Francesc Moll Echeto

Francesc Moll Echeto is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), affiliated with the Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica and the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona. He leads the HIPICS research group focused on high-performance integrated circuits and systems design. His expertise spans energy harvesting, low-power electronics, process variability management, and secure circuit design. He coordinates the Doctorat en Enginyeria Electrònica program and has coordinated EU-funded projects like the European Processor Initiative (EPI).

Education:

• M.S. in Physics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1991
• Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1995

Research Focus:

His work addresses energy-efficient computing, including:
- Design of circuits tolerant to manufacturing variability
- Energy harvesting from mechanical and RF sources
- Secure hardware countermeasures against side-channel attacks
- RISC-V architecture implementations in advanced technologies
- Edge computing and autonomous sensor systems

Grants & Collaborations:

• Coordinator of R&D projects like 'ARQUITECTURA DE COMPUTADORES DE ALTAS PRESTACIONES' (PID2023-146511NB-I00)
• Part of the Barcelona Zettascale Lab consortium
• Collaborations with Barcelona Supercomputing Center and industry partners

Awards:

• HiPEAC Paper Award (2023, 2024) for innovations in vector processing and DNN acceleration

Labs/Teams:

Leads the HIPICS group and the EFRICS subgroup, collaborating on EU-funded initiatives like the European Processor Initiative. Active in open-source silicon projects (e.g., Sargantana RISC-V processor).