Matteo Nerini
👋🏻 Welcome to my webpage!
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, UK, and my research interests include signal processing and wireless communications.
I received my BSc (2018) and MSc (2020) from the University of Bologna, Italy, an additional MSc (2020) from NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and my PhD (2024) from Imperial College London, UK. In 2020, I also received the Licence of the Collegio Superiore, the school of excellence of the University of Bologna, which selects approximately the top 0.1% of students. In 2023, during my PhD, I was a Visiting Researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
I was awarded the Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize in 2025 for the best PhD thesis in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial, the Imperial College London PhD Prize by G-Research in 2025 for the second-best PhD thesis at Imperial, and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Best Paper Award.
I am an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, and an IEEE Senior Member.
If you have any questions or want to exchange some ideas, I am always happy to chat. Please reach me at m.nerini20 [at] imperial.ac.uk.
🔥 News 2026
👥 Jun 2026: I have been elevated to IEEE Senior Member!
👥 Jun 2026: I have joined the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters as an Editor!
📝 May 2026: Our preprint "Microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC) for simultaneous active and passive beamforming" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 May 2026: Our paper "Enabling smart radio environments in the frequency domain with movable signals" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
📃 Apr 2026: Our paper "Low-complexity planar beyond-diagonal RIS architecture design using graph theory" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📃 Mar 2026: Our paper "MIMO systems aided by microwave linear analog computers: Capacity-achieving architectures with reduced circuit complexity" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
📝 Mar 2026: Our preprint "Analog computing with hybrid couplers and phase shifters" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Feb 2026: Our preprint "Physics-compliant modeling and optimization of MIMO systems aided by microwave linear analog computers" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Feb 2026: Our paper "Movable signals with dual-polarized fixed Intelligent surfaces: Beyond diagonal reflection matrices" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📝 Jan 2026: Our preprint "Capacity of two-user wireless systems aided by movable signals" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📅 Jan 2026: The Analog Computing Webinar Series 2026, hosted by the IEEE ComSoc special interest group on Analog Computing, has kicked off!
📝 Jan 2026: Our preprint "Low-complexity planar beyond-diagonal RIS architecture design using graph theory" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
News 2025
🏆 Dec 2025: We have received the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 Best Paper Award!
📃 Dec 2025: Our paper "Analog computing for signal processing and communications - Part II: Toward gigantic MIMO beamforming" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Signal Process.!
📃 Dec 2025: Our paper "Analog computing for signal processing and communications - Part I: Computing with microwave networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Signal Process.!
📝 Dec 2025: Our preprint "Movable signals with dual-polarized fixed Intelligent surfaces: Beyond diagonal reflection matrices" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Nov 2025: Our preprint "Enabling smart radio environments in the frequency domain with movable signals" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Oct 2025: Our paper "Physics-compliant modeling and scaling laws of multi-RIS aided MIMO systems" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
👥 Sep 2025: The IEEE ComSoc Special Interest Group on Analog Computing for Signal Processing and Communications has been established, honored to serve among the officers!
📅 Sep 2025: The BD-RIS Webinar Series 2025, hosted by the IEEE ComSoc special interest group on BD-RIS, has kicked off!
🌳 Sep 2025: I have been added to the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Take a look at my academic genealogy tree and see if we are cousins!
📃 Sep 2025: Our paper "Global optimal closed-form solutions for intelligent surfaces with mutual coupling: Is mutual coupling detrimental or beneficial?" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
💬 Jul 2025: Our paper "Enabling gigantic MIMO beamforming with analog computing" has been accepted for publication in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025!
💬 Jul 2025: Our paper "Analog computing with microwave networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025!
🏆 Jul 2025: I have received the Imperial College London PhD Prize by G-Research in 2025 for the second-best PhD thesis at Imperial!
📝 Jun 2025: Our preprint "MIMO systems aided by microwave linear analog computers: Capacity-achieving architectures with reduced circuit complexity" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Jun 2025: Our preprint "Capacity of MIMO systems aided by microwave linear analog computers (MiLACs)" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
🏆 Jun 2025: I have received the Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize for the best PhD thesis in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial!
📝 May 2025: Our preprint "Analog computing for signal processing and communications - Part II: Toward gigantic MIMO beamforming" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 May 2025: Our preprint "Analog computing for signal processing and communications - Part I: Computing with microwave networks" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Apr 2025: Our preprint "Enabling gigantic MIMO beamforming with analog computing" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Apr 2025: Our preprint "Analog computing with microwave networks" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Feb 2025: Our paper "Dual-polarized beyond diagonal RIS" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📃 Feb 2025: Our paper "Localized and distributed beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces with lossy interconnections: Modeling and optimization" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Commun.!
News 2024
💬 Dec 2024: Our paper "Physics-compliant modeling and scaling laws of multi-RIS aided systems" has been accepted for publication in EuCAP 2025!
📝 Dec 2024: Our preprint "Dual-polarized beyond diagonal RIS" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Nov 2024: Our preprint "Physics-compliant modeling and scaling laws of multi-RIS aided MIMO systems" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Nov 2024: Our preprint "Global optimal closed-form solutions for intelligent surfaces with mutual coupling: Is mutual coupling detrimental or beneficial?" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Oct 2024: Our preprint "Physics-compliant modeling and scaling laws of multi-RIS aided systems" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📅 Oct 2024: We have organized a workshop on "Intelligent surfaces and analog computing for wireless communications" at Imperial College London and remotely on Zoom, welcome to join!
📃 Jun 2024: Our paper "A universal framework for multiport network analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
📃 May 2024: Our paper "Physically consistent modeling of stacked intelligent metasurfaces implemented with beyond diagonal RIS" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📃 May 2024: Our paper "Static grouping strategy design for beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📝 Mar 2024: Our preprint "Static grouping strategy design for beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📝 Feb 2024: Our preprint "Physically consistent modeling of stacked intelligent metasurfaces implemented with beyond diagonal RIS" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Feb 2024: Our paper "Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces utilizing graph theory: Modeling, architecture design, and optimization" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
📝 Feb 2024: Our preprint "Localized and distributed beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces with lossy interconnections: Modeling and optimization" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📅 Jan 2024: The BD-RIS Webinar Series, hosted by the IEEE ComSoc special interest group on BD-RIS, has kicked off!
News 2023
📝 Nov 2023: Our preprint "A universal framework for multiport network analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Sep 2023: Our paper "Pareto frontier for the performance-complexity trade-off in beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett.!
📃 Jul 2023: Our paper "Discrete-value group and fully connected architectures for beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.!
📃 Jun 2023: Our paper "Closed-form global optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.!
📝 May 2023: Our preprint "Pareto frontier for the performance-complexity trade-off in beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
👥 May 2023: The IEEE ComSoc Special Interest Group on BD-RIS has been established, honored to serve among the officers!
📝 May 2023: Our preprint "Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces utilizing graph theory: Modeling, architecture design, and optimization" has been uploaded on Arxiv!
📃 Mar 2023: Our paper "Machine learning for PIN side-channel attacks based on smartphone motion sensors" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access!
📃 Jan 2023: Our paper "Overhead-free blockage detection and precoding through physics-based graph neural networks: LIDAR data meets ray tracing" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett.!