Alessandro Piovaccari is a Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna. He is the VP of Conferences for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, a board member CTO Council of the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the Center for Leadership Education at the Johns-Hopkins University, an advisor for the Berkeley Skydeck and Silicon Catalyst startup incubators. He is also part of the technical advisory board of several semiconductor startups.
He has more than 25 years of technical and management experience in the semiconductor industry, including CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Silicon Labs. He co-architected and led the development of many wireless and IoT SoC integrated circuits, which have surpassed the 4 billion devices shipments. Most notably, the first single-chip TV tuner IC, still used by nine of the world’s top-ten TV makers, and 80 percent market share. He has been a long-time contributor for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), covering the role of Technical Program Chair for the year 2015 and being part of the steering committee from 2015 to 2022.
Alessandro received his PhD and Laurea degrees in EECS from the University of Bologna and a Post-Grad certificate (summa cum laude) in EECS from the Johns-Hopkins University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Lifetime Fellow at Silicon Labs. He received an IEEE SSCS award in leadership for organizing the first virtual solid-state conference. He holds 38 US patents, including a Patent of the Year award.
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