Massimo Alioto

Massimo Alioto was born in Brescia in 1972. He took the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the University of Catania. He is currently Professor at the ECE department of the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group and is Director of the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area.

In 2002, he joined the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Siena as a Research Associate, where he became Assistant Professor (2002) and Associate Professor (2005). In the summer of 2007, he was visiting professor at EPFL – Lausanne (Switzerland). In 2009-2011, he was visiting professor at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011-2012, he was visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2013, he was visiting scientist at Circuit Research Lab – Intel Labs (Hillsboro, OR – USA).

His research interests involve extremely energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems, with his research activity being focused on:

· design of ultra low-power circuits and systems for distributed sensing and ubiquitous computing (e.g., IoT, wearables) down to battery-indifferent and battery-less systems, including processing, memories, on-chip links, power management, analog interfaces, security, energy harvesting

· energy-quality scalable integrated systems for adaptive and dynamic management of the error-quality tradeoff

· always-on accelerators for data sensemaking, machine intelligence and learning systems (vision, audio, touch)

· energy efficiency and resilient near-threshold circuits for green computing (from circuits to microarchitectures)

· hardware security from primitives to physical security (crypto, physically unclonable functions, random number generators, detection/counteraction of side-channel attacks, laser voltage probing)

· circuit design in emerging technologies.

He is author or co-author of more than 330 papers on international journals and international conferences. Some of his journal publications are among the most downloaded in IEEE TCAS-I and TVLSI. He is also coauthor of four books: Adaptive Digital Circuits for Power-Performance Range beyond Wide Voltage Scaling (Springer, 2020), Enabling the Internet of Things – from Integrated Circuits to Integrated Systems (Springer, 2017 – the first book on integrated circuit design for IoT), Flip-Flop Design in Nanometer CMOS – from High Speed to Low Energy (Springer, 2014), Model and Design of Bipolar and MOS Current-Mode Logic: CML, ECL and SCL Digital Circuits (Springer, 2005). He is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to energy-efficient VLSI circuits”.

He is/was Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2020-2021), and the IEEE Circuits and System Society (2022-2023, 2009-2010). In the last five years, he has given 50+ talks, tutorials and keynote speeches at international conferences (e.g., ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, HotChips, ISCAS, ICECS), top universities and leading companies (e.g., Intel, TSMC, ARM). In 2019, his group has received the best paper award at IEEE ICECS. In 2010, he received the ISCAS 2010 Best Tutorial award for the tutorial “Pushing the Limits of Energy Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges in Subthreshold Logic” (an overview paper to TCAS-I was also invited, to open the 2012 editorial year), and the SBCCI 2014 best paper award.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (2019 – present), and was the Deputy Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2018). He is/has been Associate Editor of the following international journals:

• IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – part I
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – part II
• Microelectronics Journal
• and various others.

Companies

• Professor National University of Singapore (2013)
• Associate Professor Università di Siena (2002 — 2013)
• Visiting Scientist Intel Corporation (2013 — 2013)
• visiting professor University of Michigan (2011 — 2012)
• Visiting Professor Berkeley Wireless Research Center, University of California at Berkeley (2009 — 2011)
• adjunct professor University of Catania (2000 — 2001)