Governing Body
Costas received a B.Sc. degree in Informatics and Computer Science from Moscow Power Engineering Institute – Technical University (MPEI-TU) with distinction and has entered the list of top 10 students of the MPEI-TU. He has completed an M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computing and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bristol (UoB), UK. Currently he is a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the UoB. Prior to this, he served as a research assistant at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge.
He co-authored more than 30 technical papers. He has received a Best Paper award for his paper “Reliability Aware Yield Improvement Technique for Nanotechnology Based Circuits” with G. Dimosthenous, C. Lisboa, L. Carro and D. K. Pradhan presented at the 22nd Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design SBCCI 2009.
Dhiraj is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. He previously held the COE Endowed Chair Professorship in Computer Science at Texas A & M University, also serving as Founder of the Laboratory of Computer Systems there. He has also worked as a Staff Engineer at IBM, and served as the Founding CEO of Reliable Computer Technology, Inc. A Fellow of ACM, the IEEE, and the Japan Society of Promotion of Science, Professor Pradhan is the recipient of a Humboldt Prize, Germany, and has numerous major technical publications spanning more than 30 years.
He is also the co-author and editor of various books, including Fault-Tolerant Computing: Theory and Techniques, volumes I and II (Prentice-Hall, 1986), Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems Design (Prentice-Hall, 1996; second print, 2003), and IC Manufacturability: The Art of Process and Design Integration (IEEE Press, 2000). Practical Design Verification (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Fault and Defect tolerance in Nanotechnology circuits (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Luigi Carro was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1962. He received the Electrical Engineering and the MSc degrees from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1991 he worked at ST-Microelectronics, Agrate, Italy, in the R&D group. In 1996 he received the Dr. degree in the area of Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He is presently a professor at the Applied Informatics Department at the Informatics Institute of UFRGS, in charge of Computer Architecture and Organization disciplines at the undergraduate levels.
He is also a member of the Graduation Program in Computer Science at UFRGS, where he is co-responsible for courses on Embedded Systems, Digital signal Processing, and VLSI Design. His primary research interests include embedded systems design, validation, automation and test, fault tolerance for future technologies and rapid system prototyping. He has published more than 150 technical papers on those topics and is the author of the book Digital systems Design and Prototyping (2001-in portuguese) and co-author of Fault-Tolerance Techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs (2006-Springer).
