Gianluca TEMPESTI | ||||
Date of birth: | March 7th, 1969 | |||
Place of birth: | Moncalieri (TO), Italy | |||
Citizenship: | Italian | |||
Address
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Cellular Architectures Research Group (CARG)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) EPFL-IC-ISIM-GRTEM (INN239) Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
Phone:
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+41-21-693 2602
+41-21-693 3705 gianluca.tempesti(at)epfl.ch http://carg.epfl.ch |
Career path
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2003-Now
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Swiss National
Fund Assistant Professor Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland |
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2001-2003
1998-2001 |
Senior Researcher / First Assistant Post-Doctoral Fellow Logic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland |
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2000-2003
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Lecturer
University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland |
Education |
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1994-1998
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Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland |
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1991-1993
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Masters Degree in Computer Science and Engineering University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
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1987-1991
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Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering)
Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Research Interests
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Bio-inspired digital systems
Architectures for nanotechnology devices Built-in self-test and self-repair techniques Complex cellular automata Design and development of FPGA circuits Hardware/software co-design High-performance processor architectures Massively parallel computer systems Logic systems design using FPGAs |
Research Projects
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Current
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2003-Now
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Architectures and design methodologies for bio-inspired computing machines
STMicroelectronics, Milan, Italy Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
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1994-Now
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Embryonics (embryonic electronics)
University of York, York, England University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland Daimler-Chrysler, Dresden, Germany |
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2001-Now
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Reconfigurable POEtic Machines
University of York, York, England Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland |
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Past
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2000-2002
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Development of the BioWall reconfigurable computing tissue
Villa Reuge Museum, Ste-Croix, Switzerland |
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1998-2001
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Development of a repairable field-programmable gate array
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Tsukuba, Japan |
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1998-1999
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Processor architectures inspired by biology
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy |
Teaching Activities
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Courses
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2005-Now
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Course "Genetic and developmental computing architectures"
Master course Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
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2000-2003
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Course "Architecture et technologie des ordinateurs II" Compulsory first-year course University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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2000
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Graduate Course "Bio-Inspired Systems and Computing" Pre-Doctoral School in Computer Science (with Dr. M. Sipper) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
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1999
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Course "Embryonics" University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy |
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Interventions
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1996-Now
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Course "Systèmes et programmation génétiques" - Guest lecturer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
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1999-2001
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Course "Génie Médical" - Guest lecturer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
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1999
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Graduate Course "Intelligent Interfaces Systems" - Guest lecturer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Support
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1995-2003
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Course "Systèmes logiques"
Course "Systèmes microprogrammés" Course "Conception de processeurs" Course "Architecture des ordinateurs" Teaching assistant. Laboratory assistant. Head assistant. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
Committees and reviewing
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2003-Now |
Reviewer,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
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2002-Now |
Reviewer,
IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques
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2001-Now |
Reviewer,
Artificial Life Journal
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2005 |
Program
Co-Chair, Program Committee,
6th International Conference on Evolvable
Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2005), Barcelona, Spain,
September 2005.
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Session Chair,
2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2005), Washington, DC, July 2005.
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Reviewer,
Evolvable Hardware track,Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2005),
Washington, DC, June 2005.
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Program Committee, 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005),
Canterbury, England, September 2005.
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Invited Keynote Speaker,
7th International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP05),
Palermo, Italy, July 2005.
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Program Committee,
6th International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 2005),
York, England, September 2005.
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Reviewer, Organic Computing thematic priority program, German Research Council, Bonn, Germany.
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2004 |
Reviewer,
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), Seattle, WA, June 2004
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Scientific
Committee, 6th Int. Conf. on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2004),
Amsterdam, NL, Oct. 2004
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Session Chair, Panelist,
2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2004), Seattle, WA, July 2004.
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Invited Keynote Speaker, 4th Health and Textile International Forum 9Tessile e Salute),
Biella, Italy, March 2004
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Program
Committee, Session Chair, 1st Int. Workshop on Biologically
Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (BioADIT04),
Lausanne, 2004.
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2003 |
Organizing
committee, 5th International Workshop on Information Processing
in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 2003), Lausanne, Switzerland, September
2003.
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Program
Committee, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO
2003), Chicago, IL, July 2003.
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Session Chair, Panelist,
2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2003), Chicago, IL, July 2003.
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Program
Committee, Session Chair, 5th International Conference on Evolvable
Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2003), Trondheim, Norway,
March 2003.
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2002 |
Program
Committee, 5th International Conference on Cellular Automata for
Research and Industry (ACRI 2002), Geneva, Switzerland, October 2002.
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Session
Chair, NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH2002), Alexandria,
VA, July 2002.
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Program
Committee, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO
2002), New York, NY, July 2002.
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Organizing
committee, Turing Day: Computing science 90 years from the birth
of Alan M. Turing, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2002.
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2001 |
Program
Committee, 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From
Biology to Hardware (ICES 2001), Tokyo, October 2001.
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Invited Keynote Speaker,
6th Int. Work-Conf. on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN2001), Granada, Spain, June 13-15, 2001.
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1998 |
Guest
Editor, Artificial Life, Von Neumann's Legacy: Special Issue on
Self-Replication, 4(3), The MIT Press, Summer 1998.
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1997 |
Program
chair, Von Neumann day: Biological inspiration in computer science
40 years from the death of John von Neumann, Lausanne, Switzerland,
July 1997.
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Other distinctions
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2001-Now |
Evaluator,
Princeton University Admissions, Princeton, NJ.
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1999-2003 |
Member,
Research Commission, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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2002-2003 |
Member,
Section Council, Computer Science Section, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Languages
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English, French, Italian (native).
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