Luca Benini
Luca Benini holds the chair of digital Circuits and systems at ETHZ and is Full Professor at the Universita di Bologna. He received a PhD from Stanford University. He has been visiting professor at Stanford University, IMEC, EPFL. In 2009-2012 he served as chief architect in STmicroelectronics France. Dr. Benini's research interests are in energy-efficient computing systems design, from embedded to high-performance. He is also active in the design ultra-low power VLSI Circuits and smart sensing micro-systems. He has published more than 900 peer-reviewed papers and five books. He is an ERC-advanced grant winner, a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award.
Florian Netter
Eric Flamand
Eric got his PhD in Computer Science from INPG, France, in 1982. For the first part of his career he worked as a researcher with CNET and CNRS in France, on architectural automatic synthesis, design and architecture, compiler infrastructure for highly constrained heterogeneous small parallel processors. Eric then held different technical management in the semiconductor industry, first with Motorola where he was involved into the architecture definition and tooling of the StarCore DSP. Then with ST microelectronics, first, Eric was in charge of all the software development of the Nomadik Application Processor and then in charge of the P2012 corporate initiative aiming at the development of a many core device. He is now co-founder and CTO of Greenwaves Technologies a French based startup developing an IOT processor derived from Pulp. He is also acting as a part time research consultant for ETH-Z.
Cyra Richardson
Cyra Richardson is the General Manager for Microsoft’s cross company initiative on Robotics – including both IoT and AI. Since 1990, she has played a role in many of Microsoft’s technology transformations. As an engineer Richardson helped to develop Windows 3.0 and Windows CE, as well as created developer tools for Windows CE and bringing Visual Basic to market. Richardson also launch and build several key Microsoft projects including Windows Imaging, thin versions of Windows Server, Azure Intelligent System Service and Windows 10 IoT. She has also built and operated Microsoft developer programs including Platinum Hosting and the IoT & AI Insider Program.
Albert Cohen
Albert Cohen is a research scientist at Google. He has been a research scientist at Inria from 2000 to 2018. He graduated from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and received his PhD from the University of Versailles in 1999. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, an invited professor at Philips and NXP Research, and a visiting scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research. Albert Cohen works on parallelizing and optimizing compilers, parallel programming and synchronous languages, with applications to high-performance computing, machine learning and reactive control systems. Several research projects led by Albert Cohen led to effective transfer to production compilers and programming environments.
Tyler Patterson
Simon Lewis
Pierre Starkov
Pete Richards
