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.  -- (last update 20/05/2024)

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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”

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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

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)
• H2TRAIN: Enabling digital technologies for Holistic Health-lifestyle motivational and assisTed supeRvision supported by Artificial Intelligence Networks - HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA CHIPS JU

 

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

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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.

 

 

 

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