
A. Lay-Ekuakille
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Biography
Aimé Lay-Ekuakille
(SM'12), received the first M.D. degree in Electronic Engineering (control
technology and automation) from the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 1988,
the second M.D. degree in Clinical Engineering from the University of L’Aquila,
L’Aquila, Italy, in 2002, a M.D. (h.c.) in Environmental Management and Sanitation
from IFAD Institute, Kinshasa, DRC in 2020, and a Ph.D in Electronic
Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, in 2001. From 1989 up to 2000, he was
serving as Technical Top Manager for private and public institutions in the
following main areas: construction and maintenance of industrial
plants, Environment, Biomedicine, Nuclear for civil and heath applications,
Robotics, and Instrumentation. He is with the Dept of Innovation
Engineering, University of Salento, Italy, since 2000, and the Director of
Instrumentation and Measurement Lab I. Prof. Aimé Lay-Ekuakille is a Senior
Member of IEEE. His main areas of research are: (i) Instrumentation and
Measurements for Biomedical, Environmental and Industrial applications, (ii)
Sensors and Sensing Systems, (iii) Nanotechnology, (iv) Artificial intelligence
for Instrumentation and Measurement, and (v) Ageing and Characterization of
Photovoltaic Panels. He authored and co-authored more than 310 papers on
indexed international conferences and journals, as well as 5 international
books. He serves as, Senior Editor of Measurement: Food (Elsevier), Editor of
Measurement Journal (Elsevier, NL), Editor of Measurement: Sensors (Elsevier,
NL), Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (USA), Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Nanobioscience, Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing
and Intelligent Systems (USA), Associate Editor of Mathematical
Problems in Engineering published by Hindawi (UK), and member of some
international journals such as Sensors (Mdpi, CH), American Journal of
Biomedical Engineering published by SAP (USA). Prof. Aimé Lay-Ekuakille is the
Chairman of Imeko TC19 on Environmental Measurements, Chairman of IEEE IMS TC34
on Instrumentation and Measurement in Nanotechnology, and Chairman of the
Nanosensors TC within the Italian chapter of IEEE Sensors Council. He is/was
Visiting and Adjunct Professor in different international universities, namely,
MMU of Kenya, Chemnitz Technical University (Germany), ISTA University (DRC),
Panamerican University in Aguascalientes (Mexico), VUB - Free University of
Brussels (Belgium), University of Navarra (Spain). He mentors different
Ph.D students in Italy and international universities. He continues to
serve as scientific consultant for national and international institutions.