Cristian Cassella

Cristian Cassella is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Northeastern University, Boston (USA). He received his B.S.E. and M.Sc., with honors, at University of Rome – Torvergata in 2006 and 2009, respectively. In 2011, he was a visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania. In 2012 he entered a Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University which he completed in 2015. In 2015 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University. In 2016, he became Associate Research Scientist. He is author of 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Two of his peer-reviewed journal papers published on the IEEE Journal of MicroElectroMechanical systems (JMEMS) were selected as papers of excellent quality (JMEMS RightNowPapers), hence being released as open-access. One of his journal papers was chosen as the cover for the Nature Nanotechnology October 2017 issue. Another one of his journal papers was selected as a featured article by the Applied Physics Letters magazine. He won the best paper award as a student at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (2013). Two of his advised students won the best paper award at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (2021 and 2022). In 2018, he was awarded by the European Community (EU) the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2021, he was recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He holds five patents and four patent applications in the area of remote sensing, acoustic resonators and RF systems. He is a technical reviewer for several journals, such as Applied Physics Letter, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasound, Ferroelectric and Frequency Control, IEEE Journal of MicroElectroMechanical devices, IEEE Electron Device Letter, Journal of Micromachine and Micro-Engineering, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Sensors Letter and Review of Scientific Instruments.