Curriculum vitae of Davide
Falchieri
Private data:
Name and Surname: Davide Falchieri
Date of Birth: 27/10/1973
Place of Birth: Bologna
Town: Anzola Emilia (BO)
ZIP code :
40011
Address:
1/C Bosi street
Phone number : +39-051-2095077
Fax number : +39-051-2095297
Sex: male
Own car:
yes
National Service: completed
Age: 36
years old
General Certificate of Education: Scientific Secondary School
date: 13/7/1992
final mark: 60/60
where: Liceo Scientifico Statale
Augusto Righi in Bologna
Degree: in Physics, School of Electronics & Cybernetics
date: 13/6/1997
final mark: 110/110 "summa
cum laude"
where: Bologna University
title of the degree:
Design and Realisation of a Fast Fuzzy Processor with Two
Inputs and One Output beginning from its VHDL description down to the final
layout.
PhD: in Physics
date: 15/3/2002
where: Bologna
University
title of the degree:
Hardware implementation of data compression algorithms
in the ALICE experiment
Courses attended:
· "ASIC design using Synopsys", IMEC, 26-31 March
1998, Bruxelles, Belgium
· "Design Techniques for Low Power Digital Circuits and Systems",
Europractice, TBPS Course, 26-27 November 1998, Turin
· "Advanced Chip Synthesis" training course, Synopsys,
21-25 January 2001, Milan
· "C5000 1 Day Workshop" training course, Texas
Instruments, 5 April 2001, Milan
· "Advanced FPGA Implementation" training course,
Xilinx, 17-18 December 2002, Dublin, Ireland
·
"An introduction to Labview" training course,
National Instruments, 25-26 May 2004, Bologna
·
“Simulink for dynamic system and algorithm modelling”,
The Mathworks, 14-15 November 2007, Torino
·
“Quark Matter Italia”, Istituto Superiore
di Sanita’, 22-24 April 2009, Rome
Technical skills:
Known languages: Italian, English
English: spoken:
good;
written: very
good.
Computer knowledge:
operating systems:
o UNIX (at the level of
System Manager with the operating system Solaris 8);
§
Windows XP, Vista
programming languages:
§
FORTRAN, C, HTML
application software:
§
Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
graphics:
§
Corel Draw, Corel Photo Paint
Working experiences:
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Part-time job from 1/1/1995 to 1/1/1997 as teacher assistant in the Laboratory of
Experimentations of Physics Part I attended by the students of the First Year
Academic Course in Physics of the University of Bologna. The laboratory is
comprehensive of general experiments of Physics and computer exercises using
the FORTRAN language.
§
Job as an associated academic technician in the Fuzzy Logic
& VLSI Research Group of INFN Bologna and the Department of Physics of
Bologna University from 1997 to 1999. I have collaborated in the complete
design of a family of Fast Fuzzy Processors in technology CMOS VLSI 0.7 and
0.35 microns that are going to be used in High Energy Physics Experiments
(ALICE project).
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PhD student at the University of Bologna
from 1999.
§
Technical assistant at the Physics Department at
the University of Bologna from July 2000.
Here
follow some publications of mine related to the activity described of academic
technician and PhD student taken from international proceedings regarding
conferences and workshops:
1) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti
"Very Fast VLSI Fuzzy Processor : 2 inputs 1
output"
EMAC 97, European
Microelectronics Conference, Barcelona, 28-30 May 1997, pages 66-69.
2) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti
"Design of a Fast Fuzzy Processor beginning
with its VHDL description"
IFSA 97, Seventh
International Fuzzy System Association World Congress, Prague, 25-29 June 1997,
pages 376-380, Volume IV.
3) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti
" VLSI Realisation of Two Fuzzy Chips Running
at a Rate less than 300 ns"
NAFIPS
97,
1997 IEEE North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, Syracuse, New
York, U.S.A., 21-24 September 1997, pages 329-334.
4) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti, M. Russo
" 10 Input Fuzzy Processor VLSI Architecture
designed for a Genetic Fuzzy Rule Generator"
WAC '98, 1998 World
Automation Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A., May 1998, pages 733-738.
5) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti
"Design of Very High Speed CMOS Fuzzy Processors
for Applications in High Energy Physics Experiments"
MicroNeuro
'99,
Seventh International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy, and
Bio-Inspired Systems, Granada, Spain, 7-9 April 1999, pages 284-291.
6) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi, M.Masetti
"A two input fuzzy chip running at a processing
rate of 30 nanosecond realized in 0.35 micron CMOS technology"
CSCC
'99,
Third World Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers,
Athens, Greece, 4-8 July 1999, pages 203-210.
7) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
"Applications to High Energy Physics Experiments
of a Fast Rate 2-Input VLSI Fuzzy Processor"
Smart
Engineering System Design, Vol.2, pp. 229-240, 2000 OPA (Overseas Publishers
Association) N. V., Published by license under the Gordon and Breach Science
Publishers imprint, Printed in Malaysia.
8) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
"A Digital Fuzzy Processor for Fuzzy-Rule-Based
Systems"
Hardware
Implementation of Intelligent Systems, pp. 147-164, Physica-Verlag,
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Lakhmi C. Jain, Abraham Kandel Editors, 2001,
Hardware Implementation of Intelligent Systems; Series: Studies in Fuzzyness
and soft Computing, Vol. 74 ISBN 3-7908-1399-0
9) Technical Design Report ALICE Inner Tracking System - CERN/LHCC
99-12 ALICE TDR 4 http://www.cern.ch/Alice/TDR - 18 June 1999 - Nuclear Physics
B, Proceedings Supplements, June 2000, vol 87, no. 1, pp 433-435(3) - Elsevier
Science
10) CERN-ALICE-PUB-99-09 . (CERN-ALI-99-09). - The Silicon Drift
Detector readout scheme for the Inner Tracking System of the ALICE Experiment by
Mazza, G; et al. 1999. - 14th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions Turin, Italy ; - 10 - 15 May 1999 Publ. in:
Proceedings L Riccati, M Masera and E Vercellin - Nuclear Physics A, vol. 661
no. 1999 pp. 694c-697c( 4) - Elsevier Science
11) CERN-ALICE-PUB-99-19. (CERN-ALI-99-19). - Recent Developments on
the Silicon Drift Detector readout scheme for the ALICE Inner Tracking System by
Mazza, G; et al. 18 May 1999. - 5th Conference on Electronics for LHC
Experiments Snowmass, CO, USA ; - 20-24 Sep 1999 Publ. in: Proceedings C
Decosse CERN, Geneva, 1999 - CERN-99-09
12) CERN-ALICE-PUB-2000-09 . (CERN-ALI-00-09). - Test results of the
ALICE electronic readout prototypes by Mazza, G; et al. 5 May 2000. - LEB
2000, 6th Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments, Cracow, Poland - 11-15
Sep 2000
13) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Very fast rate 2-input fuzzy processor for
high energy physics"
Fuzzy
Sets and Systems, November 2002, Volume/Issue 132/2 pp. 261-272.
14) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gando lfi
" Realization and Test of a 0.25 micron
Rad-Hard chip for ALICE ITS Data Acquisition Chain"
LECC'02, 8th Workshop on
Electronics for LHC Experiments, Colmar, France, September 9-13 2002.
15) ALICE CERN Internal note - ALICE-INT-2002-024 - The
successful connection to the ALICE DDL of the rad-hard ASIC CARLOS-v2 belonging
to the SDD readout chain - PDF file available
16) D.Falchieri, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Design and fabrication of a 0.25 micron
rad-hard ASIC for ALICE ITS data acquisition system"
Nuclear
Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors
and Associated Equipment, Volume 514, Issues 1-3, 21 November 2003, Pages
106-111. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Radiation Effects
on Semiconductor Materials, Detectors and Devices (RESMDD'02), Florence, Italy,
July 10-12 2002 - Edited by E. Borchi, M. Bruzzi.
17) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Design, Realization and Test of a Rad-Hard
2D-compressor and Packing Chip for High Energy Physics Experiments"
Nuclear
Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A: Accelerators, Spectrometers,
Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 530, Issues 1-3, 9 June 2004, Pages
92-97. RD03 6th International Conference on Large Scale Applications and
Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor Detectors, Florence, Italy, September
29 - October 1 2003.
18) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Design, Realization and Test of a Digital
Chip for ALICE ITS Experiment"
NSS03
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 19-25 October
2003, Portland, Oregon
19) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, A.Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" A rad-hard 2D-compressor ASIC for ALICE SDD
experiment"
Nuclear
Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A: Accelerators, Spectrometers,
Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 524, Issues 1-3, 21 May 2004, pages
295-305.
20) D.Falchieri, E.Gandolfi, M. Masotti
" Evaluation of a wavelet - based compression
algorithm applied to the silicon drift detectors data of the ALICE experiment
at CERN"
Nuclear
Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A: Accelerators, Spectrometers,
Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 527, Issue 3, 21 July 2004, pages
580-590.
21) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, A. Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Implementation of a Bidimensional Compressor
for a High-Energy Physics Experiment "
IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science , Volume 511, Number 5, October 2004, pages
2941-2946.
22) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, A. Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Design and Realization of an ALICE SDD
End-Ladder Prototype "
LECC'04
10th Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments, Boston, USA, September 13-17
2004.
23) D.Falchieri, S. Antinori, F. Costa, A. Gabrielli, E.Gandolfi
" Design and Construction of an ALICE SDD
End-Ladder Prototype Board "
2004
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference , Rome, Italy,
October 2004.
24) D.Falchieri
" Test of the End Ladder Prototype Board of
the ALICE SDD Experiment "
11th
Workshop of Electronics for LHC and future experiments , Heidelberg,
Germany, 12-16 September 2005.
25) D.Falchieri
" Production and assembly of the ALICE Silicon
Drift Detectors "
Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators,
Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, - 2006, Volume XXX, Issues
XX,Pages XX-XX, , ISSN 0168-9002- Proceedings of the RD05 - 7th International
Conference on Large Scale Applications and Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor
detectors - Florence Italy October 5-7, 2005
26) D.Falchieri
" Production and Test of a Readout Chip for
the ALICE SDD Experiment "
Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators,
Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - 2006, Volume XXX, Issues
XX,Pages XX-XX, ISSN 0168-9002- Proceedings of the RD05 - 7th International
Conference on Large Scale Applications and Radiation Hardness of Semiconductor
detectors - Florence Italy October 5-7, 2005
27) D.Falchieri
" Design and test of the final ALICE SDD
CARLOS end ladder board "
12th
Workshop on Electronics for LHC and future Experiments , 25- 29 September
2006, Valencia, Spain, pp. xx-xx, ISBN: xxxxxx, ISSN: 0007-8328
28) D.Falchieri
" Design and Test of the ALICE SDD Data
Concentrator Card CARLOSrx "
2006
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference , 29 October - 4
November, 2006, San Diego, CA USA.
29) S. Beole`, B. Alessandro, S. Antinori, S. Coli, F. Costa, E. Crescio, D. Falchieri, R. Arteche Diaz, S. Di Liberto, G. Giraudo, P. Giubellino, G. Masetti, G. Mazza, F. Meddi, F. Prino, A. Rashevsky, L. Riccati, A. Rivetti, S. Senyukov, L. Simonetti, L. Toscano, F. Tosello, G.M. Urciuoli, A. Vacchi, R. Wheadon
" The ALICE silicon
drift detectors: Production and assembly"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
582 (2007) 733–738
30) S. Antinori, F.
Costa, D.Falchieri
"CARLOSrx: an online
Data Acquisition system for ALICE ITS SDD"
13th Workshop on Electronics for LHC and future
Experiments, 3 - 7 September 2007, Prague
31) S. Antinori, B. Alessandro, S. Beole’, S. Coli, F. Costa P. De Remigis, D. Falchieri, E. Gandolfi, G. Giraudo, P. Giubellino, J. Kral, M. Masetti, G. Mazza, A. Rashevsky, L. Riccati, A. Rivetti, S. Senyukov, L. Toscano, F. Tosello, R. Wheadon
" Test and
commissioning of the CARLOS control boards for the ALICE Silicon Drift Detector"
13th Workshop on Electronics for LHC and future
Experiments, 3 - 7 September 2007, Prague
32) G. Batigne, S. Beole’, E. Biolcati, E. Crescio, D. Falchieri, G. Mazza, F. Prino, A. Rashevsky, L. Riccati, A. Rivetti, S. Senyukov, L. Toscano
"Characterization of the ALICE Silicon Drift
Detectors using an infrared laser"
JINST Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 3, June 2008,
P06004 (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/06/P06004)
33) The
ALICE collaboration, K. Aamodt et al.
"The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC"
JINST Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 3, August 2008,
S08003 (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08002)
34) D.Falchieri
"On-Line Data Reduction on the ALICE SDD Data
Concentrator Card CARLOSrx"
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science
Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 25
Ottobre - 31 Ottobre 2009, Orlando, FL, USA.
35) P. L. Rossi, S. Masetti, A. Turco, D.Falchieri
"Small Animal Imaging with a Quasi-Monochromatic
Multi-Energy CT"
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical
Imaging Conference, 25 Ottobre - 31 Ottobre 2009,
Orlando, FL, USA.
36) The
ALICE collaboration, K. Aamodt et al.
“First proton-proton collisions at the LHC as observed
with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged-particle pseudorapidity
density at root s = 900 Gev”
European
Physical Journal C, Volume 65, Issues 1-2, Pages 111-125, 2010
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