Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M. The Politecnico di Milano University is the largest technical University in Italy, with about 40000 students S. and a Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their
He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of six other books and of over 300 technical articles. He is, or has been, member of the technical advisory board of several companies, including Magma Design, Automation, Coware, Aplus Design Technologies, Ambit Design Systems and STMicroelectronics. CoWare is a supplier of platform-driven Electronic system level (ESL design software and services STMicroelectronics (,)is an franco-italian Electronics and Semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in in Geneva, Switzerland. Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization
He was the Program Chair and General Chair of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 1996-1997 and 2000 respectively. The Design Automation Conference, or DAC, is a combination of a technical conference and a trade show both specializing in Electronic design automation He was the Program and General Chair of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) in 1988 and 1989.