Northeastern 1st Summer School of Vibrometry

Matteo Rinaldi is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Northeastern University and the Director of the Kostas Nanotechnology Laboratory (NU Cleanroom) and the Founding Director of the Northeastern University Institute for Nano Systems Innovation (NanoSI) a university-wide institute that, by fostering partnership between university, industry and government stakeholders, focuses on the discovery, pilot manufacturing and rapid transition of new micro and nano systems technologies that are foundational for emerging paradigms like zero-power sensing, 5G/6G communications, artificial intelligence, quantum information science and nanomedicine. Dr. Rinaldi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in December 2010. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in January 2012. Dr. Rinaldi’s group has been actively working on experimental research topics and practical applications to ultra-low power MEMS/NEMS sensors (infrared, magnetic, chemical and biological), plasmonic micro and nano electromechanical devices, medical micro systems and implantable micro devices for intra-body networks, reconfigurable radio frequency devices and systems, phase change material switches, 2D material enabled micro and nano mechanical devices. The research in Dr. Rinaldi’s group is supported by several Federal grants (including DARPA, DoD, ARPA-E, NSF, DHS, NIH, ARPA-H), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Keck Foundation with funding of $40+M since 2012. Dr. Rinaldi has co-authored more than 250 publications in the aforementioned research areas and also holds 18 patents and more than 10 device patent applications in the field of MEMS/NEMS. Dr. Rinaldi is a Fellow of Optica and he was the recipient of the IEEE UFFC Cady Award 2025, the IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award in 2015, the NSF CAREER Award in 2014 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award class of 2012.

Philip Feng is currently a Wally Rhines Endowed Professor in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Graduate Faculty Professor in Department of Physics at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2007.  His group’s research has been primarily focused on device physics and engineering of advanced MEMS/NEMS transducers for information processing in both classical and quantum regimes, by harnessing properties of new materials and coherent signal transduction schemes, especially those in wide/ultrawide-bandgap (WBG/UWBG) materials, 2D materials and heterostructures.  He has graduated 17 Ph.D. students, mentored >12 postdoctoral scholars, and supervised over 16 M.S. students with theses or research projects.  His selected awards or recognitions include the National Aademcy of Engineering (NAE) Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Award, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and several Best Paper Awards (with his students) at IEEE and other international conferences.  He has served on the international steering committee (ISC) for IEEE MEMS and Transducers conferences, and the executive and/or technical program committees for IEEE IEDM/MEMS/Transducers/IFCS-EFTF.  He was a conference chair for IEEE MEMS 2021.  He has been an organizer and co-chair for the SiC+X Workshop (a forum focused on the frontiers of SiC & related materials, devices, & systems) since 2017. He co-organized and co-chaired the Florida Semiconductor Week 2023, and the Florida Quantum Summit 2025.

Linbo Shao is an Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliated with Department of Physics at Virginia Tech and a faculty member of Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (VTQ). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science in 2019 and M.S. in Applied Physics in 2016 from Harvard University, and B.S. in microelectronics in 2014 from Peking University. His current research interests include lithium niobate integrated acoustic-wave and acousto-optic devices for sensing, computing, and quantum applications. Group website: https://shaogroup.ece.vt.edu/   

Dr. Yizheng Zhu is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads projects on optical sensing and imaging. His research focuses on optical interferometry, precision metrology, phase microscopy, and fiber sensors. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Prior to rejoining the university, he conducted research in biomedical optics at Duke University. His recent work focuses on the development of high-speed vibrometry systems.

Daniel Ruiz-Cadalso is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Research Assistant at the Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micromechaTronics (CHSLT). His interests include research, development, and implementation of high-resolution optical techniques for industrial applications, focusing on interferometric techniques such as Digital Holographic Interferometry, Laser Shearography, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry (SLDV).