Massimo Poncino

 

Resume 

 

Biography and short resume

 

-          He was born on September 15, 1964.

-          He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1989.

-          Ha received his Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineerign from Politecnico di Torino in 1993.

-          From March 1993 to May 1994 he was Visiting Scientist at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

-          From May 1994 to June 1995 he was awarded a post-doc scholarship at the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica of Politecnico di Torino on the topic of the design of low-power systems.

-          From July 1995 to September 2001 he was Assistant Professor of Computing Systems at Politecnico di Torino.

-          From October 2001 to September 2004 he was Associate Professor of Computing Systems the Università di Verona.

-          From October 2004 to September 2006 he was Associate Professor of Computing Systems at Politecnico di Torino.

-          Since November 2006 he is Full Professor of Computing Systems at Politecnico di Torino.

-          His research interests include the design automation of digital systems, with special emphasis on the design of low-power systems, the modeling and the simulation of systems-on-chip, and the automatic synthesis of digital systems.

-          He coauthored more than 200 papers, including one book, book chapter, journal papers, and papers in the proceedings of international conferences.

-          He has served as reviewer for a number of journal and conferences of the IEEE and ACM, and served as member of Technical Program Committee of many international IEEE and ACM conferences.

-          He has taught more than 50 courses on various subjects of the Computer Science.

-          He is Associate Editor IEEE Transacations on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, for the term 2006-2007.

-          He is an evaluator of IST (Information Society Technologies) projects for the European Commision, in the context of the II Call of the VI Framework Program (2003), on the topic “Embedded Systems”.

 

 

Scientific and Professional Activities

   Evaluator of IST (Information Society Technologies) research project for the European Commissionper la Commissione Europea, in the context of the II Call o the VI Framework Program (2003), on the topic “Embedded Systems”.

  Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design

   Member of the Technical Program Committee of the following internation conferences:

   IEEE Alessandro Volta Memorial Workshop on Low Power Design – 1999.

   ACM International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

   International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA) – 2003.

   EDAA Ph.D. Forum, associato a Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference – 2003, 2004.

   IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) – 2004, 2005.

   International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS) – 2004, 2005.

   International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) – 2005.

   Reviewer for the following international journals:

   IEEE Transactions on Computers

   IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

   ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

   IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design

   IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

   IEE Proceedings – Computers and Digital Techniques

   IEE Electronic Letters

   Integration: the VLSI Journal

   Reviewer for the following international conferences:

   ACM/IEEE European Design and Test Conference (1996)

   ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (1993–2005)

   ACM/IEEE International Conference on CAD (1994, 1997)

   IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (1994)

   ACM/IEEE Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005)

   ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Design (1996–2005)

   IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2000–2005)

   IEEE Alessandro Volta Memorial Workshop on Low Power Design (1999)

   International Workshop on Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS) (1999–2005)

  Awards and Prizes:

   Premio per il miglior articolo (Best Paper Award) presentato alla conferenza internazionale IEEE EuroDAC’96: IEEE European Design Automation Conference.

 

   Courses and Tutorials in International conferences:

   "Design of Low-Power Circuits and Systems", Conference Tutorial a IEEE EuroDAC, Brighton, Inghilterra, 22/9/1995.

   "Programmable Devices: The Solution to Rapid System Design", Conference Tutorial a IEEE 6th GLS-VLSI, Ames, USA, 18/3/1996.

   "High-Level Power Optimization of Digital CMOS Circuits and Systems," Conference Tutorial a IEEE ISCAS’99, Orlando, USA, 30/5/1999.

   "RTL And Gate-Level Power Optimization of Digital Circuits" Conference Tutorial a IEEE ISCAS’2000, Ginevra, Svizzera, 28/5/2000.

   "RTL Power Optimization: Concepts, Tools, and Design Experiences," Conference Tutorial a IEEE DATE’2004, Parigi, Francia, 20/2/2004.

   “Coherent or not Coherent?  What Programming Model for Energy-Efficient MPSoCs? ,” invited seminar nell’ambito del corso Power-Aware Computing, presso Dagstuhl International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, 7/4/2005.

   Member of the IEEE and of the Circuit and Systems Society.

 

 

Research Activity

The research of Prof. Poncino is centered on the design automation of digital systems. Five are the fields in which he has obtained results of particular relevance:

-          Design of low-power digital systems

-          Modeling and optimization of hardware/software systems

-          Symbolic manipulation of logic functions

-          Verification of finite-state systems

-          Simulation and testing of digital systems