Press release -
Donatella Sciuto elected Rector of the Politecnico di Milano
Milan, 10 November 2022- Donatella Sciuto was elected Rector at the second vote with 892.81 weighted votes, her mandate will begin on 1 January 2023 and will end on 31 December 2028.
The challenger Antonio Capone received 443.47 weighted votes, the challenger Giulio Magli 182.47 weighted votes and the challenger Gianpaolo Rosati 45.28 weighted votes.
1,602.52 weighted voters turned up, equal to 90.13% of those entitled to vote.
The current Rector of the Politecnico Ferruccio Resta will remain in office until 31 December 2022.
Curriculum Vitae of DONATELLA SCIUTO
Donatella Sciuto is Deputy Vice Rector of the Politecnico di Milano. She is a Full Professor of Processing Systems at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering.
She holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds a Master in Business and Administration (CEGA) from the Business Management School of Bocconi University.
She was nominated IEEE Fellow for her scientific contribution in ‘embedded systems design’.
Since 2013 she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Banca d’Italia. Since 2017 she has been an independent member of the Board of Directors of AVIO S.p.A and Raiway S.p.A, since 2021 of Fila S.p.A and since 2022 she has been a member of the supervisory board of STMicroelectronics.
From 2018 to 2022 she was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Human Technopole Foundation and from 2021 she is on the board of the Italian Institute of Technology.
She was President of the Council on Electronic Design Automation of IEEE (the largest professional organization in the world in the technological field) from 2011 to 2013. She was named IBM Women Leaders in Artificial Intelligence in 2021 and Inspiring Fifty Italy in 2018. In 2022 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.
The research activity was mainly carried out in the field of computer system architectures, considering both hardware design activities and methodologies for the automation of the design of embedded systems, dedicated systems consisting of both hardware and software parts, and issues relating to performance, energy consumption and safety. More recently, the research activity has also addressed the more applicative problems, linked to the use of ICT technologies in the construction of smart cities, in which embedded systems and sensor networks represent the fundamental technological infrastructural components and in the fintech field. She is co-author of more than 90 scientific articles in international journals, 20 chapters of international research books and more than 300 articles at international conferences. She is co-author of 4 international patents in the area of processor architectures with STMicroelectronics and of a national and international patent with Politecnico di Milano. She is also the co-author of several educational publications in the IT area. She was responsible for several European and Italian projects.
She has participated in numerous international conference programme committees and in organizational leadership positions and participates in editorial committees of international scientific journals in the sector. She has participated in numerous international scientific evaluation committees, both for universities and as part of the evaluation of researchers.
She actively collaborates in the promotion programmes of STEM disciplines for girls and has launched diversity & inclusion programmes at the Politecnico di Milano.
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Politecnico di Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers.
The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.
Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system.
Knowing the world in which you are going to work is a vital requirement for training students. By referring back to the needs of the industrial world and public administration, research is facilitated in following new paths and dealing with the need for constant and rapid innovation. The alliance with the industrial world, in many cases favored by Fondazione Politecnico and by consortiums to which Politecnico belong, allows the university to follow the vocation of the territories in which it operates and to be a stimulus for their development.
The challenge which is being met today projects this tradition which is strongly rooted in the territory beyond the borders of the country, in a relationship which is developing first of all at the European level with the objective of contributing to the creation of a single professional training market. Politecnico takes part in several research, sites and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnico's contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America to Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. Today the drive to internationalization sees Politecnico Milano taking part into the European and world network of leading technical universities and it offers several courses beside many which are entirely taught in English.
