the paper titled “Towards Robust and Cost-Effective Smart Electromagnetic Environments Empowering Next-Gen Wi-Fi Systems” at the Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET 2024 – March 28-29, 2024 – Thessaloniki, Greece). 📸 Here is a picture of the celebration! 🔗 Conference program: https://lnkd.in/dBVk78si 🌐 For more information visit the official website: https://lnkd.in/dUNvteCh Università di TrentoUniTrento…

  • March 29, 2024

    Dr. Alessandro Polo’s talk on “Towards Robust and Cost-Effective Smart Electromagnetic Environments Empowering Next-Gen Wi-Fi Systems” at PACET 2024

    🎙 Yesterday Alessandro Polo (ELEDIA@DICAM – Università di Trento) gave a talk on “Towards Robust and Cost-Effective Smart Electromagnetic Environments Empowering Next-Gen Wi-Fi Systems” at the Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET 2024 – March 28-29, 2024 – Thessaloniki, Greece). 📸 Here is a picture from his presentation! 🔗 Conference program: https://lnkd.in/dBVk78si 🌐 For more information visit the official website: https://lnkd.in/dUNvteCh IEEE PACET 2024 UniTrento – DICAM#conference #research #communication #5g #international

  • March 21, 2024

    Prof. Paolo Rocca Invited Talk at the 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

    📸 We are pleased to share this photo from the #invitedtalk given this afternoon by Prof. Paolo Rocca at the 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (#eucap2024). 🎙 His talk, titled “Crafting the Future of Smart EM Environments Through the System-by-Design – The SEME@Trentino Initiative” presented some the recent advances carried out within the SEME@Trentino initiative on the use of the #SbD for developing novel #SEME technology and solutions, also envisaging future trends in such a rapidly growing field of research. Università di Trento UniTrento – DICAM Provincia Autonoma…

  • March 11, 2024

    Prof. Paolo Rocca Invited Talk at the upcoming “18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2024)”

    🎉 The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that Prof. Paolo Rocca will be #Invited Speaker at the upcoming “18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2024)” with a talk on “Crafting the Future of Smart EM Environments Through the System-by-Design – The SEME@Trentino Initiative” EuCAP 2024 will take place next week (17-22 March 2024) in Glasgow, UK. 📜 More information at: https://lnkd.in/eTZNYhTc🔗 Conference program: https://lnkd.in/dNchudwP #ELEDIA #EuCAP2024 #conference #SmartEMEnvironment #SEME #Keynotes #Event Università di Trento UniTrento – DICAM

  • February 15, 2024

    Prof. Andrea MASSA’s keynote speech at the Fourth Marina Forum

    📣 The #ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that Prof. Andrea Massa will be #keynote Speaker at the upcoming Fourth Marina Forum (Mar-For 2024) with a talk on “On the Physical-Layer Implementation of the Metaverse – Physical-Driven AI-Based Synthesis and Planning of the Smart-EM-Environment (SEME) Entities”. The conference will be held on 4-7 March 2024 at Orchard Hotel in Singapore. 📅 Registration is now open! 📜 More information at: https://lnkd.in/dABPa9uW🔗 Keynote speakers: https://lnkd.in/dh8ZJyiU #SmartEMEnvironment #SEME #Metamaterials #Metantennas #Metasurfaces #Keynotes…

  • January 19, 2024

    Arianna BENONI won the 2023 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant

    🎉 The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that Arianna Benoni has won the 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant for her research project on “Towards an Easy and Flexible Deployment of Static and Passive Electromagnetic Skins” under the guidance of Prof. Andrea Massa! The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) awards up to six $3,500 pre-doctoral grants and up to ten $5,000 doctoral grants each year to encourage students to pursue careers in the…

  • December 14, 2023

    Prof. Andrea Massa’s Invited Seminar titled “From the Smart Entities Design to the Smart EM Planning and Optimization” at the Università di Catania

    This morning Prof. Andrea Massa gave an invited #seminar titled “From the Smart Entities Design to the Smart EM Planning and Optimization: A Journey Towards the Physical Implementation of the Metaverse” at the Università di Catania (Aula Magna – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica). 📸 Here is one picture from his seminar. Many thanks to all the attendees and to the organizers of this event! Università di Trento UniTrento – DICAM #SEME #SmartEM #invited #talk

  • December 06, 2023

    Prof. Paolo ROCCA keynote speech at the AESPC 2023 conference

    🎓 Last Week Prof. Paolo Rocca gave a keynote speech on    “ ‘Building’ Smart EM Environments for Future Wireless Communication Systems Through AI ” at the 3th IEEE International conference on “Applied Electromagnetics, Signal Processing & Communication”, held at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar (India) on November 24-26, 2023. Many thanks to Dr. Sudhakar Sahu (Conference Chair, IEEE AESPC2023) and to the Organizing Committee for organizing this event. 🔗 Find out more at: https://aespc.kiit.ac.in/ Università di Trento UniTrento DICAM…

  • October 12, 2023

    Features and Potentialities of Static Passive EM Skins for NLOS Specular Wireless Links

    The #ELEDIAResearchCenter is pleased to announce that a new paper has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation: G. Oliveri, M. Salucci and A. Massa, “Features and Potentialities of Static Passive EM Skins for NLOS Specular Wireless Links,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 8048-8060, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3301654. The paper can be downloaded at the following link: https://lnkd.in/dY-WRCv9— #ELEDIA #research #ieee #ieeetap #emskin #metamaterial #metasurface

  • September 14, 2023

    Towards Real-World Indoor Smart Electromagnetic Environments – A Large-Scale Experimental Demonstration

    The #ELEDIAResearchCenter is proud to announce that the recently published paper A. Benoni, F. Capra, M. Salucci and A. Massa, “Towards Real-World Indoor Smart Electromagnetic Environments – A Large-Scale Experimental Demonstration,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3305053 has been selected as one of the featured articles of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation for September 2023! TAP website: https://lnkd.in/d4C-z8UX Paper download: https://lnkd.in/dW7n4qnN —Università di TrentoUniTrento – DICAM #ELEDIA #research #publication #award #ieeetap #featured #SEME #experimental

  • August 02, 2023

    Congratulations to Arianna Benoni, award winner of 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship

    🎉 We are pleased to announce that Arianna Benoni has won the 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship (IEEE APS-F) #Award for her research project on “Optimal Planning Techniques for Heterogeneous Smart Electromagnetic Environments” under the guidance of Prof. Andrea Massa! The aim of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship Program is to promote areas of interest to AP-S among graduate students and postdoctoral fellows worldwide to facilitate their career pursuit in these areas. Under this program, the…

  • July 06, 2023

    A picture from the seminar by Prof. MASSA at UESTC

    📸 A picture from the #invited #seminar titled “From the Smart Entities Design to the Smart EM Planning and Optimization – A Journey Towards the Physical Implementation of the Metaverse” held yesterday by Prof. Andrea Massa at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (#UESTC)! A special thanks to Prof. Shiwen YANG, Prof. Jun HU, and their team for the invitation, as well as to all the staff of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China for hosting and organizing this memorable…

  • June 23, 2023

    Prof. Giacomo Oliveri’s collaboration with IEEE Hyderabad Section

    It was a great pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to share the recent activities we are carrying out at ELEDIA Research Center and UniTrento DICAM, Università di Trento regarding advanced EM field manipulation and electromagnetic skins!! Thanks again to Dr. Sandeep Chaturvedi, SMIEEE, FIETE for the invitation and to all the attendees from IEEE Hyderabad Section for their nice questions!! #metasurfaces #electromagneticskins #metamaterials #wavemanipulation IEEE

  • October 26, 2022

    The First Large-Scale Indoor Smart EM Environment Experiment

    We are excited to announce the first large-scale indoor Smart Electromagnetic Environment experiment as part of the research activities carried out in collaboration with the Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK under the #SEME Joint Lab

  • July 01, 2022

    Prof. MASSA Technical Seminar at ARTIC of the National University of Singapore, Titled “Future Trends on Wireless Communications – The Paradigm of the Smart Electromagnetic Environment”

    We are pleased to announce that Prof. Andrea Massa hold an #invited technical seminar at the Advanced Research and Technology Innovation Centre (ARTIC) of the National University of Singapore titled “Future Trends on Wireless Communications – The Paradigm of the Smart Electromagnetic Environment”.

  • June 07, 2022

    Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas

    The #ELEDIAResearchCenter is pleased to announce that a new paper on Smart Electromagnetic Environment has been accepted and is available as early access: Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, B. Li and Andrea Massa, “Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

  • June 03, 2022

    Prof. Rocca Lecture at the 3rd URSI AT-AP-RASC

    In the context of the Didactic Seminar Series at the University of Salento in Lecce, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Andrea Massa will hold a first #seminar on “Smart Electromagnetic Environment – New Trends, Challenges, and Solutions in Wireless Communications”!

  • December 12, 2021

    Building a Smart EM Environment for Next-G Wireless Communications

    The #ELEDIAResearchCenter is pleased to announce that Prof. Paolo Rocca, from the #ELEDIA team, will hold a keynote talk on “Building a Smart EM Environment for Next-G Wireless Communications” at the 4th International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Networks and Computing Technologies (FTNCT-2021)

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