Massimo Ruo Roch

Massimo Ruo Roch serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. His academic appointment falls under the scientific disciplinary sector IINF-01/A - Electronics within Area 0009 - Industrial and Information Engineering.

His research spans multiple cutting-edge domains including Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Energy Efficiency, Smart Cities, Logic in Memory, and Nanomagnetics. His work aligns with several European Research Council sectors including Micro- and nano-systems engineering, Artificial intelligence, Computer architecture, and Distributed systems.

Ruo Roch leads the VLSILAB research group and has developed significant expertise in smart embedded systems for lighting and IoT applications, as well as agritech with autonomous robot systems for grape harvesting. His publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to low-power computing, magnetic logic circuits, and error correction techniques dating back to the late 1990s.

Among his notable recognitions are the National Innovation Award (2013) and the prestigious Prize of Prizes (2014) conferred by the President of the Italian Republic through the National Foundation for Technological Innovation COTEC.

He actively supervises doctoral candidates including Fabrizio Mo (working on Molecular Sensors at the Nanoscale) and Andrea Mongardi (researching Bio-inspired sEMG-based embedded systems). His research portfolio includes multiple commercial contracts and patents related to test systems, data-driven architectures, and intelligent lighting devices.