About Me

Francesco Fraternali


I am a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. I am a member of Microelectronic Embedded Systems Laboratory (MESL) supervised by Prof. Rajesh Gupta.

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering at University of Bologna in 2009 and 2012 respectively.

My current research is in the area of "Embedded Systems" with a specific focus on "Internet of Things" "Reinforcement Learning", "Smart Building", "Energy Harvesting Sensors" and "Super-Computers".

Resume

Publications

Resource-Efficient Computing in Wearable Systems
Mahdi Pedram, Mahsan Rofouei, Francesco Fraternali, Zhila Esna Ashari, Hassan Ghasemzadeh

IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2019) Washington DC, USA.
June 2019

Pible: battery-free mote for perpetual indoor BLE applications
Francesco Fraternali, Bharathan Balaji, Yuvraj Agarwal, Luca Benini, Rajesh Gupta. 2018.

BuildSys '18
October 2018

Scaling configuration of energy harvesting sensors with reinforcement learning
Francesco Fraternali, Bharathan Balaji, Rajesh Gupta. 2018.

EnsSys '18
October 2018

Demo Abstract: Pible: battery-free mote for perpetual indoor BLE applications
Francesco Fraternali, Bharathan Balaji, Yuvraj Agarwal, Luca Benini, Rajesh Gupta. 2018.

BuildSys '18
October 2018

Quantifying the Impact of Variability and Heterogeneity on the Energy Efficiency for a Next-Generation Ultra-Green Supercomputer
Francesco Fraternali, Andrea Bartolini, Carlo Cavazzoni, Luca Benini

TPDS
Oct 2017

Quantifying the impact of variability on the energy efficiency for a next-generation ultra-green supercomputer
Francesco Fraternali, Andrea Bartolini, Carlo Cavazzoni, Giampietro Tecchiolli, and Luca Benini. 2014.

ISLPED '14
August 2014

Opportunistic Hierarchical Classification for Power Optimization in Wearable Movement Monitoring Systems
Francesco Fraternali, Mahsan Rofouei, Nabil Ashura, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Luca Benini, Majid Sarrafzadeh

SIES '12
Apri 2012

Towards Large-Scale Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks
Francesco Fraternali (Ph.D Research Exam)

Honors & Awards

Best Demo Award: Pible: battery-free mote for perpetual indoor BLE applications
Francesco Fraternali, Bharathan Balaji, Yuvraj Agarwal, Luca Benini, Rajesh Gupta. 2018.

BuildSys
October 2018

Best Poster Award: Monitoring and Resource Management Techniques for Energy Efficiency in Supercomputer Environments
Francesco Fraternali, Andrea Bartolini and Luca Benini.

WEEE
January 2014

Contact

Francesco Fraternali
frfrater [at] eng.ucsd.edu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
EBU3B Room 2142
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0404