Personale docente

Guido Matrella is an Associate Professor of Electronics at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma. His scientific and professional activity focuses on digital electronics, embedded architectures, and Internet of Things technologies, with applications ranging from advanced sensing to assistive technologies, industrial automation, and intelligent systems for health and well-being.

After earning his degree in Electronic Engineering (1999) and his PhD in Information Technologies (2003), he contributed to the development of CMOS radiation sensors for high-energy physics, in collaboration with INFN Perugia and CERN Geneva (RAPS and SHARPS projects). This early experience in microelectronic design laid the foundation for a research trajectory that progressively expanded toward complex digital systems and distributed sensor networks.

Since 2003, he has been designing automation and monitoring systems based on environmental sensors and embedded devices, with particular attention to assistive and home-care applications. He conceived and subsequently evolved the CARDEA platform, one of Italy’s first home-automation systems dedicated to assistive living, which later developed into a complete IoT ecosystem featuring cloud architectures, wireless sensors, and data-analysis techniques based on machine learning for behavioral recognition, early anomaly detection, and non-invasive monitoring of vital parameters.

He has held significant roles in numerous European and national projects, covering scientific leadership, technical coordination, project management, and supervision of large-scale experimental activities. Key projects include: ACTIVAGE (H2020 – Large Scale Pilot), where he served first as Task Manager and then as Principal Investigator; NOAH (AAL Joint Programme), which he coordinated at the European level; ENSAFE, HELICOPTER, FOOD, and AALISABETH, focused on IoT technologies for active ageing, health, and behavioral monitoring; PLEINAIR, dedicated to the development of smart parks with interactive outdoor objects; DARE (PNRR), on digital technologies for health prevention; GREATER (Erasmus+), centered on IoT-based energy management in Rwanda.

Alongside his research activity, Matrella is strongly engaged in third-mission initiatives and technology transfer. He co-founded two academic spin-offs (SiliS and I-Cubo), coordinated long-term collaborations with companies and local stakeholders and led the establishment of the University of Parma’s Digital Fabrication Laboratory, dedicated to additive manufacturing and innovative processes for electronic prototyping. He has also contributed to the design and implementation of embedded systems for machine vision, agri-food sorting, and automotive applications, collaborating with several national and international companies.

In the educational domain, he has over twenty years of university teaching experience in core courses in electronics and embedded systems, including “Embedded Systems Electronics,” “Electronics for Industrial Automation,” and multiple laboratory courses on digital electronics, FPGA design, IoT systems, and hardware/software co-design. Student OPIS evaluations consistently show appreciation well above average. He has also taught in professional training programs, master courses, and doctoral schools, and he has played a key role in outreach and orientation activities for high-school students, serving in formal coordination roles for ASL/PCTO programs and, more recently, for Job Placement and internships within the Department.

He is the author or co-author of more than fifty scientific publications in international conferences and journals. His interdisciplinary expertise integrates electronic design, embedded systems, advanced sensing, IoT ecosystems, machine vision, data-analysis algorithms, and artificial intelligence techniques applied to real-world contexts of assistance, monitoring, and automation.