Giovanni De Micheli#

Biography#

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).

Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE and a member of the Academia Europaea. His research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies, networks on chips and 3D integration. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of eight other books and of over 400 technical articles.

Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. He received the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE CAS Society in 2000. He received the 1987 D. Pederson Award for the best paper on the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS, two Best Paper Awards at the Design Automation Conference, in 1983 and in 1993, and a Best Paper Award at the DATE Conference in 2005.

He has been serving IEEE in several capacities, namely: Division 1 Director (2008-9), co-founder and President Elect of the IEEE Council on EDA (2005-7), President of the IEEE CAS Society (2003), Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS (1987-2001). He has been Chair of several conferences, including DATE (2010), pHealth (2006), VLSI SOC (2006), DAC (2000) and ICCD (1989). He is a founding member of the ALaRI institute at Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (USI), in Lugano, Switzerland, where he is currently scientific counselor.

Curriculum vitae#

Present position

• Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
• Director, Integrated System Centre, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
• Director, Institute of Electrical Engineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
• President, Scientific Council of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland

• Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Japan, (3/08 - )
• Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford (9/96 - 12/04)
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland, (9/01 - 6/02)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (9/89 - 8/96)
• Guest Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Delft University, Delft, The Netherlands (8/94-10/94)
• Guest Scholar, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4/92 -6/92)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (1/87 - 8/89)
• Project Leader: D.A. Workstations, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, (3/85 - 12/86)
• Research Staff Member, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, (1/84 - 2/85)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, (7/83 - 1/84)
• Consultant in residence, Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne, FL, (9/81 - 12/81)

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, (1983)
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, (1980)
• Dr. Eng. in Nuclear Engineering (summa cum laude) at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, (1979)

• IEEE Emanuel Piore Award, for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems, (2003)
• Golden Jubilee Medal of the IEEE CAS Society, for outstanding contributions to the CAS Society, (2000)
• ACM Fellow, (2000)
• IEEE Fellow, (1994)
• Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, (1993)
• IEEE/CS Distinguished Service Award, (1990)
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, (1988)
• Best Paper Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS, (1987)
• Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, (1983)
• Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE DATE, (2005)

• Division 1 Director, IEEE, 2008-2009.
• President Elect of the IEEE Council on EDA, 2005-2007
• Chair of the IEEE Product Package Committee, 2005-2006
• President of the IEEE Circuit and System Society, 2003
• Vice President, Publications of the IEEE Circuit and System Society, (1999-2000)
• Chair of IEEE-CAS CANDE Technical Committee, (1995 - 1997)
• Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (2005 -)
• Member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Circuit and Systems Society, (1995 - 1997)
• Member of the IEEE Circuit & Systems and Computer Societies
• Member of ACM
• Member of Work Group 10.5 of the International Federation for Information Processing, (1992 -)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the New York Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society, (1985-1987)

• General Chair of the DATE Conference, Munich, 2010
• Program Chair of the pHealth Conference, Luzern, 2006
• Program Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI SOC Conference, Nice, 2006
• General Chair of the ACM/IEEE DAC Conference, Los Angeles, 2000
• Program Chair - Design Tools of the ACM/IEEE DAC Conference, (1996-97)
• Co-director and lecturer at the Advanced Study Institute on Hardware-Software Co-design Tremezzo, Italy, sponsored by NATO, (1995)
• Technical Chair and General Chair of the IEEE ICCD Conference, (1988 and 1989)
• Co-director and lecturer at the Advanced Study Institute on Logic Synthesis and Silicon Compilation, L'Aquila, Italy, sponsored by NATO (1986) and (1987)
• Editor in Chief: IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS (1997 - 2001)
• Associate editor:
• Design Automation for Embedded systems (1993 - )
• Integration: the VLSI Journal (1991 - 2001)
• IEEE Proceedings (1992 - 1999)
• IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (1992 - 1996)
• Journal of System Architecture (1995 - 1996)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1991 - 1993)
• IEEE Design and Test magazine (1987-1991)

• DATE (1999 -)
• ACM/IEEE ISLPED Conference (1999 - 2002)
• IEEE ICCD Conference (1985-1989)
• IEEE EURODAC (1994 - 1996)
• ACM/IEEE ICCAD Conference (1987-1994)
• ACM/IEEE DAC Conference (1990-1997)
• EDCT (1995)

• Waseda University (2005 -).
• University of Catania (1999,2000).
• ENST, Paris (1995).
• Politecnico di Milano (1994).
• Politecnico di Torino (1993).
• University of Bologna (1988,1990,1992).
• Digital Equipment Corporation - VLSI course (1987-1990).

• Over four hundred technical publications, including nine books.
• Patent No.986637, Chamber of Commerce of Milano, Italy. Electronic alarm system.
• U.S. Patent No.6,467,075, Resolution of dynamic memory allocation/deallocation and pointers.
• Three other patents pending.