Francesco Conti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"

Academic discipline: ING-INF/01 Electronic Engineering

Collaborations

Collaboration with:: ETH Zurich
Country:: Switzerland
Description:: Cooperation with the Digital Systems group of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS), led by Prof. Luca Benini, on developments of the PULP platform: applications driven by AI and deep learning; development of software, hardware and hardware/software acceleration techniques (e.g. hardware accelerators, ISA extensions, ...); training of quantized deep neural networks; robotics (nano-drones).

Collaboration with:: Columbia University
Country:: United States of America
Description:: Possibility of thesis abroad at the System-Level Design group of Prof. Luca Carloni

Collaboration with:: GreenWaves Technologies
Country:: France
Description:: Developer and inventor of the Hardware Convolution Engine (HWCE), an accelerator for convolutional neural networks meant for integration with tightly-coupled clusters, licensed from UNIBO to GreenWaves Technologies for integration in their commercial products.

Collaboration with:: Università degli Studi di CAGLIARI
Country:: Italy
Description:: Collaboration on the development of the FPGA-based NEURAGHE platform for deep learning.