BIOGRAPHY
Matteo Rinaldi is the co-founder and CEO of Zepsor Technologies, a start-up company that aims to bring to market zero standby power sensors for various applications including home automation, touch-free hygiene products, alarm/security systems, personal electronics, appliances, smart buildings, industrial safety monitoring and fire safety monitoring. Dr. Rinaldi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in December 2010 and after that he joined Northeastern University where he is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and the Director of the Kostas Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Director of Northeastern SMART Center a university research center that, by fostering partnership between university, industry and government stakeholders, focuses on the discovery, pilot manufacturing and rapid transition of new micro and nano systems technologies that are foundational for emerging paradigms like zero-power sensing, 5G/6G communications, artificial intelligence, quantum information science and nanomedicine. The research in Dr. Rinaldi’s group is supported by several Federal grants (including DARPA, ARPA-E, NSF, DHS), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Keck Foundation with funding of $30+M since 2012. Dr. Rinaldi has co-authored more than 200 publications in the aforementioned research areas and also holds 15 patents and more than 10 device patent applications in the field of MEMS/NEMS.
Dr. Rinaldi was the recipient of the IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award in 2015, the NSF CAREER Award in 2014 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award class of 2012. He received 7 Best Student Paper Awards (with his students) at top IEEE international conferences.
Prof. Rinaldi is also the owner of Smart MicroTech Consulting LLC, a company that routinely provides consulting services to government agencies, large companies and startups in the broad areas of Micro and Nano Technologies, Internet of Things, Wireless Communication devices and systems, Radio Frequency Devices and Systems and Sensors.