Gianluca Setti is the Dean of the Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST. Before moving to KAUST, he was with the University of Ferrara (1997-2017) and with Politecnico di Torino (2017-2022) as a Professor of Electronics, Signal and Data Processing. He held also several positions as Visiting Professor/Scientist at EPFL (2002, 2005), UCSD (2004), IBM (2004, 2007) and at University of Washington, Seattle (2008, 2010).

He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part II (2006-2007) and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I (2008-2009). From 2019 to 2024 he is the first non US Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the IEEE, the flagship journal of the IEEE.

He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society (2004-2005 and 2013-2014), a member of the CASS Board of Governors (2005-2008) of the same Society, and served as the 2010 CAS Society President.

In 2012, he was the Chair of the IEEE Strategic Planning Committee of the Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB-SPC) and in 2013-2014 he was the first non North-American Vice President of the IEEE for Publication Services and Products.

Dr. Setti received several awards, including the 2004 IEEE CAS Society Darlington Award, 2013 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, 2013 IEEE CAS Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, and the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award. Since 2006, he is also a Fellow of the IEEE.

His research interests include recurrent neural networks, EMC, compressive sensing and statistical signal processing, biomedical circuits and systems, power electronics, IoT, circuits and systems for machine learning, and applications of AI techniques for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.