Donatella Sciuto

Italian electronic engineer and academic administrator

Donatella Sciuto (born 1962) is an Italian electronic engineer and academic administrator, the rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan.^[1] Her research involves embedded systems, low-power electronics, and multicore Very Large Scale Integration, with applications including smart buildings.

Education and career

Sciuto was born in 1962 in Varese.^[2] After earning a laurea in electronic engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Sciuto went to the University of Colorado Boulder for doctoral study in electrical and computer engineering. She also has a Master of Business Administration from Bocconi University.^[3]

She became an assistant professor at the University of Brescia in 1986, returned to the Polytechnic University of Milan as an associate professor in 1992, and was promoted to full professor in 2000. She became vice rector of the university in 2010, and executive vice rector in 2015.^[4] She was elected as rector for the 2023–2028 term, becoming the first woman to lead the university.^[2]^[1]

Recognition

Sciuto was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011 "for contributions to embedded system design".^[5] She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2022.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Donatella Sciuto is the new rector of the Politecnico di Milano, International Association of Universities, 28 November 2022, retrieved 2022-12-27
^ ^a ^b Manetti, Chiara (14 November 2022), "Chi è Donatella Sciuto, la nuova rettrice del Politecnico di Milano", La Svolta (in Italian), retrieved 2022-12-27
^ "Donatella Sciuto", Inspiring Fifty: Italy, archived from the original on 2022-12-27, retrieved 2022-12-27
^ ^a ^b "Donatella Sciuto", Member profiles, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2022-12-27
^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2022-12-27