Florent de Dinechin

Florent de Dinechin is a Professor at INSA Lyon, specializing in computer arithmetic and hardware design. His research focuses on application-specific arithmetic optimization for FPGA and embedded systems, including floating-point computation, low-precision neural networks, and hardware-efficient algorithms.

Key research areas include:

• Optimal hardware implementations of mathematical functions
• Mixed-precision computing for AI workloads
• FPGA-centric arithmetic operators and generators
• Energy-efficient digital signal processing

Recent publications explore reconfigurable constant multipliers, 3D norm computation, and low-precision activation functions. He authored 'Application-Specific Arithmetic' and co-edits handbooks on floating-point computation.