Maurizio Martina was born in Pinerolo (TO), Italy on April 26th, 1975. He received the degree in Electronic Engineering (110/110) in March 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in February 2004, both from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. He then joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Department at Politecnico di Torino, first as a postdoctoral researcher (March 2004 – October 2011), then as an assistant professor (October 2011 – October 2014), associate professor (November 2014 – December 2021), and he is now a full professor. He is a member of the EDGE-group@VLSI-lab. Since 2001 he is married to Silvia, and they have a son, Andrea, and a daughter, Anna.
His research interests include VLSI design and implementation of computer architectures and hardware accelerators for digital signal processing, video coding, communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cryptography. He is author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers and holds two patents. He is also co-author of two book chapters and editor of the book “VLSI architectures for Future Video Coding”, IET, 2019.
He has served as Associate Editor for several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (2018-2022). Maurizio Martina has been guest editor of several special issues, such as the BioCAS 2017 special issue published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He has been part of the organizing and technical committees of various international conferences, such as NGCAS 2017, BioCAS 2017, ICECS 2019 and workshops such as the INTESA workshop, co-located with Embedded Systems Week, Sep. 30 – Oct. 5, 2018, Turin, Italy. He is a member of the program committee of APPLEPIES (Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society) since 2018 and of PRIME (International Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics) since 2020.
Maurizio Martina is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as Counselor for the IEEE Student Branch at Politecnico di Torino. He is also a professional member of HKN Polito.
In 2013, with Prof. Massimo Ruo Roch he proposed the Ecolumiere project, which was ranked 4th at StartCup Piemonte e Val d’Aosta and awarded with the Premio Nazionale Innovazione 2013. Then in 2014, they received the Premio dei Premi award for the Xaluxi start-up.
From 2018 to 2024 he was the Reference Programme Faculty for the Bachelor’s and the Master’s degrees in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, and from 2018 to 2020 he served as the representative of the Polito research unit at the Società Italiana di Elettronica (SIE). He is currently the coordinator of the Academic Teaching Committee at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department (DET), Politecnico di Torino.
He is a member of the Academic Board of the Industrial Ph. D. Program of National Interest in Micro- and Nano-Electronics.