Carlo Alberto Boano

Short Bio

Carlo Alberto Boano is a 27 years old Ph.D. student at the Institute of Computer Engineering at the University of Lübeck, working in the area of wireless sensor networks and embedded systems. He completed a double Master of Science at Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) and KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2009 with maximum grades. His Master's Thesis, carried out at Saab and at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) was awarded the 2009 Bengt Asker Award for the best Swedish real-time Master’s Thesis and the 2010 EWSN/CONET Award for the best Industrial Master’s Thesis in the area of Cooperating Objects.
After graduation, he worked for a few month as a researcher in Thiemo Voigt's group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Since June 2009 he is a research assistant in the Institute of Computer Engineering at the University of Lübeck, where he is pursuing his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kay Römer.
Carlo Alberto's current research focus is on interference mitigation in low-power radios, link quality estimation, and body sensor networks applications for medical research.