Job Title: Hardware Designer/Sound Engineer
Company:
Ironbridge Electronics
Status: Member
Member since: 2009
Primary Section:
Italian
Company Website: http://www.ironbridge.it
Personal Website: http://www.ironbridge.it/francescaortolani
Hardware/firmware designer and prototyping/test engineer at Ironbridge Electronics. Co-founder of Ironbridge Electronics, a research and development group for professional audio and defense.
Current interests and research areas with Ironbridge Electronics:
Power Amplifiers, Array Processing, Sensors, 3D Audio, Sound Applications to Naval Undersea Warfare, Audio Surveillance.
She currently works as a hardware/firmware designer for companies and organizations in homeland security and defence
(MBDA, Leonardo, Ministry of Defence, Presidence of the Council of Ministers).
In the field of audio engineering, in recent years, she has been involved in the use of
microphone arrays against acoustic threats (drones, planes, military vehicles),
also in the context of national military research projects.
She has been AES member since 2009 and, in particular, she is active in the fields of national defence and wildlife preservation.
President of AES Italian Section 2023-2024.
1) EuMA Third Prize for the best Young Scientist paper.
5th IEEE Microwaves, Radar and Remote Sensing Symposium (MRRS), Kiev, Ukraine, 2017
2) URSI Second Prize for the best Young Scientist paper.
16th IEEE International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory (MMET), Lviv, Ukraine, 2016
- Master's degree in Electronic Engineering/University of Rome Sapienza, with specialization in Circuits and Algorithms for Signal Processing;
- PhD in Information and Communication Technology/University of Rome Sapienza (ISPAMM (Intelligent Signal Processing and MultiMedia Lab) with a thesis entitled "Hypercomplex Adaptive Filtering".
- Diploma in Sound Engineering (Fonia e Music Technology) / Saint Louis College of Music, Rome.
She has been AES member since 2009 and, in particular, she is active in the fields of national defence and wildlife preservation.
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