Position Information

Title:

Associate Professor

Research Interests:

Communication and information theory, networking, signal processing, molecular communication, synthetic biology, nanonetworks

Journal Publications

Balasubramaniam, S., Somathilaka, S., Sun, S., A, R. and Pierobon, M. 2023. Realizing Molecular Machine Learning Through Communications for Biological AI. IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, 17, 3, 10-20, doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2023.3262099. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10102367

Catlett, J. L., Carr, S., Cashman, M., Smith, M. D., Walter, M., Sakkaff, Z., Kelley, C., Pierobon, M., Cohen, M. B. and Buan, N. R. 2022. Metabolic Synergy between Human Symbionts Bacteroides and Methanobrevibacter. Microbiology Spectrum, 10, 3, 1067-1089. https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/spectrum.01067-22

Barker, T. S., Pierobon, M. and Thomas, P. J. 2022. Subjective Information and Survival in a Simulated Biological System. Entropy, 24, 5, 639-662. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050639

Barros, M. T., Veletić, M., Kanada, M., Pierobon, M., Vainio, S., Balasingham, I. and Balasubramaniam, S. 2021. Molecular Communications in Viral Infections Research: Modeling, Experimental Data, and Future Directions. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, 7, 3, 121-141, doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2021.3071780. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9405303

Bi, D., Deng, Y., Pierobon, M. and Nallanathan, A. 2020. Chemical Reactions-Based Microfluidic Transmitter and Receiver Design for Molecular Communication. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 68, 9, 5590-5605, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.2993633. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9090868

Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M. and Balasubramaniam, S. 2019. An Information Theoretic Framework to Analyze Molecular Communication Systems Based on Statistical Mechanics. Proceedings of the IEEE, 107, 7, 1230-1255, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2927926. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8768452

Akyildiz, I.F., Chen, J., Ghovanloo, M., Guler, U., Ozkaya-Ahmadov, T., Pierobon, M., Sarioglu, A. F. and Unluturk, B.D. 2019. Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis as a Biomolecular Communication Network for the Internet of Bio-NanoThings. IEEE Access, 7, 161-175, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2942312. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8844707

Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M. and Balasubramaniam, S. 2019. Moving Forward with Molecular Communication: From Theory to Human Health Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 107, 5, 858-865, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2913890. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8710366

Marzo, J.L., Jornet, J.M. and Pierobon, M. 2019. Nanonetworks in Biomedical Applications. Curr Drug Targets, 20, 8, 800-807, doi: 10.2174/1389450120666190115152613. http://www.eurekaselect.com/169016/article

Mucchi, L., Martinelli, A., Jayousi, S., Caputo, S. and Pierobon, M. 2019. Secrecy Capacity and Secure Distance for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication Systems. IEEE Access, 7, 687-697, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2932567. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8784246

Martins, D. P., Barros, M. T., Balasubramaniam, S., Pierobon, M., Kandhavelu, M. and Lio', P. . 2018. Computational Models for Trapping Ebola Virus Using Engineered Bacteria. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 15, 6, 2017-2027, doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2018.2836430. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8359015

Marcone, A., Pierobon, M. and Magarini, M. 2018. Parity-Check Coding Based on Genetic Circuits for Engineered Molecular Communication Between Biological Cells. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 66, 12, 6221-6236, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2859308. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8418677

Chahibi, Y., Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2015. Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Biodistribution Estimation through the Molecular Communication Paradigm. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62, 10, 2410-2420, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2430011. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7103028

Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M., Balasubramaniam, S. and Koucheryavy, Y. 2015. The internet of Bio-Nano things. IEEE Communications Magazine, 53, 3, 32-40, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7060516. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=7060516

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2014. A Statistical-physical Model of Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Nanonetworks. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 62, 6, 2085-2095, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2314650. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6782407

Pierobon, M. 2014. A Systems-Theoretic Model of a Biological Circuit for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier), 5, 25-34, doi: 10.1016/j.nancom.2014.04.002. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878778914000040

Chahibi, Y., Pierobon, M., Song, S. O. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2013. A Molecular Communication System Model for Particulate Drug Delivery Systems. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 60, 12, 3468-3483, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2271503. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6548006

Pierobon, M., Jornet, J. M., Akkari, N., Almasri, S. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2013. A routing framework for energy harvesting wireless nanosensor networks in the Terahertz Band. Wireless Networks (Springer) Journal, 1-15, doi: 10.1007/s11276-013-0665-y. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11276-013-0665-y [Accepted]

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2013. Capacity of a Diffusion-based Molecular Communication System with Channel Memory and Molecular Noise. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 59, 2, 942-954, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2012.2219496. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6305481

Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M. and Alarcon, E. 2013. Detection Techniques for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 31, 12, 726-734, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP2.1213005. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6708553

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2011. Diffusion-based Noise Analysis for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 59, 6, 2532-2547, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2114656. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713270

Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M. and Pierobon, M. 2011. Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications. Communications of the ACM, 54, 11, 84-89, doi: 10.1145/2018396.2018417. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/11/138218-nanonetworks-a-new-frontier-in-communications/fulltext

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2011. Noise Analysis in Ligand-binding Reception for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 59, 9, 4168-4182, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2159497. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5875906

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2010. A Physical End-to-End Model for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 28, 4, 602-611, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.100509. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5452953&tag=1

Conference Publications

Barker, T. S., Thomas, P. J. and Pierobon, M. 2023. A Metric to Quantify Subjective Information in Biological Gradient Sensing. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://globecom2023.ieee-globecom.org/program/technical-program-day-1

Gorla, K. R. and Pierobon, M. 2023. Frequency Analysis of a Redox-Based Molecular-Electrical Communication Channel. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom’23), Coventry, UK, September 2023, 21-26, doi: 10.1145/3576781.3608724 https://doi.org/10.1145/3576781.3608724

Ratti, F., Harper, C., Magarini, M. and Pierobon, M. 2021. Optimizing Information Transfer Through Chemical Channels in Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685247 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9685247

Gorla, K. R. and Pierobon, M. 2021. A Mutual Information Estimate for a Redox-based Molecular-Electrical Communication Channel. In Proceedings of the Eight Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, Virtual Event, Italy, September 2021, 1-2, doi: 10.1145/3477206.3477474 https://doi.org/10.1145/3477206.3477474

Barker, T., Thomas, P. J. and Pierobon, M. 2021. Subjective Information in Life Processes: A Computational Case Study. In Proceedings of the Eight Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, Virtual Event, Italy, September 2021, 1-6, doi: 10.1145/3477206.3477454 https://doi.org/10.1145/3477206.3477454

Gorla, K. R., Barker, T. and Pierobon, M. 2020. Modeling Diffusion and Chemical Reactions to Analyze Redox-Based Molecular-Electrical Communication. In Proceedings of the ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148750 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9148750

Sakkaff, Z., Unluturk, B. and Pierobon, M. 2019. Applying Molecular Communication Theory to Multi-Scale Integrated Models of Biological Pathways. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2019), Dublin, Ireland, 1-2, doi: 10.1145/3345312.3345495 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3345312.3345495

Mucchi, L., Martinelli, A., Caputo, S., Jayousi, S. and Pierobon, M. 2018. Secrecy Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Oulu, Finland, October 2018, 1-5. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1136993

Sakkaff, Z., Immaneni, A. and Pierobon, M. 2018. Applying Molecular Communication Theory to Estimate Information Loss in Cell Signal Transduction: An Approach Based on Cancer Transcriptomics. In Proceedings of the ACM 5th International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2018), Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-7, doi: 10.1145/3233188.3233202 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3233188.3233202

Sakkaff, Z., Immaneni, A. and Pierobon, M. 2018. Estimating the Molecular Information Through Cell Signal Transduction Pathways. In Proceedings of the IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2018), Kalamata, Greece, 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2018.8445884 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8445884

Harper, C., Pierobon, M. and Magarini, M. 2018. Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-cell Molecular Communications: a Computational Approach. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018, Honolulu, HI, 729-737, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8485834 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8485834

Deng, Y, Pierobon, M. and Arumugam, N. 2017. A Microfluidic Feed Forward Loop Pulse Generator for Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), Singapore, 1-7, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8255057 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8255057

Sakkaff, Z., Catlett, J. L., Cashman, M., Pierobon, M., Buan, N., Cohen, M. and Kelley, C. A. 2017. End-to-end Molecular Communication Channels in Cell Metabolism: an Information Theoretic Study. In Proceedings of the ACM 4th International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2017), Washington, DC, 1-6, doi: doi:10.1145/3109453.3109474 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3109474

Marcone, A., Pierobon, M. and Magarini, M. 2017. The Gaussian Approximation in Soft Detection for Molecular Communication Via Biological Circuits. In Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sapporo, Japan, July 2017, 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2017.8227764 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8227764/

Marcone, A., Pierobon, M. and Magarini, M. 2017. A Biological Circuit Design for Modulated Parity-check Encoding in Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017, 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997032 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7997032/

Khodaei, A., Vakilzadian, H. and Pierobon, M. 2017. A Frequency Analysis on Calcium T-type Signaling in the Nervous System. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), Lincoln, NE, May 2017, 640-644, doi: 10.1109/EIT.2017.8053442 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8053442/

Marcone, A., Pierobon, M. and Magarini, M. 2017. A Parity Check Analog Decoder for Molecular Communication based on Biological Circuits. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2017, Atlanta, GA, 1-9, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2017.8057131 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8057131/

Hanisch, N. and Pierobon, M. 2017. Digital Modulation and Achievable Information Rates of Thru-body Haptic Communications. In Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Defense+Security (DCS), 10206, Anaheim, CA, May 2017, 1-13, doi: 10.1117/12.2262842 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/search?term=Digital+modulation+and+achievable+information+rates+of+thru-body+haptic+communications

Cohen, M.B., Firestone, J. and M, P. 2016. The Assurance Timeline: Building Assurance Cases for Synthetic Biology. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE), Trondheim, Norway, September 2016, 75-86, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45480-1_7

Khodaei, A. and Pierobon, M. 2016. Subthreshold Linear Modeling of Dendritic Trees: A Computational Approach. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of IEEE in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, August 2016, 235-238, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590683 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7590683/

Pierobon, M., Sakkaff, Z., Catlett, J.L. and Buan, N.R. 2016. Mutual Information Upper Bound of Molecular Communication Based on Cell Metabolism. In Proceedings of the IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2016), Edinburg, UK, 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2016.7536835 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7536835/

Khodaei, A. and Pierobon, M. 2016. An Intra-body Linear Channel Model Based on Neuronal Subthreshold Stimulation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511483 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7511483/

Laddomada, M. and Pierobon, M. 2015. A Biochemical Filter for Frequency-Based Signal Reception in Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2015, 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417148 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7417148/

Laddomada, M. and Pierobon, M. 2015. A Crosstalk-based Linear Filter in Biochemical Signal Transduction Pathways for the Internet of Bio-things. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 5520-5524, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179027 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7179027

Pierobon, M. 2014. A Molecular Communication System Model Based on Biological Circuits. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NANOCOM 2014), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2-8, doi: 10.1145/2619955.2619958 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2619958

Chahibi, Y. and Pierobon, M. 2013. Molecular communication model of nanoparticle-body interactions in Particulate Drug Delivery Systems. In Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems , Pacific Grove, CA, November 2013, 1051-1055, doi: 10.1109/ACSSC.2013.6810452 http://140.98.202.196/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6810452&searchWithin%3Dp_Authors%3A.QT.Pierobon%2C+M..QT

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2012. Intersymbol and Co-channel Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), ICC, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012, 6126-6131, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364970 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6364970

Llatser, I., Alarcon, E. and Pierobon, M. 2011. Diffusion-based Channel Characterization in Molecular Nanonetworks. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011, 467-472, doi: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928858 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5928858

Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F. 2011. Information Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, INFOCOM, Miniconference, Shanghai, China, April 2011, 506-510, doi: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935214 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5935214

Garralda, N., Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A. and Pierobon, M. 2011. Simulation-based Evaluation of the Diffusion-based Physical Channel in Molecular Nanonetworks. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011, 443-448, doi: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928854 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5928854

Llatser, I., Pascual, I., Garralda, N., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., Alarcón, E. and Solé-Pareta, J. 2011. Exploring the Physical Channel of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication by Simulation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, USA, 2011, 1-5, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134028 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6134028

Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M. and Pierobon, M. 2010. Propagation Models for Nanocommunication Networks. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Barcelona, Spain, April 2010, 1-5. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5505714

Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S. 2008. 3D Markerless Human Limb Localization through Robust Energy Minimization. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France, October 2008, 1-12. http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/32/67/57/PDF/1569140040.pdf

Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S. 2007. Classification OF Human Body Actions by Invariant Body Shape Descriptor. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems (ICOB), Berlin, Germany, October 2007, 1-4. http://home.deib.polimi.it/sarti/CV_and_publications_files/2005_ICOB_classification_action_invariant_body_shape_descriptors.pdf

Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S. 2007. A Human Action Classifier from 4-D Data (3-D+Time) Based on an Invariant Body Shape Descriptor and Hidden Markov Models. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007, 406-413. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sigmap/sigmap2007.html#PierobonMST07

Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S. 2006. 3-D Body Posture Tracking for Human Action Template Matching. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2, Toulouse, France, May 2006, 501-504, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660389 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1660389

Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S. 2005. Clustering of Human Actions using Invariant Body Shape Descriptor and Dynamic Time Warping. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advance Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Como, Italy, 2005, 22-27, doi: 10.1109/AVSS.2005.1577237 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1577237

Books Authored

Pierobon, Massimiliano and Akyildiz, Ian F. 2014. Fundamentals of Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. Now Publishers Inc, Delft, The Netherlands . doi: ISBN-10: 1601988168, ISBN-13: 978-1601988164 http://amzn.com/1601988168

Chapters Authored

Akyildiz, I.F. and Jornet, J.M. and Pierobon, M. 2018. Nanonetworks. In Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_215-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_215-1