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Francesca Ortolani

Francesca Ortolani

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Audio Fields:

  • Product Design & Manufacturing - Hardware
  • Product Design & Manufacturing - Software
  • Product Design & Manufacturing - Research & Development

Job Duties:

  • Hardware Designer
  • DSP Engineer
  • Engineer
  • Producer
  • Production Sound Mixer/Sound Recordist
  • Recording Engineer
  • Software Designer

About

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.

Non-AES Awards & Award Nominations

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

Education Background

- 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.

Why Am I An AES Member?

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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