Christian Pilato
Chair at Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolChristian Pilato is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano and current Chair of ACM SIGDA, bringing over a decade of experience in system-level design, hardware acceleration, and hardware–software co-design for heterogeneous FPGA and ASIC systems. He leads research and applied projects on high-level synthesis, hardware security, and memory architectures, translating academic innovation into trustworthy, energy-efficient SoC solutions. Christian coordinated the EU Horizon 2020 EVEREST project and maintains strong ties with industry and conferences (DAC, ICCAD, DATE, FPL), reflecting a track record of large-scale collaboration and community impact. His career includes research stints at Columbia, TU Delft, NYU, and USI, giving him a rare blend of international academic and practical engineering perspectives. An IEEE/ACM senior member and IEEE TCAD associate editor, he is also passionate about strengthening open-source EDA and bridging research with real-world deployment. Beyond publications, he has hands-on experience building FPGA prototypes and RTL obfuscation tools that demonstrate his focus on practical, security-aware accelerator design.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano
English
Github Skills (1)
fpga8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
chrpilat/mnemosyne
Oct 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
everest-h2020/everest-sdk
May 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 days
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