Luca LEONARDI

Education and Training

• 2020: PhD in Systems, Energy, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Catania.
• 2016: Master Degree in Computer Engineering (LM-32) from the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, 110/110 cum laude.
• 2013: Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering (L-8) from the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, 110/110 cum laude.

Research and Teaching Activities

• 01/03/2023 - Present: Assistant Professor (RTDa)  at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, SSD IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering).
• 2020 - 2023: Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, SSD IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering).
• From 14/09/2018 to 16/03/2019: Visiting PhD Student at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.
• Participation in several national and international research projects, including Mediwarn (Interreg Italy-Malta), SPHERE (PRIN), etc.
• Co-author of more than 40 scientific publications in international conferences and international peer-reviewed journals.

International Scientific Roles

• Work in Progress Chair, 31st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2026), Västerås, Sweden, September 2026.
• Work in Progress Chair, 30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2025), Porto, Portugal, September 2025.
• Publication Chair, 22nd International IEEE Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2026), Offenburg, Germany, April 21–24, 2026.
• Special Session Chair, 19th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2023), Pavia, Italy, April 2023.
• Track Chair of Track 8 – “Advanced Sensing Technologies in the Industrial Internet of Things Era”, 29th IEEE Annual Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2024), Padua, Italy, September 2024.
• Track Chair of the “Management and Ecosystems” Track, 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2023), Wuhan, China, May 2023.
• Track Chair of the “Management and Ecosystems” Track, 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2022), Coventry, United Kingdom, May 2022.
• Track Chair of the “Cloud & Networked Systems” Track, 31st IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2022), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 2022.
• Track Chair of Session 2.8 “Augmented Reality-Based and Virtual Reality”, a subtrack of Track 2 “Smart Industry”, 21st IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON 2022), Palermo, Italy, June 2022.
• Publicity Chair, 28th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, September 2023.
• Publicity Chair, 27th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, September 2022.
• Publicity Chair, 26th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), Västerås, Sweden, September 2021.
• Publicity Chair, 25th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2020), Vienna, Austria, September 2020.
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee, 5th Italian Workshop on Embedded Systems (IWES 2020), Catania, Italy.
• Member of the Technical Committees of several international conferences: IEEE ETFA (2020–2026), IEEE WFCS 2025, IEEE INDIN 2021, IFIP/IEEE PEMWN (2021, 2022).
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.
• Member of the Technical Committee of the international peer-reviewed Elsevier journal Computer Communications.
• Reviewer for international scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, IEEE Access, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Networking Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
• Member of the Factory Automation Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and member of Subcommittee FA7: In-Vehicle Embedded Systems of the same Technical Committee.

Last edit: 09/30/2026