Northeastern 1st Summer School of Vibrometry

Matteo Rinaldi is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeatern University and Director of the Institute for Nanosystems Innovation (NanoSI). Matteo Rinaldi received his first-level (B.S.) and second-level (M.Sc.) Laurea degrees in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2010. His research interests primarily include Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) devices with particular emphasis on Aluminum Nitride (AlN) piezoelectric NEMS sensors for physical, chemical and biological detection, AlN Radio Frequency MEMS/NEMS devices, micro/nano fabrication techniques and integration of MEMS/NEMS devices with electronics. He has authored more than 20 publications in the aforementioned research areas and also holds 3 device patent applications in the field of micro/nano mechanical resonant devices.

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/   

Jonathan Oliveira Luiz is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Research Assistant at both the Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micromechatronics (CHSLT) and Mass Eye and Ear. His research focuses on using high-speed optical techniques—including 3D Digital Image Correlation and Laser Doppler Vibrometry—to investigate the mechanical response of the human middle ear under moderate to high sound levels.

Celso T. do Cabo is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his Master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2023 and his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos in 2017.