Stefano Quer is a professor at the Department
of Control and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di
Torino. He received his M.S. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico
di Torino in 1991 and earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the Italian Ministry of
Education, University, and Research.
His career includes several significant
international experiences. He was a Visiting Faculty member at the University
of California, Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences from 1994 to 1995. Subsequently, he held visiting researcher positions
at the "Advanced Technology Group" at Synopsys Inc. in 1998 and the
"Alpha Development Group" at Compaq Computer Corporation in 1999. He
served as a consultant for Compaq in 2000.
Since 1992, Stefano Quer has been actively
teaching computer engineering courses, with a focus on advanced algorithms,
operating systems, concurrent programming, and system and device programming.
His research interests are broad, encompassing systems and tools for CAD for
VLSI, formal validation methods for hardware and software systems, embedded
systems, and sensor networks. He also focuses on developing parallel algorithms
and optimization techniques to achieve practical solutions with limited resources.
In recognition of his work, he received a Best
Paper Award at the 1994 IEEE European Design Automation Conference (EURO-DAC
'94). He is an IEEE Senior Member and was included in the "Exceptional
Reviewers List" in 2025 in the MDPI Applied Sciences journal. He has
served as a Guest Editor for several issues of MDPI Sensors, and he is an
Editor for the MDPI journals Sensors and Applied Sciences. Furthermore, he has
served as a chair or member of the Technical Program Committees for numerous
prestigious conferences, including DATE, ICCAD, DAC, ICSOFT, GLSVLSI, SOFTENG,
and IWLS.
He has co-authored many papers for refereed
journals and international conferences and has participated in various Italian
and European projects.