Roberto Giorgi is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy.
• For one year, he was a Research Associate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA.
• He received his PhD in Computer Engineering and his MS in Electronics Engineering, Summa cum Laude both from the University of Pisa, Italy.
• He has received the eligibility (Italian National Habilitation) as a Full-Professor since 30th March 2018.
• He coordinated the European Project AXIOM (3.9Meuro cost, 2015-2018, 7 partners) about designing and manufacturing the next-generation board for Cyber-Physical Systems.
• He coordinated the TERAFLUX project (8.5Meuro cost, 2010-2014, 11 partners) in Future and Emerging Technologies for Teradevice Computing.
• He is member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence (High Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compilation) since 2004.
• He was Deputy Steering Committee in the HiPEAC, Application leader in the ERA project (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures), participated in SARC (Scalable ARChitectures), and attracted more than 3 Million Euro of Research Funding to the University of Siena in the last decade.
• He took part in the ChARM project, developing software for performance evaluation of ARM-processor-based embedded systems with cache memory.
• He has been IEEE Judge for the IEEE-CSIDC (Computer Society International Design Competition).
• He led the project ”Bluesign Translator”, which received a 5th worldwide prize by IEEE and top companies, and received the FORUM-P.A. prize by the Italian Ministry of Technological and Scientific Innovation, as absolute winner in the category of “actions for the social integration of disadvantaged people through ICT”.
• The European Commission has selected him as an independent expert for evaluating ICT European Projects.
• He is a co-author of more than 170 scientific papers.
• His current interests include Computer Architecture themes such as Embedded Systems, Multiprocessors, Memory System Performance, Workload Characterization, and High-Performance Computing.
• He is a Lifetime member of ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE - IEEE Computer Society