👋🏻 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 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 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.
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.
📃 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!
🏆 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.!
📃 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!
📃 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.!