Ian O'Connor

Ian O’Connor (IEEE S’95-M’98-SM’07) is Professor for Heterogeneous and Nanoelectronics Systems Design in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Control Engineering at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France. He is currently head of the Heterogeneous Systems Design group at the Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, and Director of the SoC2 research network. Since 2008, he also holds a position of Adjunct Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include novel computing and interconnect architectures based on emerging technologies, associated with methods for design exploration. He has authored or co-authored well over 200 book chapters, journal publications, conference papers and patents, has held various positions of responsibility in the organization of several international conferences and has been workpackage leader or scientific coordinator for several national and European projects. He also serves as an expert with IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) WG10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems) and is Vice-President for Initiatives in the IEEE Council for Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). He previously served as expert with the French Observatory for Micro and Nano Technologies (OMNT) and ALLISTENE (Alliance for digital science and technology).