Former graduates and thesis filed
Giovanni De Micheli
Doctoral degree honoris causa
EPFL
- Jerry Yang - October 2010
Present Position: Founder and Chief Yahoo!
Doctoral degrees
Stanford (Principal Adviser)
- David Ku - Constrained Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Integrated Circuits
From Behavioral Specifications - June 1991.
Present Position: Corporate Vice President, Microsoft.
- Frederic Mailhot -
Technology Mapping for VLSI Circuits Exploiting Boolean Properties and Operations - December 1991.
Present position: EE Dept. Chair and Professor, University of Sherbrook, Canada.
- Paul Song - New Circuits and Structures for Combinational Multipliers - March 1993.
Present position: Director of Non-Volatile Memory Design, Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Rajesh Gupta -
Co-synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems - December 1993.
Present position: Professor, University of California at San Diego. Associate Director, Qualcomm Institute California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
- Maurizio Damiani -
Synthesis and Optimization of Synchronous Logic Circuits. - August 1994.
Present position: Senior R&D Engineer, Synopsys.
- Polly Siegel -
Automatic Technology Mapping for Asynchronous Designs . March 1995.
Present Position: Google, CA.
- Claudionor Coelho -
Analysis and synthesis of concurrent digital systems using control-flow expressions. March 1996.
Present position: Google, CA.
- Luca Benini -
Automatic Synthesis of Sequential Circuits for Low Power Dissipation . March 1997.
Present position: Professor, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland.
- Vincent Mooney - Hardware/Software Co-Design of Run-Time Systems
Present position: Associate Professor, Department of EE, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Jim Smith -
Allocation and Interface Synthesis Algorithms for Component-Based Design , November, 1999.
Present Position: Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Menlo Park, California
- Tajana Simunic -
Energy Efficient System Design and Utilization , March, 2001.
Present Position: Professor, University of California, San Diego.
- Luc Semeria -
Applying Pointer Analysis to the Synthesis of Hardware from C, June, 2001.
Present Position: Technical Staff, Apple Inc.
- Yung Hsiang Lu -
Power-Award Operating Systems for Interactive Systsems , December 2001.
Present Position: Professor, Purdue University.
- Eui-Young Chung -
Software Approaches for Energy-Efficient System Design , June 2002.
Present Position: Professor, Yonsei University, Korea.
- Armita Peymandoust -
Symbolic algorithms for Embedded System Design , June 2003.
Present Position: Director, Salesforce, San Francisco.
- Terry Tao Ye -
On-chip multiprocessor communication network design and analysis December 2003.
Present Position: Professor, Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology of China, China.
- Sungroh Yoon -
Genomic Data Mining Enhanced by Symbolic Manipulation of Boolean Functions, October 2005.
Present Position: Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul.
- Srinivasan Murali -
Methodologies for Reliable and Efficient Design of Networks on Chip, October 2005.
Present Position: CEO Smartcardia, Lausanne.
EPFL - LSI (Principal Adviser unless specified)
- Abhishek Garg -
Implicit Methods for Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks, July 2009.
Present Position: CTO, ZUM, CA, USA.
- Haykel Ben Jamaa -
Fabrication and Design of Nanoscale Regular Circuits, July 2009.
Present Position: Key Account Manager, Sensirion, Zurich.
- Francesco Zanini -
Design of Thermal Management Control Policies for Multiprocessor Systems on Chip, December 2011.
Present Position: CEO, Novaprecisio, Italy.
- Ciprian Seiculescu -
Design Methods and Tools for Application-Specific Predictable Networks on Chips, June 2012.
Present Position: Lecturer, University of Timisoara, Rumenia.
- Cristina Boero -
Electrochemical Biosensors for On-line Monitoring of Cell Culture Metabolism, November 2012.
Present Position: Bio-rad, Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Xu Hu -
Modeling and Design Techniques for 3-D ICs under Process, Voltage, and Temperature Variations, November 2012.
Present Position: Senior Design Engineer, Nvidia, CA, USA.
- Andrea Cavallini -
An implantable biosensor array for personalized therapy applications, June 2013.
Present Position: R&D project manager, Covance, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Shashikanth Bobba -
Design Methodologies and CAD for Emerging Technologies, June 2013.
Present Position: CEO, Mindmaze, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Davide Sacchetto -
Multi-Terminal Ambipolar Memristive Devices for Emerging Logic and Memory Architectures, September 2013.
Present Position: CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland.(CoAdvised. Principal Adviser Y. Leblebici)
- Jacopo Olivo -
Remote Powering and Communication of Implantable Biosensors Through Inductive Link, November 2013.
Present Position: Research Engineer, Logitech, Switzerland.
- Wenqi You -
An Algorithmic Approach to Personalized Drug Concentration Predictions, December 2013.
Present Position: Research Engineer, Sophia Genetics SA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Gozen Koklu Design and Implementation of CMOS Image Sensors for Biomedical Applications., May 2014.
Present position: IC Design Engineer, Heptagon, Zurich, Switzerland. (Advisers Y. Leblebici and S.Carrara).
- Giulia Beanato: Speed/Power/Area Trade-offs for High Speed Inter Layer Data Transmission in 3D Stacked ICs, August 2014.
Present position: ABB Turgi, Switzerland. (CoAdvised, Principal Adviser Y. Leblebici)
- Somayyeh Rahimian Omam Signaling in 3D Integrated Circuits, Benefits and Challenges, May 2015.
Present position: Itom, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
- Sara Seyedeh Ghoreishizadeh: Integrated Electronics to Control and Readout Electrochemical Biosensors for Implantable Applications March 2015.
Present position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University College,London, UK
- Julien Ghaye Image processing on reconfigurable hardware for continuous monitoring of fluorescent biomarkers in cell cultures. May 2015.
Present position: Digital Hardware Engineer, Meggitt, Fribourg, Switzerland.(CoAdvised, Principal Adviser S. Carrara)
- Camilla Baj-Rossi Implantable Multi-panel Platform for Continuous Monitoring of Exogenous and Endogenous Metabolites
for Applications in Personalized Medicine September 2015. Ville de Lausanne Thesis Award 2016.
Present Position: Clinical DB Designer, Covance, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Irene Taurino Carbon and Platinum Nanostructured Electrodes on Miniaturized Devices for Biomedical Diagnosis September 2015.
Present position: Assistant Professor, K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
- Michele De Marchi Polarity Control at Runtime: form Circuit Concept to device Fabrication October 2015.
Present Position: ESPROS Photonics, San Gallen, Switzerland.
- Luca Amaru New Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis and Verification December 2015.
EDAA Thesis Award 2016.
Present position: Executive Director, Synopsys Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA
- Jian Zhang Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistors for High Computational Density and Low Power Consumption January 2016
Present position: Senior Engineer, Huawei, China.
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- Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits April 2016
Present Position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Padeborn, Germany.
- Francesca Puppo SiNW-based Biosensors for Profiling Biomarkers in Brest Tumor Tissues May 2016
Present Position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of California at San Diego, USA.
- Nima Aliakbarinodehi Ultra Selective and Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Anti-Cancer and Anti-Viral Drugs by Optimized Nano-Bio-Sensors June 2017. (Coadvised. Principal Adviser S. Carrara).
Present Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Chalmers University, Sweden.
- Ioulia Tzouvadaki Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds. August 2017. (Coadvised. Principal Adviser S. Carrara).
EPFL/EDMI Thesis Distinction 2018.
Present Position: Assistant Professor, University of Ghent, Belgium.
- Stefanos Skalistis Efficient Adaptive Hard Real-time Multi-processor Systems, November 2017. (Co-advised. Principal Adviser J. Sifakis).
Present Position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Rennes, France.
- Xifan Tang Circuit Design, Architecture and CAD for RRAM-based FPGAs, November 2017. (Co-advised with Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon).
Present Position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Utah, USA.
- Francesca Stradolini IoT Bio-Electronic Multi-Panel Device for On-line Monitoring of Anaesthesia Delivery, September 2018. (Co-advised. Principal Adviser Sandro Carrara). EPFL/EDEE Thesis Distinction 2019 and Ville de Lausanne Thesis Award 2019.
Present Position: Researcher, Bracco laboratories, Lausanne.
- Aya Mohamed Ibrahim 3-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging for Medical Telesonography: Algorithms and Architectures, November 2018.
Present Position: Researcher, Sicpa, Lausanne.
- Winston Haaswijk SAT-based Exact Synthesis for Multi-Level Logic Networks, May 2019.
Present Position: Senior R&D Engineer, Cadence.
- Giovanni Resta Polarity-Controlled Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics, June 2019.
Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva.
- Francesca Criscuolo Wearable Multi-electrode platform for ion sensing, April 2020.
- Eleonora Testa Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis in Advanced Technologies September 2020.
Present Position: Senior R&D Engineer, Synopsys, Mountain View, CA, USA.
- Giulia Meuli Program Compilation for Large Scale Quantum Computers December 2020.
EPFL/IBM Best Thesis award.
Present Position: Senior R&D Engineer, Synopsys.
- Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra Hardware and Software Interfaces Design for Multi-Panel Electrochemical Sensors December 2021.
Present Position: Postdoc EPFL.
- Bruno Schmitt Practical Compilation of Quantum Programs August 2022.
Present Position: Nvidia, Zurich.
- Fereshte Mozafari Optimizing Quantum Compilers:Efficient and Effective Algorithms, October 2023.
Present Position: Math Libraries Engineer - Quantum Computing Nvidia, Zurich.
- Siang-Yun Lee Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization June 2024.
Present Position: Cadence Design System, Munich, Germany.
- Alessandro Tempia-Calvino Logic Synthesis and Optimization for CMOS and
Post-CMOS Technologies October 2024.
Present Position: Synopsys, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
- Dewmini Sudara Marakkalage Technology Mapping and Optimization Algorithms
for Logic Synthesis of Advanced Technologies March 2025.
Other Institutions (Co-Adviser)
- Paul Stravers, Embedded Systems Design, Delft University of Technology, December 1994. (Co-advised with Ralph Otten)
Present Position: Principal Computer Architect, Synopsys.
- Patrick Vuillod, Optimisation et decomposition technologique de circuits integres a faible consommation, INPG, Grenoble, France, December 1997. (Co-advised with Gabriele Saucier)
Present Position: Fellow, Synopsys.
Engineer degrees