Assistant Professor
Institute of Mechanical Intelligence
Yonas Seifu Muanenda
Bio
Dr. Yonas Muanenda completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering at Hawassa University in 2007, and after working as a supervising engineer at Ethiopian Telcom. Corp., earned the joint International Masters Degree in Computer Science and Networking from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) and University of Pisa, Italy in 2010, graduating with 110/110 sum cum laude in 2012. He then joined the PhD in Emerging Digital Technologies (Photonic Technologies Curriculum) at the SSSA, completing his doctoral thesis with 100/100 sum cum laude in 2016. He was also a visiting research scientist at the Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing in Berlin for 7 months, Germany in 2016.
Currently, he is an assistant professor of Electronic Engineering at the Institute of Mechanical Intelligence of the SSSA, where he is involved in research and academic activities focused on advanced distributed fiber optic sensing systems, mainly focusing on techniques for enhancing the performance and reducing the cost and size of interrogation units for Distributed Acoustic Sensing, as well as their synergy with cloud storage and computing systems. He is also a member of the university’s Interdisciplinary Center for Sustainability and Climate. He has collaborated with various researchers in Italy, Germany, China, Spain in research research actibities with resultant contributions published in high-impact factor journals and international conferences in optics, photonics and sensing. Dr. Muanenda has also been involved in the organization of a symposium in distributed optical fiber sensing an serves as member of a technical program committee and a seession chair in conferences in optical fiber sensing.
Since 2019, Dr. Muanenda has also been participating in and coordinating Erasmus+ student/staff exchange mobility projects between universities in Africa & Latin America and the SSSA, having already made three staff missions abroad for teaching and training in the area of fiber optic systems and contributed to the initiation of links with other universities in various desciplines.
Research
-Advanced distributed, dynamic fiber optic sensing systems
-Techniques for enhancing the performance and reducing the cost and size of
interrogation units for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) based on Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
-Use of cloud storage and computing systems in distributed sensing
-Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry