On Research Reproducibility: An interview with Gianluca Setti [Turning Point]

192 • IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE • SEpTEMBER 2015 G ianluca Setti (GS) is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he teaches circuit theory, analog electronics, and statistical signal processing. He has held several positions as a visiting professor/ scientist, such as at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2002, 2005); the University of California, San Diego (2004); IBM T.J. Watson Laboratories (2004, 2007); and the University of Washington, Seattle (2008, 2010). He is also a permanent faculty member of Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems (ARCES), University of Bologna. His research interests include nonlinear circuits, implementation and application of chaotic circuits and systems, statistical signal processing and compressive sensing, electromagnetic compatibility, and biomedical circuits and systems. Dr. Setti received the 2013 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Meritorious Service Award, the 2004 IEEE CASS Darlington Award, and the 2013 IEEE CASS Guillemin-Cauer Award as well as the best paper award at the 2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD 2005) and the best student paper award at the 16th International Zurich Symposium and Technical Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCZurich 2005) and at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2011). He has also held several editorial positions for the IEEE, including editor-inchief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part II (2006–2007) and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part I (2008–2009); he served as a member of the editorial board of IEEE Access (2013–2015) and Proceedings of the IEEE (since 2015). He also served as the 2010 CASS president, and, in 2013–2014, he was the first IEEE Vice President for Publication Services and Products from outside North America. Dr. Setti was the technical program cochair of Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES 2000) (Catania, Italy), ISCAS 2007 (New Orleans, Louisiana), ISCAS 2008 (Seattle, Washington), IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2012) (Seville, Spain), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2013) (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) as well as the general cochair of the International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 2006) (Bologna, Italy).