Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Expert in wireless networks, telecommunications engineering, mobile telephony and telematics engineering

Role

Full Professor of Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, TNG Group, Polytechnic University of Turin; Deputy Director of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Polytechnic University of Turin

Bio

After graduating in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence in 1996, she continued her studies, obtaining a PhD in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2000. That same year, she joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Polytechnic University of Turin, first with a grant from CSELT (now Telecom Italia) on wireless ATM networks, then with a short-term position as an assistant professor. From 1998 to 2003, she conducted research at the Center for Wireless Communications and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, San Diego. In 2012 and 2016, she was a visiting professor at Monash University (Australia). She is currently a full professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, and from 2012 to 2018, she was the coordinator of the Master's program in Communication and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Since March 2018, she has been the Rector's Delegate for Alumni and Career Orientation.

Chiasserini has participated in several national and European projects on wireless networking systems, such as RAMON, VICOM, PATTERN, NEWCOM++, NEWCOM#, MEADOW, VICSUM, and FIGARO , and was Principal Investigator for the national projects MASP, TA_SL, IoT_|_ToI, and LIMPID, as well as for the H2020 5G-Crosshaul, H2020 5G-TRANSFORMER , and H2020 I-REACT projects. She coordinated the international QNRF GAD project on next-generation wireless access networks (2012-2015), the international FLAG project on full-duplex radio , and the MIMOSE project on local mobile connectivity. She was also Principal Investigator for contracts between the Politecnico di Torino and ALCATEL, Telecom Italia, Magneti Marelli, INLAB, FCA, and TIM. Her research interests are mainly in the field of wireless and mobile networks. Her articles have been published in highly respected journals, and she has received several Best Paper Awards . Carla is also the co-author of six patents.