Maurizio Repetto | Electrical Engineering | Research Excellence Award

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Prof. Maurizio Repetto | Electrical Engineering | Research Excellence Award

Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino | Italy

Prof. Maurizio Repetto, born in Genova, Italy, is a renowned scholar in electrical engineering whose academic journey began at the University of Genova, where he earned both his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He holds the position of Full Professor of Principles of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Energy “Galileo Ferraris” of the Politecnico di Torino, contributing extensively to the growth of advanced research in the fields of electromagnetics and energy systems. His international academic presence includes service as Honorary Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and a period as Visiting Researcher at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, enriching his global collaborations and strengthening cross-continental scientific exchanges. He has also played significant roles in leading professional organizations, serving as an elected member for Europe on the Board of the International Compumag Society and as Alternate Representative for Italy in the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement on District Heating and Cooling, including Combined Heat and Power. His leadership extends to coordinating the “Galileo Ferraris Contest Comparing data-driven methodologies for the multi-physics simulation of traction electrical machines,” an initiative promoting innovation at the intersection of computational modelling and electric machine design. His research and consulting work spans numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields, magnetic material modelling, optimisation techniques for industrial device design, and the simulation and optimization of complex and hybrid energy systems integrating renewable energy sources. Widely recognized for his scientific impact, he has authored more than two hundred fifty publications and five patents, accumulating over three thousand citations and achieving an h-index of thirty according to Scopus metrics, reflecting his influential contributions to the global engineering community.

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Featured Publications:

Giaccone, L., Lorenti, G., Repetto, M., & Solimene, L. (2025). Global and local sensitivity analysis applied to electric motor design by polynomial chaos expansion. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

Lazzeroni, P., Lorenti, G., Canova, A., & Repetto, M. (2025). Economic and environmental perspectives of flexible demand in PV-based Italian energy communities with residential end-users. Energy and Buildings.

Gómez de León, F., Bissal, A., Repetto, M., & Freschi, F. (2025). A novel railgun-based actuation system for ultrafast DC circuit breakers in EV fast-charging applications. World Electric Vehicle Journal, 16(9), 514.

Lovato, S., Barosco, G., Ortombina, L., Torchio, R., Alotto, P., Repetto, M., & Massaro, M. (2025). Experimental analysis of a coaxial magnetic gear prototype. Machines, 13(8), 716.

Gómez de León, F., Repetto, M., & Bissal, A. (2025). A novel railgun simulation model based on a quasistatic approach. In Conference Proceedings.

Qi Hu | Metasurfaces | Best Researcher Award

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Dr. Qi Hu | Metasurfaces | Best Researcher Award

Nanjing University | China

Qi Hu is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, where he works under the supervision of Professor Yijun Feng, having previously completed his Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology at Nanjing University and his B.S. in Communication Engineering at the Communication University of China under Professor Jianxun Su. His research focuses on programmable metasurface and dynamic electromagnetic control, tunable, reconfigurable, and programmable metamaterial and metasurface design with emphasis on tuning mechanism, efficiency, multi-channel independence, and frequencies, advancing algorithm-assisted inverse design for high-efficiency multi-functional metasurfaces and realizing dual-band, dual-polarized, and full-space operation antennas. He has also explored low-scattering metamaterials and metasurfaces, improving bandwidth, absorption rate, thickness, and weight in absorbers and tunable absorbers, and developing intelligent platforms for smart scattering control through programmable metamaterial absorbers and phase-tuning metasurfaces. Qi Hu has published peer-reviewed works such as An intelligent programmable omni-metasurface, Dynamically generating diverse multi-beams with on-demand polarizations through space-time coding metasurfaces, A low-scattering reconfigurable metasurface-based reflectarray with high polarization isolation, On-demand dynamic polarization meta-transformer, and Broadband wireless communication with space-time-varying polarization-converting metasurface. His research output includes nine first-author journal papers and eleven conference papers, accumulating more than 740 citations by 599 documents with an h-index of 14 across 33 indexed publications. He has earned recognition through awards such as Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Young Scientist Honourable Mention Award, Young Scholar Award, National Intelligent Metasurface Technology Innovation Competition Second Prize, and multiple best paper awards at international conferences.

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Featured Publications:

Hu, Q., …, & Feng, Y. (2025). Generalized phase tailoring of arbitrary orthogonal polarizations in meta-structure with high-order geometric symmetry. Advanced Science.

Hu, Q., …, & Feng, Y. (2025). A low-scattering reconfigurable metasurface-based reflectarray with high polarization isolation. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Hu, Q., …, & Feng, Y. (2024). Interference-assisted independent amplitude and phase manipulation with broadband chiral meta-mirror. Advanced Optical Materials.