Paolo Meloni is currently associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) at the University of Cagliari. He is author of several international papers and tutor of many bachelor and master students’ thesis in Electronic Engineering. His research activity is mainly focused on the development of advanced digital systems, with emphasis on the application-driven design and programming of multi-core on-chip architectures and FPGAs.

Academic education:

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
November 2004 – October 2007
Thesis title: “Design and optimization techniques for VLSI network on chip architectures”

Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
September 1998 – October 2004
Thesis title: “Sviluppo di architetture VLSI per Network on Chip: moduli di conversione OCP-Xpipes”

Scientific activity:

Paolo Meloni is associate professor at the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering
June 2022 - Today

Paolo Meloni is assistant professor at the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering
October 2012 – June 2022

Paolo Meloni has worked as research assistant at the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering
November 2007 – October 2012

Research fellowships:

SHAPES: Design of advanced on-chip communication architectures

Development and design of hardware components for on-chip communication architectures for high-performance computing

SHMPI: Scalable Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Infrastructure.

Activity topics:

Advanced Digital Systems Development and application-driven design of multiprocessor on-chip architectures

Advanced architectures for on-chip interconnections Methodologies for the on-chip interconnect design and optimization with “technology and implementation awareness”

Methodologies for the pre-estimation of power consumption and area occupation in network-on-chip hardware modules

Multi-objective optimization of memory hierarchies and interconnection network in parallel on-chip architectures

Heterogeneous systems-on-chip for parallel computing.

Projects:

SHAPES: Scalable Software Hardware Application Platform for Embedded Systems – FP6 EU funding (2006-2009)

ALBA: Low-power reconfigurable computing for digital signal processing – MIUR National Funding (2007- today)

MADNESS: Methods for predictAble Design of heterogeneous Embedded Systems with adaptivity and reliability Support – FP7 EU funding (2010-today, web: http://www.madnessproject.org)

ASAM: Automatic Architecture Synthesis and Application Mapping – Artemis JU Funding (2010-today, web: http://www.asam-project.org)

ALOHA (scientific coordinator): Software framework for runtime-Adaptive and secure deep Learning On Heterogeneous Architectures - EU H2020 funding (2018- 2022, web: https://www.aloha-h2020.eu/)

EdgeAI: Edge AI Technologies for Optimised Performance Embedded Processing - HORIZON.2.4.2 - Key Digital Technologies (2022-2025)

 

Teaching activity:

 

Course: Advanced Embedded Systems

Course: Sistemi a Microcontrollore

Previous teaching activity:

Lecturer activity:
Course: Electronics
Department of Computer Science, University of Cagliari,
Academic Year: 2007-2008
Course: Embedded Systems
Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari,
Academic Year: 2010-2011

Teaching assistant activity:
Course: Embedded Systems
Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari
Academic Year: 2004-2010
Course: Digital systems and processors
Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari
Academic Year: 2004-2007

International research collaborations:

Within his research activity, Paolo Meloni personally and directly cooperates on a daily bases with researches from first-class academic and industrial factors in the field of Electronic Engineering

Silicon Hive BV, Eindhoven, The Nederlands

Universiteit Leiden, The Nederlands

Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Nederlands

Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Lantiq, Munich, Germany

Technishe Universiteit Eindhoven, The Nederlands

iNoCs, Lausanne, Switzerland

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

ST Microelectronics, Catania, Italy

Università di Bologna, Italy