Alfonso Farina obtained the laurea degree in electronic engineering in 1973 at University La Sapienza in Rome. In 1974, he joined Selenia (later renamed Selex ES), a Finmeccanica company. There, he was director of the analysis of integrate systems unit and then chief engineer of large business systems division. More recently, he was senior VP CTO and then senior advisor to the CTO. From 1979 to 1985, he was a professor of radar techniques at the University of Naples. He retired in 2014 but, currently, works as a consultant. His pioneering work on tracking while scanning, now widely used in all radars, was recounted in a classical set of two books that, due to their widespread relevance, were translated also in Russian and Chinese. He is considered the “father” of Italian industrial PCL radar. From 2004 to 2014, he led the team of engineers in conceiving, designing and implementing successive generations of improved PCL radar systems. He is IEEE Fellow (2000), International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005), IET Fellow (1997), EURASIP Fellow (2010), member of European Academy of Science (2020). He won several awards, among which: the Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (1987), the honor of Maestro del Lavoro with decoration of “Stella al Merito del Lavoro” (2003); the IEEE D. J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications (2010); the IET Achievement Medals (2014); the IEEE Signal Processing Society Industrial Leader Award (2018).
Research Keywords & Expertise
Systems Engineering
adaptive beamforming
Radar systems
Tracking algorithms
Short Biography
Alfonso Farina obtained the laurea degree in electronic engineering in 1973 at University La Sapienza in Rome. In 1974, he joined Selenia (later renamed Selex ES), a Finmeccanica company. There, he was director of the analysis of integrate systems unit and then chief engineer of large business systems division. More recently, he was senior VP CTO and then senior advisor to the CTO. From 1979 to 1985, he was a professor of radar techniques at the University of Naples. He retired in 2014 but, currently, works as a consultant. His pioneering work on tracking while scanning, now widely used in all radars, was recounted in a classical set of two books that, due to their widespread relevance, were translated also in Russian and Chinese. He is considered the “father” of Italian industrial PCL radar. From 2004 to 2014, he led the team of engineers in conceiving, designing and implementing successive generations of improved PCL radar systems. He is IEEE Fellow (2000), International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005), IET Fellow (1997), EURASIP Fellow (2010), member of European Academy of Science (2020). He won several awards, among which: the Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (1987), the honor of Maestro del Lavoro with decoration of “Stella al Merito del Lavoro” (2003); the IEEE D. J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications (2010); the IET Achievement Medals (2014); the IEEE Signal Processing Society Industrial Leader Award (2018).
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