Luciano Lavagno received his Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley (California, USA) in 1992 and from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1993.
He co-authored two books on asynchronous circuit design, a book on hardware/software co-design of embedded systems, the CRC Handbook on Electronic Design Automation, and over 200 scientific papers. He has been granted 12 US patents.
Between 1993 and 2000 he was the architect of the POLIS project, a cooperation between U.C. Berkeley, Cadence Design Systems, Magneti Marelli and Politecnico di Torino, which developed a complete hardware/software co-design environment for control-dominated embedded systems.
Between 2003 and 2014 he has been one of the creators and architects of the Cadence C-to-Silicon high-level synthesis system.
Between 2015 and 2017 he has worked, with the Calypto group of Mentor Graphics, on their high level synthesis tool, called Catapult.
Since 2011 he is a full professor with Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Luciano has been serving for many years on the technical committees of the main international conferences in his field (e.g. DAC, DATE, ICCAD, ICCD, ASYNC, CODES) and of various workshops and symposia. He has been the technical program chair of DAC, and the TPC and general chair of CODES. A senior member of IEEE, Luciano has been also associate editor of IEEE TCAS and ACM TECS. His research interests include the synthesis of asynchronous low-power circuits, the concurrent design of mixed hardware and software embedded systems, the high-level synthesis of digital circuits, the design and optimization of hardware components and protocols for wireless sensor networks.