Luca Benini is a Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Bologna. He also holds a faculty position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 2009-2012 he has served as Chief Architect in STMicroelectronics for the Platform 2012 project. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1997.
Dr. Benini has published more than 800 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, five books and several book chapters. He has been general chair and program chair of the Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference. He has been a member of the technical program committee and organizing committee of several conferences, including the Design Automation Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Design, the Symposium on Hardware-Software Codesign.
He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Circuits and Systems and of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems .
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM and a member of the Academia Europaea.
