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Massimo Donelli

Massimo Donelli

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
39
Citations
5794
World Ranking
4737
National Ranking
166

Overview

Massimo Donelli is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, media technology, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics within engineering, with notable emphasis on:

  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • RFID Technology Advancements
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
  • Antenna Design and Optimization
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques

Massimo Donelli has published in several recognized venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Microsystem Technologies
  • Progress In Electromagnetics Research C
  • Measurement

Co-authorship has been established with researchers such as Viviana Mulloni, Mohammedhusen Manekiya, Jacopo Iannacci, Giada Marchi, and Koushik Guha, indicating collaborative work in the scientist's main research areas.

Recent papers from their research portfolio include:

  • "Chipless RFID Sensors for the Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities," 2020, published in Sensors
  • "GPR B scan image analysis with deep learning methods," 2020, published in Measurement
  • "Deep learning-integrated MRI brain tumor analysis: feature extraction, segmentation, and Survival Prediction using Replicator and volumetric networks," 2025, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Double Overt-Leaf Shaped CPW-Fed Four Port UWB MIMO Antenna," 2021, published in Electronics
  • "Development of a Microwave Sensor for Solid and Liquid Substances Based on Closed Loop Resonator," 2021, published in Sensors

The collective volume of publications includes significant contributions to engineering disciplines, with a publication count reaching 161 in the primary field. The subfields are dominantly occupied by electrical and electronic engineering (70 publications) and aerospace engineering (41 publications), followed by biomedical engineering, media technology, and mechanical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary optimization as applied to inverse scattering problems

    Paolo Rocca;Manuel Benedetti;Massimo Donelli;Davide Franceschini

  • Automatic Analysis of GPR Images: A Pattern-Recognition Approach

    E. Pasolli;F. Melgani;M. Donelli

  • Linear Array Thinning Exploiting Almost Difference Sets

    G. Oliveri;M. Donelli;A. Massa

  • Computational approach based on a particle swarm optimizer for microwave imaging of two-dimensional dielectric scatterers

    M. Donelli;A. Massa

  • Object tracking through RSSI measurements in wireless sensor networks

    Federico Viani;Leonardo Lizzi;Paolo Rocca;Manuel Benedetti

  • A Planar Electronically Reconfigurable Wi-Fi Band Antenna Based on a Parasitic Microstrip Structure

    M. Donelli;R. Azaro;L. Fimognari;A. Massa

  • Three-Dimensional Microwave Imaging Problems Solved Through an Efficient Multiscaling Particle Swarm Optimization

    M. Donelli;D. Franceschini;P. Rocca;A. Massa

  • A new methodology based on an iterative multiscaling for microwave imaging

    S. Caorsi;M. Donelli;D. Franceschini;A. Massa

  • A Hybrid Approach Based on PSO and Hadamard Difference Sets for the Synthesis of Square Thinned Arrays

    M. Donelli;A. Martini;A. Massa

  • Exploitation of Parasitic Smart Antennas in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Federico Viani;Leonardo Lizzi;Massimo Donelli;Denis Pregnolato

  • Improved microwave imaging procedure for nondestructive evaluations of two-dimensional structures

    S. Caorsi;A. Massa;M. Pastorino;M. Donelli

  • An integrated multiscaling strategy based on a particle swarm algorithm for inverse scattering problems

    M. Donelli;G. Franceschini;A. Martini;A. Massa

  • Particle-swarm optimization of broadband nanoplasmonic arrays

    Carlo Forestiere;Massimo Donelli;Gary F. Walsh;Edoardo Zeni

  • An Innovative Microwave-Imaging Technique for Nondestructive Evaluation: Applications to Civil Structures Monitoring and Biological Bodies Inspection

    M. Benedetti;M. Donelli;A. Martini;M. Pastorino

  • An innovative computational approach based on a particle swarm strategy for adaptive phased-arrays control

    M. Donelli;R. Azaro;F.G.B. De Natale;A. Massa

  • Chipless RFID Sensors for the Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities

    Viviana Mulloni;Massimo Donelli

  • An Innovative Multiresolution Approach for DOA Estimation Based on a Support Vector Classification

    M. Donelli;F. Viani;P. Rocca;A. Massa

  • A classification approach based on SVM for electromagnetic subsurface sensing

    A. Massa;A. Boni;M. Donelli

  • Detection, location, and imaging of multiple scatterers by means of the iterative multiscaling method

    S. Caorsi;M. Donelli;A. Massa

  • LINEAR ANTENNA SYNTHESIS WITH A HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM

    Massimo Donelli;Salvatore Caorsi;Francesco De Natale;Matteo Pastorino

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Rocca
Paolo Rocca University of Trento
Marco Salucci
Marco Salucci University of Trento
Luc Vandendorpe
Luc Vandendorpe Université Catholique de Louvain
Luca Dal Negro
Luca Dal Negro Boston University
Roberto Passerone
Roberto Passerone University of Trento

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