Previously (2000) I was an employee of STMicroelectronics  in San Jose', Ca, and, at the same time, a visiting researcher in the BRASS group at UC Berkeley, where I was helping in the definition and implementation of the compiler for SCORE.

Even longer ago (1996-2000), I was a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, where I spent 3 and a half years under the supervision of prof. Mariagiovanna Sami, and I worked on Reconfigurable VLIW Processors.

During my PhD (1996 and 1997) I spent some time in HP Labs Bristol,  UK, in the Embedded Systems Department headed by Nick Wainwright, and a little time also with prof. Stamatis Vassiliadis at Delft University of Technology, in Holland.

Before my PhD (1995), working on the final project for my computer engineering degree, I was for 6 months with the VLSI group of prof. Jordi Cortadella at UPC, Barcelona, where I implemented a radix-4 divider in a sea of gates. This was within Erasmus.

Now I have kids and I travel much much less, but looking back, it was great to spend those 10 years visiting different labs and coutries and people and ways of living and working.

To all the above mentioned people goes all my gratitude!

Giovanni Ansaloni  (PhD Completed, Aug 2011)

Paolo Bonzini  (PhD Completed, May 2009)

CoAdvised:

Francesco Regazzoni (PhD Completed, Jan 2010)

Automata and Formal Languages

Automatic Processor Specialisation

Hardware/Software Codesign

Miscellanea

Funded PhD Student Positions at the University of Lugano

If you are interested in research and in the general areas of reconfigurable computing, customisable architectures, backend compilers, ...and possibly more, and you want to discuss the possibility of a PhD, please feel free to contact me.