Short Bio

Luca Mottola is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a Senior Researcher at RI.SE Sweden and head of the Networked Embedded Software Lab. The lab develops intelligent technologies at the frontier of the Internet of Things, including embedded AI, battery-less sensing, nanosatellites, Internet-connected robotics. These technologies have been downloaded 10,000+ times, are used by a dozen companies to create new products, and are currently running in hundreds of embedded devices worldwide. To date, he is the only European researcher to be granted multiple times with the ACM SigMobile Research Highlight and win Best Paper Awards at multiple flagship conferences of ACM SigMobile and ACM SigBed. He received the ACM SENSYS Test of Time Award in 2022 and is a Google Faculty Award winner.

He is the past General Chair for ACM/IEEE CPS-IoT Week 2022, past PC Chair for ACM MOBISYS, ACM SENSYS (youngest to date), ACM/IEEE IPSN (youngest to date), and ACM EWSN, as well as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Networking and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He holds or held visiting positions at Uppsala University, NXP Technologies, University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Chicago, TU Graz, and USI Lugano.

He is the Chair’s Delegate for International Relations at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Bioengineering (DEIB) at Politecnico di Milano, and the coordinator of International Mobility in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.