Pierluigi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2015, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) and Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Pisa, Italy, and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. His research revolves around the high-assurance design of cyber-physical systems and systems-on-chip, spanning the whole spectrum from the mathematical foundations to design tools and applications, with emphasis on compositional methods for system design and requirement engineering. His research interests include methodologies and tools for the design and certification of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, secure and trustworthy hardware design, and mixed-signal electronic design automation.
Before returning to UC Berkeley, Pierluigi was the Kenneth C. Dahlberg Chair and an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Co-Director of the USC Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence. He also held research positions at the University of Pisa and IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, working on the design of energy-efficient A/D converters, frequency synthesizers for reconfigurable radio, and design methodologies for mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Pierluigi received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2019, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award in 2020, the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Early-Career Award in 2022, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2022, the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award in 2023, the Best Submission in the 2006 DAC (Design Automation Conference) and ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuit Conference) Design Competition, and Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) in 2016, the International Conference on Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE) in 2020, and the Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) in 2024. His awards and honors also include the UC Berkeley EECS Ph.D. Fellowship in 2008, the UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in 2013, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012 and 2014, and the UC Berkeley EECS David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize in 2016 for his doctoral research.