Bio

Research Interests

Research area1: Embedded systems, IoT and edge computing, Reliable and Real-Time systems, Cybersecurity
Research area2: High Performance Computing, Run-Time resource management, parallel computing, multi-many core architectures
Research area3: Energy aware design of Hw-Sw Systems, Power Management, Thermal Management

Education

1992 PhD Degree in Ingegneria Informatica ed Automatica (Computer Engineering), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
1989 Master of Science Degree in Ingegneria Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. (Final Grade 100/100 cum Laude).

Record of employment

2001 – today Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB). Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
1995 – 2001 Assistant Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB). Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
1992 – 1995 Head of the Embedded Systems Unit at CEFRIEL
1995 – 2007 Head of the Embedded Systems Unit and Scientific Mentor at CEFRIEL
(www.cefriel.it, it is one of the technology transfer centers of Politecnico di Milano), Milano, Italy
1989 – 1992 Ph.D. Student, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB). Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
1989 – 1993 Design Engineer at Ing Caprio & C. srl, Concorezzo (MB).

Awards and Recognitions

2020 Nomination for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE IGSC 2020 Conference (refused for conflict of interest).
2019 Winner of the Switch2Product (S2P) - Innovation Challenge competition in 2019. Organizers: Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the Politecnico di Milano, Deloitte - Officine Innovazione and PoliHUB. https://s2p.it.
2019 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology "OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD" - Event-Based Power/Performance-Aware Thermal Management for High-Density Microprocessors, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 26, No. 2, pages 535-550, 2018.
2016 Technology Transfer Award: "Insurance Telematics for Reduced Cost of Ownership". HiPEAC Network of Excellence. www.hipeac.net
2012 Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC)
2011 Member of the EU Network of Excellence HiPEAC. www.hipeac.net (scientific threshold required)
2002 Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA)
2000 "Giovani Ricercatori (Young Researchers)" Competitive grant for the scientific project: "Riuso di celle IP (Intellectual Properties) per progetti hardware: metriche di analisi e modelli di costo". Politecnico di Milano.
1998 Best Paper Award Conf. IEEE- ICCD’98 (International Conference on Computer Design)
1995 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – “Certificate of Appreciation” for services rendered as General Chairman, Intl Workshop on Hardware/Software co-design 1995.
1995 Best Paper Award Conf. ICONIP’95 (Inl Conf on Neural Information Processing)
1992 Best Paper Award: Intl IEEE Conference IJCNN’92. (Int. Joint Conf on Neural Networks)

Talks, keynotes, seminars (selection past 10 years)

2020 HiPEAC 2020 Tutorial “A Run-time Managed Programming Approach to Computing Continuum”
2019 Keynote speech. “Opportunities and challenges to design an open-hardware SoC in the IoT era”, PDP 2019, 27th Euromicro on Parallel, Distributed and Network Based processing, Pavia, February 14th, 2019.
2017 Invited Speaker “Creating a startup: a step-by-step “design experience” from the perspective of an academic cofounder”, TISU - Workshop on Transfer to Industry and Start-Ups, Hipeac 2017. Stockolm, Sweden, January 25, 2017.
2013 Keynote speech. "Targeting Applications and Platform Variability Challenges: The BarbequeRTRM approach", 8th Int.l. Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication Centric Systems-on-Chip - ReCoSoC 2013, Darmstadt, Germany, July 11th, 2013.
2015 Keynote speech. "An Accurate Simulation Framework for Thermal Explorations and Optimizations", DAC 2015 Workshop "System-to-Silicon Performance Modeling and Analysis - Power, Temperature and Reliability", June 7, 2015 - San Francisco, CA, USA.
2016 Invited Talk. “From Embedded systems to high performance computing”. Chiesi Farmaceutici Spa Annual Meeting, June 9, 2016, Parma Italy.
2015 Invited Talk. "HARPA: Harnessing Performance Variability", Hipeac Computing System Workshop (CSW) & Block Review, Thematic Session on FP7 projects HARPA, CLERECO and EXCESS; Convergence, Perspectives and Joint Vision. Oslo, May 4-8, 2015.
2014 Invited Talk. “Management of mixed criticality and reliability at run-time: the HARPA approach in Thematic Session on mixed criticality/reliability - Real-Time and Reliability Cross Domain Challenges”. HiPEAC CSW and block review, Barcelona May 13-15 2014.
2014 Invited Talk. "Run-time management of multi-core architectures using the BBQ framework: Targeting Applications and Platform “Variability” Challenges", ChipEx14, Conf. of the Israeli Microelectronics Industry, Tel Aviv, Apr 30, 2014.
2014 Invited Talk. "Overview of competencies on Embedded System and Computer Architecture", Fostering Innovation for Cyber-Physical Systems, Advanced Computing & Manufacturing: Opportunities under Horizon 2020 LEIT-ICT Work Programme 2014/15, Feb 19-20, Brussels, 2014.
2013 Invited Talk. Day 1 - Success stories of technology adoption - 2PARMA, Day 2- Session 2: Embedded Multi-Core Platforms - taking stock of achievements and economic perspectives: 2PARMA and HARPA , Cyber-Physical Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity, Brussels, Oct 29-30, 2013.
2012 Invited Talk. "2PARMA Project", REFLECT and 2PARMA Fall 2012 School: Programming Paradigms for MultiCore Embedded Systems, Freustadt, Germany, Oct 2-5, 2012.
2012 Invited Talk. "System-Wide run-time resource management for multi-many cores in the 2PARMA Project" - HiPEAC Computing Systems Week; Session on Power-Efficiency and Program Correctness Analysis for Scalable Multicores, April 2012, Göteborg, Sweden, Apr 24-25, 2012.
2010 Invited Talk. “2PARMA Overview”, HiPEAC Innovation Event - Session on FP7 European Projects, May 3-5, 2010 Edinburgh, UK.
2009 Invited Talk. “System-wide run-time resources management”, NEC-Labs at Princeton, NJ, USA, Dec 16th, 2009.
2009 Invited Talk. “System-wide run-time resources management” Princeton University, NJ, USA, Dec 15th, 2009.
2007 Invited Talk. "Digital Vehicular Dashboard", Telemobility Forum Europeo 2007. Monza, Italia, 14-15 Nov., 2007.
2007 Invited Talk. "Software: modello di sviluppo nelle applicazioni per gli apparecchi elettrodomestici", Istituto italiano del marchio di qualità (IMQ), May 18 2007, Milan, Italy.