Amerigo Trotta

Prof. Amerigo Trotta received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Bari in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He was an on-board avionics maintenance technical officer in the Italian Air Force for one year, then an Assistant Professor of Electrical Measurements at the Polytechnic of Bari, till 1998. In November 1998 he joined the University of Lecce as Associate professor of Electronic Measurements, and since 2001 he is Full Professor with the Polytechnic of Bari. His research activity has concerned optimization of spectral estimation algorithms for monitoring power systems and diagnostics of electrical drives, design of digital filters to increase performance of digital instrumentation, characterization of A/D converters through statistical, time-domain and frequency-domain procedures, and DSP techniques for frequency measurements on signals. Prof. Trotta is a member of the IEEE/I&M Soc., of the Italian Electrotechnical and Electronic Association (AEI), and of the Italian Group of Electrical and Electronic Meas. (GMEE).