Keynotes

Prof. Dr. Luca Benini, ETH Zürich

Designing Reliable and Efficient Integrated Systems for Embodied AI - An Open Platform Approach

Autonomous systems, such as robots, cars and satellites, are now AI-first designs, and require sustained energy efficiency improvements in the design of their control and intelligence functions. Efficiency is not the only key constraint, as safety and long-term reliability are extremely critical for autonomous operation. To tackle the compound challenge, we need to aggressively optimize efficiency, leveraging specialization across all levels of the design hierarchy, pushing into domain-specific design automation tools and methodologies, while at the same time accounting for the increasing reliability concerns in advanced integrated-circuits technologies. In this talk, Luca Benini will give concrete examples of deep domain specialization, for efficient and safe, reliable operation, emphasizing the strategic importance of an end-to-end open-platform approach.

Biography

Prof. Dr. Luca Benini holds the chair of digital Circuits and systems at ETHZ and is Full Professor at the Università di Bologna. He received a PhD from Stanford University. His research interests are in energy-​efficient parallel computing systems, smart sensing micro- ​systems and machine learning hardware. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM, a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology.

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