Sergio Picozzi

Department

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

    • School

  • College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing

    • Expertise

  • RF and Microwave Circuits
  • Antennas
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Materials Science & Engineering
  • Interaction of Materials with Electromagnetic Fields
  • Metamaterials
  • Quantum Computing/Communications

    • Bio

    Sergio Picozzi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Picozzi teaches a number of courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Additionally, Dr. Picozzi serves as Associate Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, and he teaches several graduate courses pertaining to the program. Dr. Picozzi’s research activities have included nanotechnology, stress and fracture in solids, statistical and nuclear physics, and applications of physics to economics and finance. Currently, he is involved in establishing a research program in AI-supported radar systems. In terms of curriculum development, Dr. Picozzi is working to establish a graduate program in Military Electronics Applications (Electronic Warfare), and he has been developing and offering courses on the subject. He has also been developing and offering new courses in RF and Microwave Engineering and Quantum Computing. Finally, Dr. Picozzi serves the College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing in areas such as mentoring, recruitment, and outreach.

    Selected Publications

    1. Sorrentino, D. Tolic, R. Fierro, S. Picozzi, J.R. Gordon, and A. Mammoli, "Stability Analysis of a Model for the Market Dynamics of a Smart Grid”, Proceedings of 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, held in Florence, Italy, December 2013
    2. A. Shams, S. Picozzi, and F. B. Malik, “A Study of Colossal Magnetoresistance Using Maximum Entropy Principle”, Physica B 352, 269 (2004)
    3. Scafetta, S. Picozzi, B.J. West, "An Out-Of-Equilibrium Model of the Distributions of Wealth”, Quantitative Finance 4, 353 (2004)
    4. Scafetta, B.J. West, S. Picozzi, "A Trade-Investment Model for Distribution of Wealth”, Physica D 193, 338 (2004)
    5. Picozzi and B. J. West, "Fractional Langevin Model of Memory in Financial Markets”, Phys.Rev.E 66, 046118 (2002)
    6. J. West and S. Picozzi, "Fractional Langevin Model of Memory in Financial Time Series”, Phys.Rev.E 65, 037106 (2002)
    7. Edwards, S. Picozzi, I. Reichstein, Z. Shehadeh and F. B. Malik, “Atomic and Nuclear Clusters”, G. S. Anagnostatos and W. Von Oertzen, eds. (Springer-Verlag 1993) p. 34