Luca Benini
Benevolent Dictator for Life and overall inspirator of the PULP Platform project.
Davide Rossi
Project Leader responsible for the overall architectural development and for ASIC backend implementation. Main responsible for the DMA IP.
Francesco Conti
PULP “evangelist” and leader of HW acceleration and near sensor analytics efforts.
Frank K. Gürkaynak
Main responsible for EDA tools used for PULP development, for ASIC testing and for PULP didactic usage.
Andrea Cossettini
Andrea leads efforts in ultrasound and manages the Future Computing Lab (EFCL).
Ahmad Mirsalari
Ahmad works on ML for Approximate Computing, studying variable- and mixed-precision computing techniques to improve energy efficiency.
Alessandro Capotondi
Co-designer of the OpenMP parallel programming runtime for PULP.
Alessandro Nadalini
Alessandro works on RISC-V ISA extensions dedicated to the acceleration of mixed-precision QNNs inference on PULP clusters.
Alessandro Ottaviano
Alessandro researches the next generation Snitch based PULP systems.
Alessio Burello
Co-developer of DORY (Development Oriented to memoRY) framework for deep neural network execution on PULP.
Alfio Di Mauro
Event-based computing expert and tester guru in the making.
Amirhossein Kiamarzi
Amirhossein focuses on modeling hardware processors, accelerators and vector processor applications on GVSoC.
Andreas Kurth
1st Lieutenant of the group, keeper of HERO, the big PULP.
Angelo Garofalo
Angelo is working on PULP-NN, an optimized library for QNN inference on PULP Clusters.
Antonio Pullini
Lead designer of all PULP external interfaces and of the uDMA subsystem. The go-to person for ASIC backend implementation.
Arpan Prasad
Arpan will work on hardware accelerator design for Machine Learning Applications.
Benedetta Mazzoni
Benedetta works on ML algorithms and systems for bio applications in real-time optimized for PULP.
Chi Zhang
Chi works on memory systems and interfaces. His interests include HPC architectures, energy-efficient HW and heterogenous architectures.
Cristian Cioflan
Cristian aspires to become the master of ML on constrained embedded devices and strives to bring "Aha!" moments to our students.
Christoph Leitner
Christoph's research is focused on ultrasound applications.
Cyril Koenig
Cyril works on our heterogenous HPC architecture. His interests include
SoC design and low level programming.
Daniele Palossi
Daniele researches deep learning applications for PULP-based autonomous flying drones.
Davide Nadalini
In an effort to make things smart(er), Davide develops On-Device Learning applications for PULP.
Enrico Zelioli
Enrico works on the virtualization solutions for RISC-V mixed-criticality systems
Florian Glaser
Designer and maintainer of the new event unit in PULP.
Gamze Islamoglu
Gamze works on hardware architectures for machine learning applications.
Georg Rutishauser
Georg works on mixed-precision ML acceleration and compression techniques for deep-learning related memory transfers.
Germain Haugou
Leader of all software integration efforts, main developer of the PULP hardware abstraction layer, runtime and SDK.
Giovanni Bambini
Giovanni uses PULP to keep microprocessors cool and fast, deploying control algorithms for thermal and power capping.
Giuseppe Tagliavini
Develops compiler extensions and exotic runtime environments for emerging computing paradigms. A space cowboy of embedded SW.
Hanna Müller
Hanna works on drones and wind turbine monitoring.
Jonas Kühne
Jonas researches computer vision and perception for drone applications.
Julian Moosmann
Julian works on tinyML applications for PULP, especially using dynamic vision cameras.
Lorenzo Lamberti
Lorenzo works on drones.
Luca Bertaccini
Luca works on PULP based accelerators.
Luca Bompani
Luca is the developer of Ultra-low power machine learning based application.
Luca Colagrande
Luca researches efficient and scalable HPC systems.
Luca Valente
Luca works on debugging PULP and testing peripherals.
Luka Macan
Luka is our Croatian PULP enthusiast who is working on tools for
deployment of deep learning applications on our platforms.
Mahyar Pourjabar
Mahyar works on drone swarm applications and indoor localization.
Maicol Ciani
Maicol's work is focused on security extensions to PULP SoCs.
Manuele Rusci
Designer of interfaces with ultra-low power sensors, and developer of related applications.
Marcello Zanghieri
Marcello works on Deep Learning for Human-Machine Interfaces, researching models suitable for execution on ultra-low-power microcontrollers.
Marco Bertuletti
Marco implements DSP algorithms on PULP and parallelizes algorithms
of 5G PUSCH channel on Mempool.
Marco Guermandi
Designer of PULP-based Human-Machine-Interfaces and related applications.
Matteo Perotti
Matteo works on PULP core development.
Mattia Orlandi
Mattia researches bioinspired approaches for developing ultra low-power Human-Machine Interfaces based on ExG signals.
Mattia Sinigaglia
Our peripheral's master. Mattia works on integrating and testing peripherals in PULP.
Michael Rogenmoser
Michael will be working on adding fault tolerance to PULP systems. He wants
to be the first PULP member in space.
Moritz Scherer
Moritz's research focuses on ML accelerators.
Moritz Schneider
Our expert for security extensions on PULP systems
Nazareno Bruschi
Nazareno works on quantized neural networks in extreme edge devices and GVSoC PULP Simulator.
Nils Wistoff
Nils works on securing RISC-V architectures and supporting Ariane development.
Paul Scheffler
Paul researches future PULP systems.
Philip Wiese
Philip focuses on the deployment of ML models on heterogeneous many-core systems and environmental sensing with on-device training capabilities.
Philipp Mayer
Philipp is going to develop embedded applications around PULP.
Pierangelo Rapa
Pierangelo works on biosignals and ultra-low-power HMIs with specific emphasis on their application in the automotive industry.
Pirmin Vogel
Leads efforts to use PULP within a heterogeneous system architecture; designer of the Linux driver runtime for ARM based host systems.
Riccardo Tedeschi
Riccardo works on extending PULP IPs to address safety critical applications.
Robert Balas
Robert works on debugging PULP.
Samuel Riedel
Samuel works on MemPool and the synchronization of manycore systems.
Sergei Vostrikov
Sergei works on ultrasound architectures.
Sergio Mazzola
He will be involved in the Ampere project working on multi-criterion optimization making the use of HERO.
Thomas Benz
Thomas works on PULP cores.
Thorir Ingolfsson
Thorir works on Machine Learning applications.
Tim Fischer
Tim works on HPC systems for Machine Learning and AI workloads.
Tommaso Polonelli
Designer of multi-protocol wireless interfaces and developer of related applications.
Victor Jung
Victor tweaks algorithms so that they work on our newest platforms.
Victor Kartsch
Victor develops ultra low-power Human Machine Interaction applications based on EMG/EEG signals.
Viviane Potocnik
Viviane will be working on MiniFloat training on Snitch-based platforms and developing the software stack for novel hardware architectures.
Vlad Niculescu
Vlad works on drone applications.
Xiaying Wang
Xia works on programming PULP-based systems.
Yawei Li
Our machine learning expert. Works on the development and deployment of multimodal foundation models.
Yichao Zhang
Yichao conducts his research in IC physical design.
Yvan Tortorella
Yvan works on developing computing architectures and accelerators for space applications.
Zexin Fu
Zexin works on cache systems, cache coherence and on-chip network design.
Silent / Past collaborators
Current collaborators without a profile image
- Eric Flamand - Designer of our RISC-V ISA extensions for DSP and main developer of the enhanced GCC toolchain for RI5CY.
- Igor Loi - Lead designer of all internal interconnect IPs and of the cluster instruction cache. He is also the responsible for frontend ASIC synthesis.
Past collaborators
- Gianna Paulin - worked on machine learning applications
- Jannis Schönleber - worked on deep neural network acceleration
- Matheus Cavalcante - worked on vector processing unit of PULP for HPC architectures
- Manuel Eggimann - worked on ExG signal related biomedical applications
- Matteo Spallanzani - worked on data analytics, ML, QNN and algorithmic optimizations
- Florian Zaruba - designer of the PULPino Imperio chip, developer of Ariane, master of the Snitches
- Stefan Mach - the ultimate master of the Floating Point Unit (FPU)
- Michael Hersche - used to work on Machine Learning applications
- Fabio Montagna - worked on human-computer interfaces based on ExG signals
- Francesco Paci - works on Embedded Computer Vision at GreenWaves Technologies in Grenoble
- Fabian Schuiki - standard-cell memory guru, hardware designer and tamer of the Snitches
- Davide Schiavone - designer of the DSP extensions for the OR10N and RI5CY cores, and the RI5CY maintainer
- Andrea Marongiu - co-designer of the OpenMP parallel programming runtime for PULP
- Maxim Mattheuws - worked on predictable execution of PULP-based systems
- Michael Schaffner - used to be the co-leader of the development of the shared FPU/LNU IPs for PULP and the main author of our logo
- Michael Gautschi - used to be the leader of the PULPino project and of the development of the shared FPU/LNU. He was also one of the designers of the OR10N and RI5CY cores
- Giovanni Rovere - worked on the VivoSoC project
- Renzo Andri - original co-designer of the OR10N core
Past student contributions
- Andreas Traber - Designer and main maintainer of the RI5CY core, and original designer and maintainer of PULPino.
- Sven Stucki - Original designer of the porting of OR10N to the RISC-V ISA, which became the RI5CY core.
- Robert Schilling - Designer of encryption HW accelerator for the PULP platform.
- Matthias Baer - Original co-designer of the OR10N core.