Leonardo Gasparini

Biography

Leonardo Gasparini, born in Castelfranco Veneto (TV), Italy, in 1982, is the Head of the Integrated Readout-ASICs & Image Sensors (IRIS) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering and Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, 2007, and 2011, respectively. During his Ph.D., he developed ultra-low-power WCN nodes and conducted research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also served as a visiting researcher at the University of Bern’s Institute of Applied Physics in 2017, working on entangled photon detection for super-resolution imaging. He has been with FBK since 2010, specializing in integrated optical sensors in deep-submicron CMOS, and currently, his research mostly focuses on single-photon image sensors for applications in biomedicine, particle physics, quantum optics, and Time-of-Flight LiDAR. Since 2022, he has been a program committee member for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

Expertise

• Analog integrated circuit (IC) design
• Electro-optical characterization of ICs, including use of pulsed laser sources
• FPGA firmware design

Experience

• Head of IRIS Unit, Centre for Sensors & Devices at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 01/11/2021 – present
• Lecturer of the System-on-Chip Laboratory, University of Trento, 26/02/2023 – present
• Researcher, Center for Sensors & Devices at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 01/11/2021 – present
• Visiting researcher, University of Bern, 16/06/2017 – 27/10/2017
• Teaching assistant, University of Trento, 2007-2017
• Contract professor, University of Bolzano/Bozen, 21/02/2011 – 29/02/2012