2026 Alessandro Ferrero: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	38	8034	7747	294	290	240	5997

Research.com Recognitions

2006 - IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement "For advancing the measurement of electrical quantities in electric power systems under non-sinusodial conditions."
1999 - IEEE Fellow For the development of measurement techniques for electric power systems.

Overview

Alessandro Ferrero is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Engineering and Decision Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientific topics addressed in their work include:

Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation
Fault Detection and Control Systems
Power Quality and Harmonics
Advanced Electrical Measurement Techniques
Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring
Magnetic Properties and Applications
Power Transformer Diagnostics and Insulation

Among Ferrero's recent publications are several articles spanning from 2020 to 2023. Key papers include:

"Compensating Nonlinearities in Voltage Transformers for Enhanced Harmonic Measurements: The Simplified Volterra Approach" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
"An Innovative Approach to Express Uncertainty Introduced by Voltage Transformers" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
"The Possibilistic Kalman Filter: Definition and Comparison With the Available Methods" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
"A modified Bayes' theorem for reliable conformity assessment in industrial metrology" (2021), published in Measurement
"A method to consider a maximum admissible risk in decision-making procedures based on measurement results" (2023), published in ACTA IMEKO

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

Veronica Scotti
Simona Salicone
Harsha Vardhana Jetti
Sina Ronaghi
Sergio Toscani

Ferrero's published works have appeared in several venues repeatedly, notably:

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (3 publications)
ACTA IMEKO (2 publications)
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Measurement
Open Journal of Statistics

Additionally, Ferrero has contributed to the field through book publications, including the title Forensic Metrology (2022) published by Springer International Publishing.

Their professional recognition includes:

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement (2006) for advancing the measurement of electrical quantities in electric power systems under non-sinusoidal conditions
IEEE Fellow (1999) awarded for development of measurement techniques for electric power systems

Best Publications

A distributed system for electric power quality measurement

L. Cristaldi;A. Ferrero;S. Salicone

405
Citations
Camera as the instrument: the rising trend of vision based measurement

Shervin Shirmohammadi;Alessandro Ferrero

389
Citations
A new approach to the definition of power components in three-phase systems under nonsinusoidal conditions

A. Ferrero;G. Superti-Furga

331
Citations
A Web-based distributed virtual educational laboratory

L. Benetazzo;M. Bertocco;F. Ferraris;A. Ferrero

270
Citations
A fuzzy-set approach to fault-type identification in digital relaying

A. Ferrero;S. Sangiovanni;E. Zappitelli

218
Citations
Harmonic power flow analysis for the measurement of the electric power quality

L. Cristaldi;A. Ferrero

193
Citations
High-accuracy Fourier analysis based on synchronous sampling techniques

A. Ferrero;R. Ottoboni

185
Citations
The random-fuzzy variables: a new approach to the expression of uncertainty in measurement

A. Ferrero;S. Salicone

180
Citations
Digital Signal Processing for Measurement Systems: Theory and Applications

Gabriele D'Antona;Alessandro Ferrero

151
Citations
ReMLab: a Java-based remote, didactic measurement laboratory

A. Ferrero;S. Salicone;C. Bonora;M. Parmigiani

149
Citations
A simulation tool for virtual laboratory experiments in a WWW environment

A. Ferrero;V. Piuri

125
Citations
Programmable instruments, virtual instruments, and distributed measurement systems: what is really useful, innovative and technically sound?

L. Cristaldi;A. Ferrero;V. Piuri

117
Citations
Definitions of electrical quantities commonly used in non-sinusoidal conditions

A. Ferrero

116
Citations
Measuring electric power quality: Problems and perspectives

Alessandro Ferrero

103
Citations
A calibration procedure for a digital instrument for electric power quality measurement

A. Ferrero;M. Lazzaroni;S. Salicone

96
Citations
Measurement of the electric power quality and related problems

A. Ferrero;A. Menchetti;R. Sasdelli

95
Citations
A Fast, Simplified Frequency-Domain Interpolation Method for the Evaluation of the Frequency and Amplitude of Spectral Components

A Ferrero;S Salicone;S Toscani

84
Citations
A fully-comprehensive mathematical approach to the expression of uncertainty in measurement

A. Ferrero;S. Salicone

82
Citations
A linearization method for commercial Hall-effect current transducers

L. Cristaldi;A. Ferrero;M. Lazzaroni;R.T. Ottoboni

82
Citations
Measurement uncertainty

A. Ferrero;S. Salicone

81
Citations
A digital method for the identification of the source of distortion in electric power systems

L. Cristaldi;A. Ferrero

80
Citations