Giovanni De Micheli

Giovanni De Micheli is a computer scientist and professor and director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, credited with inventing the Network on a Chip design automation paradigm and developing algorithms and tools for electronic design automation. He previously held a professorship in electrical engineering at Stanford University, served as director of EPFL's Electrical Engineering Institute from 2008 to 2019, and led the Swiss federal Nano-Tera.ch initiative. De Micheli earned his nuclear engineering degree from the Politecnico di Milano and his master's and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, and his honors include the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award and the 2019 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award.