GIOVANNI DE MICHELI

Present position

Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland (2005 -).

Professional experience

Director, Institute of Electrical Engineering, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-2019).
Program leader, Nano-Tera.ch, Switzerland (2008-2019).
Director, Integrated System Centre, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (2005-2018).
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium(2011 - ).
Member, Technology Council, ST Microelectronics (2003 - ).
President, Scientific Council of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2007-2010).
Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Japan, (3/08 - 3/10).
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).

Education

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).

Major Awards

ESD-Allaiance - IEEE/CEDA - Phil Kaufman Award (2022).
American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS Fellow (2022).
IEEE/TC Cyber-physical Systems Technical Achievement Award Award (2021).
IEEE/CEDA & ACM/SIGDA Richard Newton Impact Award (2020).
ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award (2019).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Honorary Member (2017).
IEEE/CS Harry Goode Award for seminal contributions to design and design tools of Networks on Chips, (2016).
Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Design Automation Association, (2016).
IEEE/CAS Van Valkenburg Award, for sustained contributions to theory, practice and experimentation of design methods and tools for integrated circuits, systems and netweorks, (2012).
Academia Europaea, elected in 2011.
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).
DATE Fellow, (2011).
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).
IEEE D. Pederson Award (twice) for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS, (1987 and 2018).
Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, (1983).
Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE DATE, (2005).
Best Paper Award at the Nanoarch, (2010).
Academia Europaea, (2011).
Best Paper Award at the Nanoarch, (2012).

Professional societies

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).

Other professional activities

General Chair of the Memocode Conference, Lausanne, 2014.
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).
Member of the program committee:
- 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).
Invited lecturer:
- Waseda University (2005 - 2012).
- 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).

Publications and Patents

Over nine hundred technical publications, including eleven books.
13 patents.