Luca Mottola is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His lab develops new technologies at the frontier of Internet of Things, including mobile embedded computing, intermittent computing, nanosatellites, and Internet-connected robotics.
These technologies have been downloaded 10,000+ times, have been used by half a dozen companies to create new products, and are currently running in hundreds of embedded devices around the world. To date, Luca Mottola is the only European researcher to be granted multiple times with the ACM SigMobile Research Highlight and to ever win Best Paper Awards at multiple flagship conferences of both ACM SigMobile and ACM SigBed.
He is past General Chair for ACM/IEEE CPS-IoT Week 2022 (flagship event in Cyberphysical Systems and Internet of Things) and past PC chair for ACM MOBISYS, ACM SENSYS (youngest to date), ACM/IEEE IPSN (youngest to date), and ACM EWSN. He received the ACM SENSYS Test of Time Award in 2022, is a Google Faculty Award winner, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Elsevier Computer Networks. He holds or held visiting positions at RI.SE Sweden, Uppsala University, NXP Technologies, TU Graz, and USI Lugano.