Education

Dario Petri received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) in 1986. He also received the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the same University in 1990.

Academic career and teaching activities

From 1990 to 1992, he was with the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, University of Padua as an Assistant Professor. In 1992, he joined the University of Perugia as an Associate Professor. In 1999 he became a Full Professor of measurement and electronic instrumentation. From 1999 to 2002 he coordinated the M.Sc and B.Sc courses in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the University of Perugia.
In 2002 he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento, where he coordinated the Ph.D., the M.Sc. and the B.Sc courses. Then was the Head of the Department from 2010 to 2012.
In 2012 he was a founder of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento and he is currently the head of Department since 2015.
He was a member of the Evaluation Committee of the University of Trento from 2006 to 2010, a member of the Committee for Quality Improvement from 2013 to 2014, and the Committee for Recruitment and Career Advancement of professors and researchers of the same University from 2014 to 2015.
 

Research interests

Research interests cover different fields and are focused on data acquisition systems design and testing, embedded systems, instrumentation for smart energy grids, fundamentals of measurement theory, measurement for quality management, and application of digital signal processing to measurement problems.

Research work

During his research career, Dario Petri has been an author of over 300 papers published in international journals or in proceedings of peer reviewed international conferences.  His research activities cover different fields and are focused on data acquisition systems design and testing, embedded systems, instrumentation for smart energy grids, fundamentals of measurement theory, measurement for quality management, and application of digital signal processing to measurement problems.
 

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Dario Petri is an IEEE fellow member, the VP for Finance of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society since 2013 and the chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative in Trento since 2015. He was the VP for Conferences of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society from 2011 to 2013 and a chair of a variety of IEEE international conferences and workshops.
Dario Petri was a Co-founder and a Chair of different IEEE Schools such as the “International Measurement University” (IMU) of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society, the “School of Future Energy Systems” and the “School of Career Boosting” of the IEEE Italy Section. He was also a Co-founder  of the International Forum on Research and Technologies for society and Industry of the IEEE Italy Section.  He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 
Dario Petri chaired the Italian Association of Electrical and Electronic Measurements (GMEE) - which gathers researchers from Universities, Metrological Institutes and Companies in the field of measurement and instrumentation - from 2013 to 2016. He also chaired the IEEE Italy Section, that gathers almost 5000 researchers from Italian Universities and Companies in the area of Industrial and Information Engineering, from 2012 to 2014.  He was also a member of the national Group of Expert of Evaluation (GEV) for research in the area of Industrial and Information Engineering in 2016 and 2017.
 

Awards and honours

Dario Petri is a Fellow member of the IEEE, a Distinguished Reviewer and a Distinguished Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurements.
Dario Petri was a General Chair of various IEEE International Conferences and Workshops.