Background
Alfonso Farina was born in Petrella Salto, a small town near Rieti in 1948.
Alfonso Farina was born in Petrella Salto, a small town near Rieti in 1948.
He is most noted for the development of the track while scan techniques for radars and generally for the development of a wide range of signal processing techniques used for sensors where tracking plays an essential role. He is author of more than 550 publications. His work was aimed to a synergistic cooperation between industry and academy.
He obtained a laurea in electronic engineering on 1973 at University Louisiana Sapienza in Rome.
In 1974 he joined Selenia, a Finmeccanica company then become Selex Exact Sciences. Here he held the role of director of the analysis of integrate systems unit and then chief engineer of large business systems division. More recently, he has been the senior VP Chief Technology Officer of the company and then senior advisor to the Chief Technology Officer. From 1979 to 1985 he held the chair of associate professor of radar techniques at the University of Naples.
Farina is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow since 2000 and International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2005, the latter with the citation "Distinguished for outstanding and continuous innovative in the development of radar signal and data processing techniques and application of these findings in practical systems". He received the award from the hands of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. From 1997 he is Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology . Since 2010 he is also Fellow of EURASIP. He won the following awards: Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, 1987, with the motivation Foreign development of radar data processing techniques. Honour of Maestro del Lavoro with decoration of "Stella al Merito del Lavoro" presented to him by the President of Italian Republic in recognition of his outstanding professional career, 2003. First Prize Award for Innovation Technology of Finmeccanica Group, 2004, team leader of the winner team presented by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Scientific Research. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, 2010, with the motivation Foreign continuous, innovative, theoretical and practical contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques. The Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medals, 2014, with the motivation Foreign outstanding contributions to radar system design, signal, data and image processing and data fusion.
