Biography

Antonello Florio was born in Bari (Italy) in 1995. He received the BSc in Computer and Automation Engineering and the MSc in Telecommunications Engineering both with honors from Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy). In 2023 he received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering from Polytechnic University of Bari. In 2019, he took part to a Double Degree program with University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) where he achieved the Master de Recherche in Ubiquitous networking and computing. In 2023 he served as Visiting Expert in the Radio Frequency Division of the European Space Agency (ESA). He is currently an Assistant Professor in Electronics at Polytechnic University of Bari.

His research interests involve:

• Theories and techniques for localization
• Phased arrays for mmWave applications
• RF and mixed-signal circuits and systems.

Here you can find a link to my PhD thesis, “Real-Time Angle-of-Arrival Estimation through phase interferometry: theory, techniques, applications, and hardware implementation” (2023).

Grants

• Currently, my research activity is supported by the European Union under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) of NextGenerationEU, partnership on “Telecommunications of the Future” (PE00000001 - program "RESTART", CUP: D93C22000910001).
• During my PhD (2020-2023), my research activity was supported through a scholarship co-funded by Regione Puglia and European Union under the program "Dottorati di Ricerca in Puglia - Ciclo XXXIII - XXXIV - XXXV" (CUP D91J20000000008).

Prizes

• Cadence Best Paper Award @ 2021 IEEE 18th International Conference on SoC (ISOCC 2021) with "A Linear Array Mutual Coupling Compensation Technique for Angle of Arrival Estimation" by A.Florio and G. Avitabile.
• Finalist of the Huawei Italy University Challenge 2021 with the project "A Full-Hardware Approach to AoA Estimation for the Green WSNs of the future".

Thesis supervision and co-supervision

Here you can find a (not frequently updated!) list of my current and previous students.

Ph.D. Students

• Stefano Lioce, Communication Assisted by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces at Millimeter Frequencies, in co-tutoring with University of Cote D'Azur-INRIA Sophia Antipolis (2024-2027)

MSc Students

• Antonio Morra, TBA, MSc in Electronics Engineering, 2024.
• Sabrina D'Aluisio, TBA, MSc in Telecommunications Engineering, 2024.
• Marco Rossano, Design and Implementation of a Multifrequency Active Transponder for Calibration of SAR satellites, MSc in Electronics Engineering, 2024.
• Stefano Lioce, System-Level Characterization of RIS-aided communications for 6G and Beyond 6G Networks, MSc in Telecommunications Engineering, 2023.
• Roberto Cancelli, Design and Prototyping of an Active Transponder operating in X Band for SAR satellites applications, MSc in Electronics Engineering, 2023.
• Pasquale Latorraca, 3D Localization System on Direct Sampling based on TDoA estimation of an OFDM Signal, MSc in Electronics Engineering, 2022.
• Alessio Di Chiaro, Design of a Ku-Band Receiver for Internet of Remote Things Applications, MSc in Electronics Engineering, 2021.

BSc Students

• Raffaele Roca, Phase Shifting Architectures for Beamforming Applications in 5G and Beyond 5G Telecommunications Systems, BSc in Telecommunications Engineering, 2024