He received the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering, in 2006, from Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering in the same University. Previously, he was consultant engineer in the Low Power Design Group of AST – STMicroelectronics, and research assistant at the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) – Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana. His research interests include design methodologies and architectures for Embedded and High-Performance Computing systems, application autotuning, and extreme-scale virtual screening. Since 2003, he published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and participated to more than 10 EU funded projects.