Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 and Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).

He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of six other books and of over 300 technical articles. He is, or has been, member of the technical advisory board of several companies, including Magma Design, Automation, Coware

Coware

CoWare, now part of Synopsys, was a supplier of platform-driven electronic system level design software and services.CoWare was headquartered in San Jose, California, and had offices around the world, major R&D offices in Belgium, Germany and India....

, Aplus Design Technologies, Ambit Design Systems and STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics is an Italian-French electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.While STMicroelectronics corporate headquarters and the headquarters for EMEA region are based in Geneva, the holding company, STMicroelectronics N.V. is registered in Amsterdam,...

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Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is a Technical Field Award given each year by the IEEE to an individual or small team that has made outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. The award is named in honor of Emanuel R. Piore.The award was established...

 for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems.

He was the Program Chair and General Chair of the Design Automation Conference

Design Automation Conference

The Design Automation Conference, or DAC, is a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation....

 (DAC) in 1996-1997 and 2000 respectively. He was the Program and General Chair of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) in 1988 and 1989.

He is Program Leader for the Nano-Tera

Nano-Tera

The Nano-Tera.ch research program is a Swiss federal program, funding scientific projects which endorse nanotechnology on a tera scale, in order to improve health, security and the environment....

research program.

External links

• http://si2.epfl.ch/~demichel/
• http://www.epfl.ch/
• http://si.epfl.ch/
• http://www.nano-tera.ch/