MSc Electronic Engineering · University of Padova
Specializing in integrated circuits, after a BSc at the University of Udine — working toward a career as an IC designer.
University work first, from two MSc courses and a thesis done in industry, then three projects of my own.
Four lab exercises for my Analog IC Design course — CMOS current mirrors, a current-mirror OTA redesigned to a gain/bandwidth/offset spec, a two-stage OTA stabilized from a marginal 25° to 68.5° of phase margin inside a capacitive-feedback loop, and a band-gap reference tuned to 0.09% of its target and flat to 0.3 mV from −40 to 85 °C. Each hand-calculated first, then verified in simulation.
View projectAn arc furnace melts scrap by striking an arc between graphite electrodes; when one cracks off mid-column, part of that arc is lost instantly. Written on-site at SMS Group, this is a MATLAB detector that catches the moment in signals the company already logs on every furnace it builds — no new hardware. No single trace gives it away: secondary voltage and current collapse in one time step, while the electrode's hydraulic pressure only bends into a slow decay over the following minute. So the two fast channels are checked with a level crossing, the slow one with a slope condition, and a break is flagged only when both agree — which is what keeps an ordinary arc restrike from raising a false alarm. Tuned against confirmed breakages from client furnaces worldwide.
View projectFour design problems, each solved three times over: by hand, in MATLAB and in CST. A single waveguide mode isolated from dozens with a modal filter; a 705 Ω load matched to a 50 Ω line with a single stub; a microstrip branch-line coupler that hits its −6 dB coupling in MATLAB and lands 7% high in CST, because the full-wave model sees the junction parasitics the ideal lines leave out; and the same load matched again until the usable band grows from 11 MHz to 975 MHz with a four-section binomial transformer.
View projectA dashboard over Formula 1's official timing and telemetry, for any race weekend, a whole season or the sport's all-time records. It compares two drivers lap by lap and corner by corner, and fits tyre degradation per compound with lap number standing in for fuel burn-off, so a long stint on Hards doesn't read as a tyre getting faster. The official feed refuses connections from cloud servers, so the hosted version runs on data a home PC publishes after every session — it keeps up with the season on its own.
The dataset is my own hiking log: every peak, pass, lake and rifugio I've reached since 2021, mostly in the Julian and Carnic Alps that start an hour from where I grew up. What began as a few summer walks turned into something I keep track of properly, so I built the map it deserved — a single-page Leaflet app, no framework behind it. It searches and filters 100+ locations on a shaded-relief map or a sortable list, replays the log year by year, and turns it into hand-built SVG charts that link back to the map. Adding a summit is one entry in a plain JS file — the markers on this preview are plotted straight from it.
Something other people can pick up and use, not just look at: an expense tracker that lives in a single HTML file. Open it in a browser, install it to a phone's home screen, or download the file and keep it — all three work with the network off. Log a top-up and it keeps a running balance of what's left; categories can carry a monthly limit, rent and bills post themselves, and a coffee bought every day is one tap. Entries never leave the device: no account, no server, nothing to sign up for. The charts are hand-drawn SVG, and the category palette was checked for colour-blind separation rather than picked by eye.
Open the trackerI chose integrated circuits because they're the part of electronics where the calculation has to hold up before anything works.
I'm completing my Master's in Electronic Engineering at the University of Padova, building on the foundation from my Bachelor's degree at the University of Udine. I'm also increasingly drawn to AI, coding, and web development: I think it's essential to keep up with how technology is evolving, and these are becoming part of how circuit design itself gets done too.
Outside of engineering, I enjoy spending time in the mountains, going to the gym, and running.
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Analog IC Design Lab Report
Current mirrors, an OTA sized to spec and a band-gap reference tuned flat over temperature.
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Electric Arc Furnace Thesis
Spotting electrode breakage in real furnace signals, automatically.
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F1 Race Data Dashboard
Official timing and telemetry as a live app that updates itself after every race.
