Christian Pilato is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano (2011). He was a Post-doc Research Scientist at Columbia University from 2013 to 2016, and at the ALaRI Institute of the Università della Svizzera Italiana until 2018, and an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano from 2018 to 2023. His research interests include high-level synthesis, reconfigurable systems, and system-on-chip architectures, with an emphasis on memory and security aspects. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the EVEREST project. He was the program chair of the Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2014), the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2022 and 2023), and the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS-XXIII and SAMOS-IV). He was the Vice General Chair of FCCM 2023. He is currently involved in the program committees of many conferences on embedded systems, CAD, and reconfigurable architectures (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, FPL, DATE, CASES). He is currently the General Chair of ICCD 2024. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, and a Member of HiPEAC.
Christian Pilato
Expertise areas
Topics: Accelerators, ASIC, Cyber-physical systems, Cybersecurity, Data management, EDA, Energy efficiency / Low-power computing, FPGAs, GPUs, Open Source