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Curriculum

Gian Domenico LICCIARDO Curriculum

Webpage: http://docenti.unisa.it/020369/home

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1913-4928

Scopus Author ID: 57191366650

Education and Current Position

  • Electronic Engineering Master Degree from the University of Naples, “Federico II”, in 2002
  • D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2006 with a dissertation on “A new measurement technique of the carrier lifetime profile in semiconductor layers”.
  • Assistant Professor in Electronic at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno from 2007.
  • Associate Professor of Electronic at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno from 2018.

Research interests

His current research interests follow two macro-topics:

  • Design of VLSI systems for ASIC and FPGA platforms;
  • Modeling and characterization of semiconductor power dev

In the following a selection of the main research topics is reported.

Selected Research highlights:

  • Design of VLSI systems:
    • Low precision, Quantized Neural Networks
    • Low-power Artificial Neural Networks
    • Design of a H.264 video encoder for SPEAr STM reconfigurable processor;
    • Frame buffer-less stream processor for accurate real-time interest point detection;
    • Multiplier-less Stream Processor for 2D Filtering in Visual Search Applications;
    • Design of an offset-tolerant voltage sense amplifier bit-line sensing circuit for SRAM memories;

Patents on related activity

  • Patent: Hardware coprocessor for stripe-based interest point detectio US20130301930 A1;
  • Patent: Multiplier-less coprocessor for difference of Gaussian (DOG) calculation. US20130301950 A
  • Design and Modeling of 4H-SiC Power Devices:
    • Modeling of the static and switching behavior of Vertical DMOSFET in 4H-SiC in presence of SiO2/SiC Interface-Trapped Charge;
    • Optimized Design for 4H-SiC Power DMOSFET;
    • Analytical Model of the Forward Operation of 4H-SiC Vertical DMOSFET in the Safe Operating Temperature Range;

Characterization of Power Semiconductor Devices:

    • New devices for smart sensors;
    • An Analog Circuit for Accurate OCVD Measurements;
    • Electrical Measurement Techniques for ambipolar lifetime and mobility measurements in Silicon epitaxial lay

Coordination and participations in research groups and projects

  • Coordinator of the scientific activities in the field of Digital Electronic at University of Salern
  • Participations in the research activities of the following research groups:
    • STMicroelectronics-Computer Peripheral Group-Computer Systems Division;
    • ENEA – Research Center, Italia;
    • Advanced System Technology (AST)-STMicroelectronics International
    • International Standard Committee MPEG -- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 Coding of Moving Pictures and Au
    • Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology, Erlangen, German
  • Treasurer of the IEEE Electron Device of Central & Southern Italy;
  • Coordinator of the IEEE Student Branch at University of Salerno
  • Member of REPRISE for the Evaluation of National Research Projects
  • Project: ReLighfor the design of Organic LED;
  • EUROPRACTICE STIMULATION PROGRAMS for FIRST USERS of chip design in standard IC and advanced IC technologies;
  • Project: Sviluppo ed Industrializzazione di sistemi a RF e finestre elettromagnetiche (SIRena)
    • Partners: MDBA Italia s.p.a., Fox bit s.r.l.

Evaluator Activity:

  • PRIN Project evaluator
  • FISR Project Evaluator
  • VQR evaluator

Teaching activity from 2006 to present:

  • VLSI Systems ( 5 credits) for the BS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Laboratory of Electronics (3 credits) for the BS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Analog Electronic (6 credits) for the BS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Digital Electronic (3 credits) for the BS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Digital Electronic Systems (9 credits) for the MS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Analog Electronic Systems (3 credits) for the MS curriculum in Electrical Engineering;
  • Electronic Systems for Industry (6 credits) for the MS curriculum in Smart Industry Engineering
  • Digital Technologies (3 credits) for the BS curriculum in Information Engineering

Activity in International Journals

He is associate editor of the following Journals:

  • IEEE Access.
  • Journal of Real-time Image Processing from Springer.
  • MDPI Sensors (Topic Board)
  • Electronics and Electrical Engineering, from AIMS Press.
  • International Journal of Industrial and Operations Research, from Vibgyor Publisher.
  • The Open Signal Processing Journal, from Bentham Open.
  • Inventions and Innovations in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Unique PubInternatinal (UPI);
  • Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation from Gavin Publishers;

He regularly serves as reviewer for the following Journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices;
  • IEEE Electron Device Letters;
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Solid-State Electronics (Elsevier)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Regular e Express briefs
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Springer)
  • Integration, the VLSI Journal (Elsevier)
  • Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (Springer)
  • IET Image Processing
  • Springer: Intelligent Industrial Systems;
  • World Scientific: Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers;