Gianluca Furano

Gianluca Furano PhD in Microelec-tronics Engineering, works in European Space Agency's Data System Division since 2003. He is in charge of operational missions as well as research and development activities and he coordi-nates ESA activities on on-board artifi-cial intelligence. Among Gianluca's in-terest in ESA are on-board data handling systems and their major components, such as space grade microprocessors and support electronics, meeting very stringent requirements in terms of radiation tolerance, reliability, availability, and safety; key avionics building blocks such as platform mass memories, remote terminal units, on-board buses and data networks; on-board and space to ground data communication protocols including protocol security aspects. Gianluca also provides support to European standardisation (CCSDS, ECSS) in areas such as telemetry, telecommand and on-board data, wireless and monitoring control interfaces. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications