Stefano Quer

Bio

Stefano Quer is a professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He received his M.S. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1991 and earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research.
His career includes several significant international experiences. He was a Visiting Faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from 1994 to 1995. Subsequently, he held visiting researcher positions at the "Advanced Technology Group" at Synopsys Inc. in 1998 and the "Alpha Development Group" at Compaq Computer Corporation in 1999. He served as a consultant for Compaq in 2000.
Since 1992, Stefano Quer has been actively teaching computer engineering courses, focusing on advanced algorithms, operating systems, concurrent programming, and system and device programming. His research interests are broad, encompassing systems and tools for CAD for VLSI, formal validation methods for hardware and software systems, embedded systems, and sensor networks. He also focuses on developing parallel algorithms and optimization techniques to achieve practical solutions with limited resources.
In recognition of his work, he received a Best Paper Award at the 1994 IEEE European Design Automation Conference (EURO-DAC '94). He is an active contributor to the scientific community, a reviewer for international journals and conferences, and a member of the Topical Advisor Panel for the MDPI journals Sensors and Applied Science. Furthermore, he has served as a chair or member of the Technical Program Committees for numerous prestigious conferences, including DATE, ICCAD, DAC, ICSOFT, GLSVLSI, SOFTENG, and IWLS.
He has co-authored many papers for refereed journals and international conferences and has participated in various Italian and European projects.