ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi Receives the 2015 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi has been awarded the 2015 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award, “For outstanding contributions to novel multi-functional piezoelectric micro and nano electro mechanical resonant sensors.”
The IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award is given annually to promote, recognize, and support outstanding contributions from young professional members within the fields of interest of the IEEE Sensors Council.
The award was presented to Professor Rinaldi on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at the IEEE Sensors 2015 Conference Awards Luncheon in Busan, Korea.
Professor Rinaldi’s research focuses on understanding and exploiting the fundamental properties of micro/nanomechanical structures and advanced nanomaterials to engineer new classes of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) with unique and enabling features applied to the areas of chemical, physical and biological sensing and low power reconfigurable radio communication systems. In particular, his group has been actively working on experimental research topics and practical applications to ultra-low power MEMS/NEMS sensors (infrared, magnetic, chemical and biological), plasmonic micro and nano electromechanical devices, medical micro systems and implantable micro devices for intra-body networks, reconfigurable radio frequency devices and systems, phase change material switches, 2D material enabled micro and nano mechanical devices.
The research in Dr. Rinaldi’s group is supported by several Federal grants (including DARPA, NSF, DHS) and the Keck Foundation.
Dr. Rinaldi was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2014 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award class of 2012. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2009, 2011 and 2015 (with his student) IEEE International Frequency Control Symposiums and the Outstanding Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers 2015 (with his student).