Mariagiovanna Sami is Professor, Digital Processing Systems, at Politecnico di Milano. She holds an Electronics Engineering degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1966) and a Libera Docenza, Switching Theory and Computing (Italian Ministry for Education, 1971). Her research interests include various aspects of digital architecture design, with particular reference to defect and fault-tolerance of digital architectures, parallel architectures, low-power design and high-level synthesis.
She is co-author and/or co-editor of several books and more than 250 technical papers.
She has been Chairman of the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Milano and is the former Scientific Director of the ALaRI Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana, of she was a founding member in 2000. At ALaRI, she has been responsible for a number of federal as well as European research and educational projects. Prof. Sami has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems Architecture and member of the Board of Editors of IEEE Micro, IEEE Design and Test, IEEE Transactions of Computers. She is a member of the Board of Editors of JETTA - Journal of Electronic Testing. She was General Chair or Program Chair for a number of international conferences.
Prof. Sami was Scientific Director of the ALaRI Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana, until 2012, and continues to serve on its Scientific Board.

Giovanni De Micheli is the Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He also chairs the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). He is the Chairman and Program Leader of the Nano-Tera.ch scientific program for Health-Security-Environment Systems Engineering.

Dr. Heinrich Meyr received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1967 and 1973, respectively. He spent over 12 years in various research and management positions in industry before accepting a professorship in electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University in 1977. At RWTH Aachen he has founded the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing System (ISS) involved in the analysis and design of complex signal processing systems for communication applications.

Christian Piguet received the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, respectively in 1974 and 1981. He is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and also lectures in VLSI and microprocessor design at the ALaRI Master at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. He is also a lecturer for many postgraduates courses in low-power design in various countries in Europe. Christian Piguet holds 32 patents in digital design, microprocessors and watch systems.

Miroslaw Malek is Director of Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) at the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano. Prior to that he was professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1977-1994) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1994-2012) holding also numerous visiting appointments at the IBM Yorktown Heights, AT&T Bell Labs, Stanford University, NYU, TU-Vienna, Chinese University of Hong Kong and IBM-Japan Chair at the Keio University. His research interests focus on dependable embedded architectures including failure prediction and diagnosis.

Anupam Chattopadhyay received his B.E. degree from Jadavpur University, India in 2000. He received his MSc. from ALaRI, Switzerland and PhD from RWTH Aachen in 2002 and 2008 respectively. During his PhD, he worked on automatic RTL generation from the architecture description language LISA, which was commercialized later by CoWare (now part of Synopsys). He further developed several high-level optimizations and verification flow for embedded processors. In his doctoral thesis, he proposed a language-based modeling, exploration and implementation framework for partially re-configurable processors.

received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in computer engineering, from Bogazici University, Istanbul, respectively in 2000 and 2007. He also obtained a M.Eng. Degree from University of Lugano in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, Kubilay Atasu was a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Between 2005 and 2008 Kubilay was a research associate at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. In summer 2006, he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University.Since May 2008, Kubilay is with IBM Research - Zurich, Systems Department, Accelerator Technologies research group.