Gianluca Setti (Fellow, IEEE) received a Dr. Eng. degree (honors) and a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, in 1992 and in 1997. From 1997 to 2017 he was with the School of Engineering, University of Ferrara (IT), from 2017 to 2022 he was with Politecnico di Torino (IT) and since November 2022 he is the Dean of the Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Faculty and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA.
He was Visiting Professor/Scientist at EPFL (2002,2005), UCSD (2004), IBM (2004,2007) and at the University of Washington (2008,2010). He (co-)authored over 300 journal/conference papers. Dr. Setti is (co)recipient of the IEEE CASS Darlington Award (2004), Guillemin-Cauer Award (2013), Meritorious Service Award (2013), IEEE TBioCAS best paper award (2019), best (student) paper award at ECCTD2006, EMCZurich2005, IEEE ISCAS2011, IEEE EMCCOMPO2019 IEEE PRIME2019. He is/has been consulting for several companies including STMicroelectonics, National Semiconductors, TI and Analog Devices.
He has also a considerable experience in research evaluation, having served as member/chair (2012-2013/2015-2016) of the Industrial and Information Engineering Panel of the Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VQR).