David Atienza

Professor
David Atienza Alonso
David Atienza Alonso
Born1978 (age 45–46)
CitizenshipSpain, Switzerland
Board member ofChair of the EDAA (2022-now)
Director of the Section of Electrical Engineering of EPFL (2019–2022)
President of IEEE CEDA (2018–2019)
General Chair of DATE (2017)
Technical Program Chair of DATE (2015)
Gold Member of the Board of Governors IEEE CASS (2010–2012)
Academic background
EducationComputer Engineering
Computer Architecture
Computer Science
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Doctoral advisorFrancky Catthoor, and J. Mendias
Academic work
DisciplineEngineering
Computer engineering
Electronics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsEmbedded Systems
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Low-power Electronics
Wearable Devices
Systems Architecture
Machine Learning
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/esl/

David Atienza Alonso is a Spanish/Swiss scientist in the disciplines of computer and electrical engineering. His research focuses on hardware‐software co‐design and management for energy‐efficient and thermal-aware computing systems, always starting from a system‐level perspective to the actual electronic design. He is a full professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL).[1] He is an IEEE Fellow (2016),[2] and an ACM Fellow (2022).[3]

  1. ^ "ESL". www.epfl.ch/labs/esl.
  2. ^ "2016 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-18.