Renato Ferrero

Renato Ferrero is an Associate Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN), Politecnico di Torino (Polito), with key roles as contact person for training activities and member of the PIC4SeR Interdepartmental Center for Service Robotics. His research spans Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), and Environmental Monitoring, supported by competitive grants like AGRITech Spoke 6 (2022-2025) and MIUR funding (2017).

He has published extensively on topics including air pollution monitoring, quantum-inspired security, and agricultural technology, with recent work focusing on deep learning for mask/respirator detection and biofertilizer analysis. As an IEEE Access Associate Editor and program committee member for conferences like COMPSAC and RFID-TA, he contributes to academic governance.

His teaching includes Computer Architecture (2019-2025) and Ubiquitous Computing (2019-2021) at Polito. He advises PhD students Chiara Panico and Nicola Dilillo, with projects in Data Science, Computer Vision, and AI Life Sciences.