Luca Benini

Luca Benini is a Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Bologna's Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering. He also holds a Visiting Faculty Position at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and serves as Chief Architect of the Platform 2012 project at STMicroelectronics in Grenoble, France.

His educational background includes academic positions progressing from Assistant Professor (1998) to Associate Professor (2001) and finally Full Professor (2006) at the University of Bologna. He has held significant industry positions including IC Architecture and CAD Engineer at Integrated Information Technology Inc. (1994), Senior Member of R&D Staff at Synopsys Inc. (1996), and Visiting Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories (1997-2004).

Professor Benini's research focuses on designing systems for ambient intelligence, spanning multi-processor systems-on-chip, networks on chip, and energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks. His work has expanded into biochips for biological molecule recognition, bioinformatics, and advanced algorithms for in-silico biology. His expertise in low-power design of integrated circuits and systems earned him IEEE Fellow status in 2007.

He has received multiple honors including best paper awards at IEEE GLS-VLSI and the European Wireless Sensor Networks Conference (both 2008), with three of his papers featured in 'Design Automation and Test in Europe - The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years' (Springer 2008).

• IEEE Fellow (2007) for contributions to design technologies for low power design
• Member of ARTEMISIA Steering Board (elected twice)
• Member of European Design and Automation Association Main Board
• Member of MEDEA+ EDA roadmap committee
• Member of EC Advisory group on Computing Systems

Benini has held significant leadership roles in the academic community, serving as General Chair of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (2009), DATE Program Chair (2005), and Program Chair for multiple specialized symposia. He serves as associate editor for several prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, and has organized influential workshops like the Dagstuhl Seminar on Power-Aware Computing Systems.