Piero Malcovati

Associate Professor

Sensors and Microsystems Laboratory
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering
University of Pavia

Piero Malcovati

Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Born in Milan on May 17th 1968.

Resident in Viale Indipendenza 58, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

Degrees Laurea summa cum laude in Electronics Engineering from University of Pavia on January 30th 1992.

Ph. D. in Technical Sciences from ETH Zurich, Switzerland on January 24th, 1996, with the thesis "CMOS Thermoelectric Sensor Interfaces", Tutor Prof. Dr. H. Baltes, Coreferent Prof. F. Maloberti.

Present position: Associate Professor at University of Pavia, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering since January 1st 2002.

Former positions: Research assistant of Prof. Dr. H. Baltes at the Physical Electronics Laboratory of ETH Zurich, Switzerland form October 5th 1992 to June 24th 1996; Assistant Professor at University of Pavia, Department of Electrical Engineering from June 25th 1996 to December 31st 2001.

Scientific Activities

The scientific activity of Piero Malcovati is concentrated in the field of analog, digital and mixed analog/digital integrated circuits and systems for signal processing and measuring systems. In particular the activity is focused on design and characterization of interface circuits for microsensors, data converters and telecommunications circuits. The scientific activity of Piero Malcovati led to the following publications:

  • 1 Ph. D. thesis
  • 21 Book chapters
  • 63 Journal papers
  • 227 Conference Papers
  • 5 Patents

Research Activities

The research activity of Piero Malcovati is focused on the following research lines:

  1. Analog and mixed analog-digital integrated circuits
    • Amplifiers
    • Filters
    • Low-power, low-voltage integrated circuits
    • DC-DC converters and power management circuits
  2. Integrated microsystems
    • Mixed analog-digital integrated interface circuits for microsensors
    • Microsystems for energy scavenging
  3. Data converters
    • Nyquist rate A/D converters
    • Oversampled A/D converters
    • D/A converters
    • Data converter modeling

Other Scientific Activities

Piero Malcovati coordinated technically and administratively a number of national and international research projects. In particular he was involved in the management of several European Commission (NETCARITY, GOSPEL, MagIC, ABACUS, IASY, BRA3SIC), MEDEA (KEOPE, Anastasia, Anastasia+), PRIN, and FIRB projects.

Piero Malcovati is Senior Member of IEEE.

Moreover, Piero Malcovati has been selected for the following scientific assignments:

  • Guest Editor of the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing for the Special Issue on the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems 1999 (ICECS '99), published in vol. 27, April 2001.
  • Special Session Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS '01), St. Juliens, Malta, September 2001.
  • Secretary of the Technical Program Committee of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC '02), Florence, Italy, September 2002.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) since 2002.
  • Member of the Steering Committee and of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) since 2002.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference since 2003.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) Conference since 2004.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL) since 2004.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers from 2004 to 2007.
  • Technical Program Chairman of the IEEE Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME '06) Conference, Otranto, Italy, June 2006.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Sensors Conference (SENSORS) since 2007.
  • Regional Editor for Europe of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers since 2007.
  • Co-recipient of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) Best Paper Award in 2007.
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II from 2008 to 2010.
  • Tutorial Chairman of the IEEE Sensors Conference (SENSORS '08), Lecce, Italy, October 2008
  • Technical Program Co-Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS '09), Hammamet, Tunisia, December 2009.
  • Guest Editor of the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing for the Special Issue on the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems 2009 (ICECS '09), published in vol. 73, October 2012.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) since 2012.
  • Mixed-Signal Letter Editor for the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing since 2013.
  • Technical Program Chairman of the IEEE Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME '13) Conference, Villach, Austria, June 2013.
  • Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits for the Special Issues on the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC '13).

Publications