Francesca Meneghello
Telecommunications Engineer
Assistant Professor
@ Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova (Italy)
Fulbrigh-Schuman Research Fellow
@ Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things
Northeastern University (USA)
Education and Research Experience
- Postdoctoral researcher @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova (Italy)
Project title: "Next Generations Wi-Fi Networks - New Frontiers beyond Connectivity"
- Ph.D. in Information Engineering @ University of Padova (Italy)
Graduation date: March 8, 2022
Thesis title: "Wireless Communications and Sensing - Opportunities and Challenges in Environment Aware Networks"
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Rossi
- Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering @ University of Padova (Italy)
Graduation date: September 10, 2018
Thesis title: "User Identification from Smartphone Passive Traffic Inspection"
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Rossi
Co-supervisor: Dr. Nicola Bui
- Bachelor degree in Information Engineering @ University of Padova (Italy)
Graduation date: July 18, 2016
Thesis title: "Design and Evaluation of an Anechoic Tank for Underwater Acoustic Experiments through Sound-Absorbing Material at 18-34 kHz"
Supervisor: Prof. Michele Zorzi
Co-supervisor: Dr. Filippo Campagnaro
- K. F. Haque, F. Meneghello, M. Zhang and F. Restuccia, "BeamSense: Rethinking Wireless Sensing with MU-MIMO Wi-Fi Beamforming Feedback," 2023.
- F. Meneghello, N. Dal Fabbro, D. Garlisi, I. Tinnirello and M. Rossi "A CSI Dataset for Wireless Human Sensing on 80 MHz Wi-Fi Channels," in IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023.
- F. Meneghello, C. Chen, C. Cordeiro and F. Restuccia "Toward Integrated Sensing and Communications in IEEE 802.11 bf Wi-Fi Networks," in IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023.
- C. Chen, H. Song, Q. Li, F. Meneghello, F. Restuccia and C. Cordeiro, "Wi-Fi Sensing Based on IEEE 802.11bf," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 121-127, 2023.
- G. Perin, F. Meneghello, R. Carli, L. Schenato and M. Rossi, "EASE: Energy-Aware Job Scheduling for Vehicular Edge Networks With Renewable Energy Resources," in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 339-353, 2023.
- F. Meneghello, D. Garlisi, N. Dal Fabbro, I. Tinnirello and M. Rossi, "SHARP: Environment and Person Independent Activity Recognition with Commodity IEEE 802.11 Access Points," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2022.
- I. Labriji, F. Meneghello, D. Cecchinato, S. Sesia, E. Perraud, E. Calvanese Strinati and M. Rossi, "Mobility Aware and Dynamic Migration of MEC Services for the Internet of Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol.18, no. 1, pp. 570-584, 2021.
- J. Pegoraro, F. Meneghello and M. Rossi, "Multiperson Continuous Tracking and Identification From mm-Wave Micro-Doppler Signatures," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020.
- F. Meneghello, M. Rossi and N. Bui, "Smartphone Identification via Passive Traffic Fingerprinting: A Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Approach," in IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 112-120, 2020.
- F. Meneghello, M. Calore, D. Zucchetto, M. Polese and A. Zanella, "IoT: Internet of Threats? A Survey of Practical Security Vulnerabilities in Real IoT Devices," in IEEE IoT Journal, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 8182-8201, 2019.
- F. Meneghello, F. Restuccia and M. Rossi, "DeepCSI: Rethinking Wi-Fi Radio Fingerprinting Through MU-MIMO CSI Feedback Deep Learning," in Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, Italy, July 2022.
- F. Meneghello, D. Cecchinato and M. Rossi, "Mobility Prediction via Sequential Learning for 5G Mobile Networks," in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2020.
- J. Pegoraro, D. Solimini, F. Matteo, E. Bashirov, F. Meneghello and M. Rossi, "Deep Learning for Accurate Indoor Human Tracking with a mm-Wave Radar," in Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20), Florence, Italy, Sep. 2020.
- F. Meneghello, F. Campagnaro, R. Diamant, P. Casari and M. Zorzi, "Design and evaluation of a low-cost acoustic chamber for underwater networking experiments," in Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet), Shanghai, China, Oct. 2016. - Best student paper award
- Adjunct professor @ Department of Public, International and Community Law, University of Padova
Course: Data Access and Web - Computer Networks - Bachelor in Law and Technology
Date: October 2022 - February 2023
- Adjunct professor @ Department of Public, International and Community Law, University of Padova
Course: Data Access and Web - Computer Networks - Bachelor in Law and Technology
Date: November 2021 - September 2022
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Mathematics, University of Padova
Course: Human Data Analytics - Master of Science in Data Science
Teacher: Prof. Michele Rossi
Date: October 2022 - February 2023
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Mathematics, University of Padova
Course: Human Data Analytics - Master of Science in Data Science
Teacher: Prof. Michele Rossi
Date: October 2021 - February 2021
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Course: Human Data Analytics - Master of Science in ICT for Internet and Multimedia
Teacher: Prof. Michele Rossi
Date: October 2020 - February 2021
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Mathematics, University of Padova
Course: Human Data Analytics - Master of Science in Data Science
Teacher: Prof. Michele Rossi
Date: March 2020 - July 2020
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Course: Telecommunications - Bachelor in Information Engineering
Teacher: Prof. Leonardo Badia and Prof. Roberto Corvaja
Date: March 2019 - June 2019
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Course: Telecommunications - Bachelor in Information Engineering
Teacher: Prof. Leonardo Badia and Prof. Nicola Laurenti
Date: March 2018 - June 2018
- Teaching assistant @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Course: Computer Science - Bachelor in Information Engineering
Teacher: Prof. Laura Bazzanella
Date: October 2017 - January 2018
- Smart lighting for smart cities @ BRILLIANT ClusterXchange, ELCA European Lighting Cluster Alliance
Available on: YouTube
Date: April 2021
- Winner of the Fall 2022 IEEE DataPort Dataset Upload Contest in the Machine Learning category based on unique dataset views as measured by Google Analytics and a review from a committee of IEEE volunteers, for the dataset CSI Dataset for Wireless Human Sensing on 80 MHz Wi-Fi Channels.
- Best Ph.D. thesis award @ GTTI (Gruppo Telecomunicationi e Tecnologie dell'Informazione) awards for Ph.D. Theses in the field of Communication Technologies 2022, Sept. 2022.
- Fulbright-Schuman fellowship - visiting scholar program, Jan.-June 2023 @ Northeastern University (Portland, Maine, USA). Project title: "BeWise: Beamforming Security in Next-Generation Wireless Networks".
- Young researcher travel grant @ the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, Italy, July 2022.
- Honorary mention @ IEEE ComSoc Student Competition 2019, Nov. 2019.
- Best student presentation award @ IEEE Italy Section Summer School SSIE 2019 "AI and Machine Learning for ICT Applications", Brixen, Italy, July 2019. Video of the school.
- Best student paper award @ 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems WUWNet, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2016. Paper title: "Design and evaluation of a low-cost acoustic chamber for underwater networking experiments".
francesca.meneghello.1@unipd.it
SIGNET research group - Department of Information Engineering DEI
University of Padova
Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131, Padova (Italy)