Prof. Massimo Alioto

SHORT BIO:

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.

He is/was also

  • Special issue Guest Editor
    • IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, special issue on “Energy-Quality Scalable Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Computing: from Approximate, to Communication-Inspired and Learning-Based” (Sept. and Dec. 2018, with V. De, A. Marongiu as co-Editors)
    • IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – Part I, special issue on “Integrated circuits and systems for the Internet of Things – from sensing to sensemaking of physical data” (Sept. 2017, with A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, E. Sanchez-Sinencio as co-Editors)
    • Elsevier Integration – the VLSI Journal, Special Issue on best papers from PRIME 2017
    • IEEE TCAS-II Special Issue on “Ultra-Low Voltage Circuits and Systems for Green Computing” (Dec. 2012)
    • and several others.
  • Organizer of the Advanced Engineering MEAD Course on “Energy-constrained integrated systems” (2018) along with Prof. Eduard Alarcon (UPC Barcelona), with speakers as follows: Prof. Jan Rabaey (UCBerkeley), Prof. Boris Murmann (Stanford), Prof. Hoi-Jun Yoo (KAIST), Prof. Bogdan Staszewsi/Teerachot Siriburanon (UCD),  as speakers (first MEAD course in Asia)
  • TPC member
    • ISSCC for the “Digital architectures and systems” subcommittee
    •  ASSCC for the “Digital circuits and systems” subcommittee
  • Chair of the “VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee of the IEEE CAS Society (2010-2012)
  • General Chair for
    • 31th IEEE International System-On-Chip Conference – SOCC 2018 (Washington DC, USA)
  • Technical Program Chair for
    • IEEE ISCAS 2023 (Monterey, California)
    • IEEE Midwest Symposium 2022 –
      MWSCAS 2022 Fukuoka (Japan)
    • 30th IEEE International System-On-Chip Conference – SOCC 2017 (Munich, Germany)
    • IEEE PRIME 2017 (Taormina, Italy)
    • 29th IEEE International System-On-Chip Conference – SOCC 2016 (Seattle, USA)
    • IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems – ICECS 2015 (Cairo, Egypt)
    • IEEE European Workshop on CMOS Variability (VARI) 2015
    • IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems – ICECS 2013 (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
    • IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference – NEWCAS 2012 (Montreal, Canada)
    • IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics – ICM 2010 (Cairo, Egypt)
  • TPC conference member
    • “Digital Architectures and Systems” (DAS) technical subcommittee of the ISSCC conference (2019 – present)
    • “Digital Circuits” (DCT) technical subcommittee of the ISSCC conference (2018 – 2019)
    • Member of the “Digital Circuits and Systems” technical committee of the ASSCC conference (2018 – present)
  • Track Chair for the following international conferences:
    • ICCD 2017 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • ISCAS 2017 for the special journal section
    • NEWCAS 2017 for the area “Digital & Computing Circuits & Architectures”
    • ICECS 2016 for the area “VLSI Systems, NoC, SoC, CAD, and Layout”
    • ICCD 2016 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • MWSCAS 2016 for the area “Systems on-chip for IoT”
    • NEWCAS 2016 for the area “Digital & Computing Circuits & Architectures”
    • ICCD 2015 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • NEWCAS 2015 for the Area “Digital Circuit Design & Low Power”
    • ICCD 2014 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’14)
    • ICCD 2013 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • VLSI-SoC 2013 for the area “Transistor Level Digital VLSI Circuits and Memory”
    • NEWCAS 2013 for the Area “Low-Power Design Techniques”
    • ICECS 2012 for the area “VLSI Systems, Architectures and Applications”
    • ISCAS 2012 for the area “VLSI Systems and Applications”
    • ICCD 2012 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • MWSCAS 2012
    • APCCAS 2012
    • ISCAS 2011 for the area “VLSI Systems and Applications”
    • ICCD 2011 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • ISCAS 2010 for the area “VLSI Systems and Applications”
    • ICCD 2010 for the area “Logic and Circuits”
    • ICM 2009 for the area “Circuit design”
    • ISCAS 2009 for the area “VLSI Systems and Applications” (2008)
    • ICECS 2007 for the area “Digital circuits” (2007)
  • Editor of the River Publishers book “Series in Circuits & Systems”
  • Member of IEEE committees
    • 2020 Outstanding Young Author Best Paper Award committee
    • Meritorious Service Award Subcommittee for IEEE CASS (2020-2021)
    • John Choma Education Award Sub-committee for IEEE CASS (2020)
    • o   member of the CASS Nominations Committee Appointment
    • Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2015-2020)
    • IEEE CASS Co-Chair of the Industrial Distinguished Lecturer Program (2015-present)
    • IEEE CASS Long Term Strategic Committee (2015-present)
    • committee to assign the Best Paper Award for IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems (2012-present)
    • IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer Program coordinating committee (2011-2014, 2016-present)
    • IEEE CASS Anti-Plagiarism Committee (2012-2014)
    • member of the committee to assign the Best Paper Award for IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems (2012-present)
    • Member of the IEEE CASS DLP coordinating committee (2011-2014)
  • Chair in international conferences
    • Publication chair, AICAS 2022
    • Tutorials chair, ISCAS 2021
    • Co-organizer of the ISSCC 2020 Evening Session “The smartest designer of the universe” (winning the Outstanding Evening Session Award)
    • AICAS2021 Advisory Committee
    • ISCAS 2016 Special Sessions Chair
    • APCCAS 2016 Special Sessions Chair
    • SOCC 2015 Special Sessions Chair
    • ISCAS 2012 Poster Session Chair
    • Tutorial Chair for the international conference ICECS 2011