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Marco Cecchi
CURRICULUM VITÆ ET STUDIORUM


BASIC PERSONAL INFORMATION

Addresses:
M. Montessori, Misano Adriatico, 7/B
M. Moretti, 4 - RIMINI

Contacts
Personal phone : +39 339 8317544
E-mails : -


EDUCATION
– Master Degree in Computer Science (italian `Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione`), Università degli studi di Bologna (103/110).

– Italian `Diploma di maturita' scientifica` (BS) - Liceo Scientifico - “A. Einstein” in Rimini (60/60).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English:
– Fluent spoken and good written. Scientific publications and public presentations at workshops, talks and meetings. (Upper intermediate & advanced courses - British school).

French:
– Scholastic (8 years). Good written, decent spoken.


SCIENTIFIC IN-DEPTH

Modern techniques for signal processing: Wavelet Analysis (continuous and discrete),
Karhunen-Loeve transform (PCA), Hough transform, Wigner-Ville distribution.
AI techniques: Fuzzy Logic (cited on a book and author of the first effective application
of fuzzy logic in the italian industry), Artificial Neural Networks.

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Programming languages: C++ (deeply STL & boost) under Linux and Windows, Bash scripting, JAVA, Perl, Matlab, Visual Basic.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Since the very beginning...
Italian Physics Olympics (high-school): final stage in Viareggio (PI).

Post-lauream...
Research activity at the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/National Institute for Nuclear Physics) in Bologna. Design and realization, using AI techniques (in
particular fuzzy logic), of pattern-recognition algorithms for high-energy physics (5th group ‘fuzzy’ - INFN).

On the 'field'...
Supervision and control systems for woodworking machinery (Partners & Customers). Software for accounting. As a freelance and as an employee. ESA Software srl – Rimini. This is a major italian company for IT. Senior software Engineer/Project Manager.

Scientific activities
Scientific consultant for S.F.I.R. s.p.a. (a sugar manufacturing industry): Design of fuzzy logic algorithms for sugar extraction from beets. Feasibility and development
of a knowledge based decision support system that then led to the first realization of an
automated intelligent control system in the italian industry.

Researcher at the Radioastronomy Institute / National Research Council (C.N.R.). 18 months at contract plus 1 year as a freelance. Recruited in order to accomplish an analytic and compared study about modern spectral techniques in the field of digital signal processing to face the problem of software post-processing for radio-interference detection and mitigation (European program “Enhancing the European VLBI Network of Radio Astronomy” - contract: FMGE-CT98-0101). Realizing two spectrometer monitoring systems (“Sentinel 1” and “Sentinel 2”) embedded into DSP boards (TI C62) and controlled by a PC host, heading a team of students, supervising diplomas, showing the project in workshops and conferences (Bologna, Bonn and Manchester), writing documentation, reports and papers, actively partecipating, as a parallel task, to the SETI program (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) working on pattern-recognition algorithms for the SERENDIP IV high resolution spectrometer.

INAF (National Institute for Astrophysics) senior software engineer: design and study of advanced signal processing techniques for SETI.

Technologist at INFN/CNAF. EGEE project: design, development and analysis for the
gLite Workload Management System.


PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

Thesis:
Progettazione, simulazione e test di un processore CMOS VLSI in logica fuzzy
(Design, simulation and test of a CMOS VLSI fuzzy logic processor) - Marco Cecchi,
tesi di Laurea, relatore Chiar.mo Prof. Massimo Masetti (Università di Bologna – Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare).

BOOK
A. Gabrielli E. Gandolfi M. Masetti M. Spotti I. D'Antone M. Cecchi M. Russo - Design
and Realization of a 50 MFIPS Fuzzy Processor in 1.0 micron CMOS VLSI
Technology (Top 14 selected paper) - Advances in Fuzzy Theory and Technology 1995
edited by Paul Wang Duke University Volume III pag. 327 - 340, ISBN: 0964345617

Sentinel 1: an automated system for Microwave RFI Monitoring at
radioastornomical sites – K. Jiricka, S, Montebugnoli, M, Cecchi, C. Bortolotti, M.
Roma, 10th Conference on Microwave Techniques COMITEE 1999, Czeck Section
IEEE MTT/AP/ED Chapter, University of Pardubic, Radioengineering Society.
SALVE Software AImed at Off Line Verification Eti for Serendip IV data- J.
Monari, S. Montebugnoli, F. Ravaglia, M. Cecchi, Biastronomy 99 " A new era in the
search for life in the universe", Hapuna Beach P.H Kohala Coast, Hawaii.
SETItalia - S. Montebugnoli, J. Monari, A. Orfei, G. Maccaferri, A. Maccaferri, S.
Mariotti, N. D'Amico,A. Scalambra, F. Ravaglia, M. Cecchi, Biastronomy 99 " A new
era in the search for life in the universe", Hapuna Beach P.H Kohala Coast, Hawaii.
RFI Sentinel 2 System - C. Bortolotti, M. Cecchi , S. Mariotti , S. Montebugnoli, M.
Roma, IAU 196 Conference, United Nation, Vienna, Austria.
Analizzatori di spettro per applicazioni radioastronomiche basati su personal
computer: approccio FFT e Wavelet (Personal Computer based spectra analyzers for
radioastronomy: FFT and Wavelet approach) – Correlatore tesi di Laurea in Ingegneria
Elettronica di Claudio Guidi.

List of the technical reports at the National Radiostronomy Institute (IRA).
(http://www.ira.cnr.it/library/ira.rapporti).
Sviluppo di software per uno spettrometro digitale di segnali radio basato su scheda
DSP C62 - S. Montebugnoli, M. Cecchi, J. Monari, E. Spisni - IRA 284/99.
Sentinel 2: sistema per il monitoraggio delle radio-interferenze - C. Bortolotti, M.
Cecchi, S. Montebugnoli, M. Roma - IRA 294/00.
Analisi comparata di metodi di elaborazione digitale del segnale finalizzata al
trattamento di dati di origine radioastronomica - M. Cecchi - IRA 297/00.
Spettrometro ad altissima risoluzione Serendip IV: algoritmi di mitigazione delle
interferenze e software di post elaborazione - J. Monari, M. Cecchi, S. Montebugnoli, A.
Orlati - IRA 299/00.
Overview of modern spectral techniques for interference mitigation and S/N
enhancement in radioastronomy M. Cecchi, S. Montebugnoli - IRA 301/00.
L'apparato ricevente del Sistema Sentinel 2 - C. Bortolotti, M. Roma, M. Cecchi, S.
Montebugnoli - IRA 324/02.
Il convertitore in banda-base del Sistema Sentinel 2 - C. Bortolotti, M. Roma, M.
Cecchi, S. Montebugnoli - IRA 328/02.

57th IAC congress, Valencia, Spain - October 02-06, 2006
International Astronautical Federation
SETI'at'GRID: exploiting computational grids to boost SETI data analysis - M.
Cecchi, J. Monari

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