Focus Period Linköping University 2026
Full Professor
University of Pisa (Italy)
Fulvio Gini (Fellow IEEE and EURASIP) received his Doctor of Engineering (cum laude) and Research Doctorate in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Pisa, where he has been a Full Professor since 2006. Prof. Gini has served as the Deputy Head of the Department since November 2016. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) (2007-present) and the Elsevier Signal Processing journal (2006-present). Additionally, he serves as the Specialty Chief Editor for the “Radar Signal Processing” section of the journal Frontiers in Signal Processing (2021-present).
Prof. Gini has received multiple awards, including the IEEE AES Society’s Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper in 2001, 2012 and 2021, the 2020 EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE AESS Warren White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering, the 2020 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award, the 2003 IEE Achievement Award, and the 2003 IEEE AES Society Nathanson Award. He is the Treasurer of the IEEE AES Society (January 2025–present). He has been the IEEE AES Society Awards Chair (January 2019–December 2023) and has been a member of the IEEE AES Society Board of Governors (BoG) (2017-2022, 2025-2027) and the IEEE SP Society BoG (2021-2023). He also served as the EURASIP President (2013-2016). ). He was the General co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence (Italy). He was the Technical co-Chair of the 2006 EURASIP Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence (Italy), of the 2008 Radar Conference, Rome (Italy), and of the 2015 IEEE CAMSAP workshop, Cancun (Mexico). He was the General co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP2010), of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), and of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions of the workshop on Compressive Sensing in Radar (CoSeRa). He authored or co-authored 13 book chapters, 185 journal papers, 190 conference papers, and 2 national patents. H-index: 56, 12097 citations (Google Scholar).
Activities in professional societies. (List positions with dates of service)
• Member of the SPS Fellows Evaluation Committee for 2024.
• Vice-Chair of the AESS Fellows Evaluation Committee for 2021-2023.
• Member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of IEEE SPS (01/012021– 31/12/2023).
• Member of the Awards Board of the IEEE SP Society (2016–2018).
• Member of the Conference Board of SPS (2019–2020).
• Member of the Long Range Planning and Implementation Committee of IEEE SPS (2021-present).
• IEEE SPS Representative in the 2020 IEEE TAB Awards and Recognition Committee (TABARC) (2020-20222).
• Member of the IEEE SPS Conference Board Ad Hoc Committee on Flagship Conferences Future Strategy (2020).
• IEEE SPS Representative in the Steering Committee of the journal IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (2021-present).
• IEEE SPS representative for the Division IX Initiative: Quality of Life (2014).
• Member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of IEEE AESS (2017-2022).
• Awards Chair of IEEE AESS (2019–present).
• Member of the Conference Board of IEEE AESS (2017-2021, 2025-present).
• Member of the Publication Board of IEEE AESS (2017-2021).
• President of the EURASIP Society (2013-2016).
• Award Chairman of the EURASIP Society (2004-2012).
• Member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the EURASIP Society (2004-2018).
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2000-2006).
• Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2016-2017)