Kofi Makinwa

  Luca Benini

  Professor of Digital Circuits and Systems

  Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ)

  [email protected]

Biography

Luca Benini is Professor of digital Circuits and systems at ETHZ. He is also professor at University of Bologna and he is currently serving as Chief Architect for the Platform2012/ST HORM project in STmicroelectronics, Grenoble. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1997.
Prof. Benini’s research interests are in energy-efficient system design and Multi-Core SoC design.
He is also active in the area of energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks for biomedical and ambient intelligence applications.
He has published more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, four books and several book chapters (h-index 69). He has been general chair and program chair of the Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference. He has been a member of the technical program committee and organizing committee of several conferences, including the Design Automation Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Design, the Symposium on Hardware-Software Codesign. He has been Associate Editor of several international journals, including the the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Circuits and Systems and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Academia Europaea and has served for two terms as a member of the steering board of the ARTEMISIA European Association on Advanced Research & Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems.