Francesco Monticone

Francesco Monticone is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016, where he was advised by Prof. Andrea Alù. Francesco joined the faculty of Cornell University in 2017 and is also currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer of Heat Inverse, a startup company based in Ithaca, NY. Francesco has authored and co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific contributions and has given over 50 invited talks and seminars. His current research interests are in the areas of applied electromagnetics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and theoretical/computational nanophotonics. His work is motivated both by fundamental scientific questions about wave-matter interaction and novel applications in a range of areas including information processing, communication, sensing and imaging, defense, and energy. Francesco has received several research and teaching awards, including the Michael Tien ’72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award from Cornell University (2020), the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics (2019), the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2018), and the Inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Award from The University of Texas at Austin (2017).