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Giovanni Agosta

Associate Professor
Giovanni Agosta received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering (2000) and the PhD in Information Technology (2004) from Politecnico di Milano, where he currently is a Researcher with tenure. His main research interests revolve around compiler technology. He has authored more than 80 papers in international journals, conferences and workshops, receiving 4 HiPEAC Awards and 3 Best Paper awards. He has been involved in 8 European funded projects since 2010, holding workpackage and task leader responsibilities. He is a full member of the HiPEAC network, and the organizer of two workshops colocated with the HiPEAC conference.
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Alessandro Barenghi

Associate Professor
Alessandro Barenghi obtained his M.Sc. Degree in 2007 and his Ph.D. in 2011 from Politecnico di Milano. The main area of interest for his researches is computer, embedded and network security. In particular, the activity carried out during his doctoral program focused on applied aspects of cryptography. In addition to his interests in computer security, he is also working in the field of formal languages and compilers: his current interest regards techniques for parallel parsing, employing operator precedence grammars.
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Gianluca Palermo

Associate Professor
Gianluca Palermo received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2002, and the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an associate professor at Department of Electronics and Information Technology in the same University. Previously he was also consultant engineer in the Low Power Design Group of AST – STMicroelectronics working on network on-chip and research assistant at the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) of the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). His research interests include design methodologies and architectures for embedded and HPC systems, focusing on AutoTuning aspects.
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Gerardo Pelosi

Associate Professor
Gerardo Pelosi received the Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology in 2007 from Politecnico di Milano. His research fields cover (1) the area of information security and privacy including access control models, models for encrypted data management in relational databases, and secure data outsourcing; (2) the area of applied cryptography including side-channel cryptanalysis, system-level attacks, and efficient hardware and software design of cryptographic algorithms; other research interests are in designing security support into computer architectures and the logic synthesis of combinatorial circuits.
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Federico Reghenzani

Assistant Professor
Federico Reghenzani received his PhD degree from Politecnico di Milano in January 2021. He is currently a researcher working on real-time systems and embedded computing. His research interests are on probabilistic real-time, mixed-criticality systems, fault tolerance, and embedded Linux systems.
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Davide Gadioli

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Davide Gadioli received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2010) with a thesis entitled “An autonomous robot that can play hide and seek”. He then finished his Master of Science in Computer Engineering in 2013 defending the thesis entitled “Argo: a framework to support adaptability in multicore architecture”. Since November 2014, he has been a PhD student at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests are application-autotuning, autonomic computing and approximate computing.

Michele Piccoli

Research Fellow
Michele Piccoli received his MsC degree from Politecnico di Milano in December 2020. He is currently a research assistant working on model and tools for SCA vulnerability analysis on hardware platforms

Emanuele Vitali

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Emanuele Vitali graduated in 2015 from Politecnico di Milano after completing his Master of Science in Computer Engineering with a thesis on “Code transformation in high level synthesis for iterative stencils”. Since then, he has been working at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano, first research fellow and then (from May 2017) as PhD student. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. His main research interests include hardware architectures and application auto-tuning.

Davide Baroffio

Research Fellow