Luca Sterpone

Luca Sterpone is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN), Politecnico di Torino. He serves as Head of the Control and Computer Engineering Department (2023-2027), coordinates the Aerospace and Safety Computing Lab, and is a member of the Academic Senate and Power Electronics Innovation Center (PEIC). His research spans reconfigurable computing, fault tolerance, and radiation effects analysis in electronic systems.

• Professor since 2021
• Department Head (DAUIN) since 2023
• Coordinates international collaborations with ESA, AMD Xilinx, NVIDIA, and Thales Alenia Space
• Develops radiation-hardened FPGA tools (SETA, VERI-Place, PyXEL)
• 2007 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award and 2005 IEEE Best Paper Award

Research Focus: Designing radiation-tolerant systems for aerospace, including fault-tolerant AI accelerators, FPGA reliability, and software-based error mitigation. He investigates soft error propagation in nanoscale circuits and develops tools for radiation sensitivity analysis in VLSI. His work integrates hardware-software co-design for mission-critical applications.

Awards:

• EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (2007)
• IEEE European Test Symposium Best Paper (2005)
• SMACD Best EDA Tool Award (2018)
• ARC Best Paper candidate (2018)

Teaching: He leads courses in Reconfigurable Computing (PhD level), GPU Programming, and Operating Systems. He has formal responsibility for teaching roles across 9 bachelor's and 7 master's years, and mentors multiple PhD students.

Collaborations: Coordinates with the European Space Agency (ESA), University of Bielefeld, Universidad de Sevilla, and industrial partners like AMD Xilinx, NVIDIA, and General Motors. He leads projects such as RESCHIP4EU, VEGAS, and TERRAC for radiation-hardened computing solutions.