Cesare Alippi was born in Lecco (LC) on March the 1st 1966.

1985-1990 M.Eng Summa cum Laude, Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Thesis Title: "Problems posed by non-linearities in Artificial Neural Networks with respect to their silicon implementation".

1990-1992: Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
1993 - 1993: Honorary Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.

1991-1995 Ph.D in Computer and Control Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Thesis "Optimisation of Feedforward Neural Networks: A Study of Learning, Dimensionality, and Sensitivity Related Issues".

April- July 1994: Visiting Researcher, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

1991-1995: Assistant Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

1996-1998: Research Scientist, Italian National Research Council, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

1996-1998: Reader, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

1998-2002: Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2002- : Full Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2010: Frédéric Joliot-Curie Fellowship, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Neural Networks, member of the Board of Directors of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS).