Franco Di Pietro

Postdoc - CONICET

Adjunct Professor - UNR

About me

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the French Argentine International Center for Information and Systems Sciences (CIFASIS) under the direction of Dr. Ernesto Kofman.

I hold an Adjunct Professor position at Universidad Nacional de Rosario in the Department of Mathematics. I'm currently teaching the Informatics course, common to all engineering programs.

Education

PhD in Engineering

2014 - Present

Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario. CIFASIS-CONICET
Group: Simulation and control of dynamic systems

Thesis: Efficient simulation of stiff discontinuous systems. [ pdf in spanish ]
Abstract: In this Thesis, new numerical integration methods for ordinary differential equations are proposed. These methods combine the ideas of classic discrete time and state quantization-based methods.
As a first result, we propose an extension to linearly implicit quantized state system algorithms that avoids the appearence of spurious oscillations in the integration of certain stiff systems. Under the detection of oscillations, this algorithm performs a classic method step on a pair of states avoiding the problem. It is shown that the use of this algorithm is particularly useful for the simulation of switched circuits in presence of parasitic components.
The second contribution of the Thesis is a mixed algorithm that splits a model so that a subsystem is integrated using quantized state systems methods and the remaining subsystem is integrated with a classic algorithm. This algorithm then exploits the advantages of both approaches, improving the overall simulation performance in several applications, particularly in multidomain problems.
Theoretical convergence and stability results for the mixed numerical integration scheme are also obtained. In addition, the efficiency of the proposed methods is verified by comparisons of performance with respect to classical methods and methods based on quantification.

Electronic Engineering

2007 - 2013

Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario.

Teaching

Adjunct Professor

2017 - Present

Informatics. Department of Mathematics.
Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Teaching assistant

2014 - 2017

Informatics. Department of Mathematics.
Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Research visits

arg The Advanced Real-Time Simulation Laboratory

november 2016 - december 2016

Carleton University, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.
Ottawa, Canada.
Invited by: Dr. Gabriel Wainer

arg Laboratoire CITI

march 2013 - august 2013

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) Lyon, SOCRATE Team, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
Lyon, France.

Scholarships

Doctoral finalization

2017 - 2019

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET - Argentina)

Doctoral initial

2014 - 2017

National Agency for Scientific and Technical Promotion (ANPCyT - Argentina)

Research Internship

march 2013 - august 2013

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA - France)

Publications

Simulación eficiente de circuitos de electrónica conmutada en presencia de elementos parásitos [ pdf | bib | pres ]

2018

Proceedings of AADECA 2018.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Improving Linearly Implicit Quantized State System Methods [ pdf | bib ]

2018

Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Improving a Linearly Implicit Quantized State System Method [ pdf | bib | pres ]

2016

Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2016.
Arlington, VA, USA.

Display de persistencia a la visión aplicado a transportes urbanos [ pdf | bib ]

2012

III Congreso de Microelectrónica Aplicada
Rosario, Argetina.

Informatics course material

C language (spanish) [ pdf ]

2016

Presentation: Hardware, Software and Networks (spanish) [ pdf ]

2017

Presentation: Introduction to Informatics (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Presentation: Algorithmic expressions (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Presentation: Algorithms and pseudocode (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Presentation: Structured programming (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Presentation: Data structures (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Presentation: Search and sort algorithms (spanish) [ pdf ]

2018

Video: Introduction to Code::Blocks (spanish) [ youtube ]

2017

Key Skills

  • Simulation
  • M&S
  • Programming
  • Power electronics
  • Teaching

CONICET         UNR