Francesca Palumbo

Francesca Palumbo is an Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari. Her primary research focus is on embedded, cyber-physical, and reconfigurable systems, as well as code generation tools and design automation strategies for advanced reconfigurable hardware architectures. She has over 80 Scopus indexed publications on refereed international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, she has served in over 60 Technical Committees of international conferences and organized more than 20 different international conferences/schools, covering roles such as Program Chair and once General Chair. She is a member of HiPEAC, has been elevated to the Senior Grade within IEEE, and is a member of ACM and the SIE (Italian Society of Electronics). She is also a permanent Steering Committee Member of the ACM Conference on Computing Frontiers and Associate Editor of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters and the Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems. In 2018, she joined the IEEE VLSI Systems Applications Technical Committee (VSA-TC). Currently, she is participating in different EU projects, and she is the Scientific Coordinator of the MYRTUS project on cognitive continuum computing technologies. Finally, since 2017, she has been the Director of the CPS Summer School “Designing Cyber-Physical Systems – From concepts to implementation,” now at its sixth edition.