Prof. Gianluca Setti
ENERCOMP Steering Committee Member
Professor Gianluca Setti is the current Dean of the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division.
He joined KAUST in 2022 from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where is served as Associate Chair for Research and Professor of Electronics for Signal and Data Processing. He also served as the Rector’s Delegate on Research Quality Evaluation.
Dr. Setti was the first serving non-US Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the IEEE, the flagship journal of the Institute, a role he has held from 2019 to 2024. He also held the IEEE Vice Presidency for Publication Services and Products for two terms. During this period, he ensured ethics in using bibliometric indicators for evaluating the impact of individual scientists' research. Additionally, he served on IEEE's board of directors, where he addressed the impact of open access mandates on the IEEE research community.
Awards
Caianiello best Italian Ph.D. thesis Award on Neural Networks, Italian Society for Neural Network (Siren), 1998
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Meritorious Service Award, 2013
IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer, 2004-2005 and 2015- 2016
Best Paper Awards in three different IEEE Transactions, 2003, 2013, 2019
Six Best Paper Awards or Nominations at major conferences
Research Interest
The nature of Setti's research interests and approaches is multidisciplinary: they include nonlinear circuits, statistical signal processing, electromagnetic compatibility, compressive sensing, biomedical circuits and systems, power electronics, design and implementation of IoT nodes, as well as machine learning techniques for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.