Roberto Giorgi

Roberto Giorgi is an Associate Professor at Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy. He was a Research Associate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering and his MS in Electronics Engineering, Summa cum Laude both from the University of Pisa, Italy. He was the Coordinator of the European Project AXIOM and before of the TERAFLUX project (8.5Meuro cost, 2010-2014, 11 partners) in the area of Future and Emerging Technologies for Teradevice Computing. He has been an Application leader in the ERA project (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures), a member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence (High-Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compilation). He was also Deputy Steering Committee in the HiPEAC, participated to SARC (Scalable ARChitectures) and attracted more than 2 Million euros of Research Funding to the University of Siena in the last decade. He took part in ChARM project, developing software for performance evaluation of ARM-processor-based embedded systems with cache memory. He has been IEEE Judge for the IEEE-CSIDC (Computer Society International Design Competition). He led the project “Bluesign Translator”, which received a 5th worldwide prize from IEEE and top companies, and received the FORUM-P.A. prize from the Italian Ministry of Technological and Scientific Innovation as an absolute winner in the category of “actions for the social integration of disadvantaged people through ICT”. The European Commission has selected him as an independent expert for evaluating ICT European Projects. He is a co-author of more than 130 scientific papers. His current interests include Computer Architecture themes such as Embedded Systems, Multiprocessors, Memory System Performance, and Workload Characterization. He is a Lifetime member of ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society. Further info: http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi/cv