Luca Benini is a computer scientist who is a Professor of Electronics at University of Bologna and the Chair of Digital Circuits and Systems at

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Biography

Benini received Laurea in

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from University of Bologna in 1994 and in 1997, he received his PhD on the same topic from

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under the supervision of

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and

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. Benini has served as a Chief Architect of the Platform 2012 project at

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in Grenoble, France from 2009 to 2013. He was awarded the Fellow of

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(2016) for his contributions to the design of low power multi- processor systems. He also became a Fellow of the IEEE (2007) for his contributions to design technologies for low power design of integrated circuits and systems. Benini is also a member of HiPEAC. In 2019, a team of researchers from

and the University of Bologna led by Benini developed a nano-drone named PULP Dronet, which is only few centimeters in diameter and light-weight, capable of operating indoors and outdoors. In 2019, Benini joined LowRISC C.I.C. as a board member and serves in the board of directors.

Publications

Selected publications

* Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2002). Networks on chips: A new SoC paradigm. computer, 35(1), 70–78. * Bertozzi, D., Jalabert, A., Murali, S., Tamhankar, R., Stergiou, S., Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2005). NoC synthesis flow for customized domain specific multiprocessor systems-on-chip. IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems, 16(2), 113–129. * Benini, L., & De Micheli, G. (2000). System-level power optimization: techniques and tools.

Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 5(2), 115–192. * Ye, T. T., De Micheli, G., & Benini, L. (2002, June). Analysis of power consumption on switch fabrics in network routers. In Proceedings of the 39th annual design automation conference (pp. 524–529). * Bertozzi, D., & Benini, L. (2004). Xpipes: A network-on-chip architecture for gigascale systems-on-chip. IEEE circuits and systems magazine, 4(2), 18–31.

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* 2016 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE Living people Italian computer scientists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scientist-stub