Chairs:
Roberto Passerone, University of Trento, Italy
Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA
Scope: Networked Embedded Systems Technology; Wireless Sensor Networks; Sensor Technology; Cyber Physical Systems; Design and Implementation; Design Methodologies and Tools; Models of Computation and Formal Methods; Hardware/Software Co-Design; IP Cores and Platforms; System on Chip and Architectures; Languages; Power Supply and Management; Data Integration and Fusion; Communication Modes; Quality of Service control; Case studies (industrial automation, automotive, avionics, communications...)
Roberto
Passerone received the Laurea degree summa cum laude in Electrical
Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1994, and the
Master's and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 and
2004, respectively. From 1998 to 2005, he was with Cadence Design
Systems, Berkeley, California, where he held various positions from
Senior Member of Technical Staff in the System Level Design product
group, to Research Scientist in the Cadence Berkeley Laboratories.
Since 2006 he is Assistant Professor with the Department of
Information and Communication Technology at the University of Trento,
Trento, Italy. His research interests include the design and
implementation of high performance microprocessor, system level
design, communication design and formal methods. In particular, he
has worked on the design of custom and semi-custom high performance
dedicated parallel architectures for image and signal processing.
Later, he has focused on design methodologies for embedded
hardware-software systems and on the synthesis and verification of
low level protocol converters and communication design, applying
these techniques to the automatic generation of transactors for
mixed transaction-based and RTL-based simulation. At the same time,
he has investigated the design of on-chip reliable clock
distribution networks in the face of process variations. Currently,
his interests include the development of contract and
interface-based modeling techniques for the design of heterogeneous
and hybrid embedded systems, with particular focus on the problem of
integration of different models of computation and the verification
of compatibility.
Richard Zurawski,
Fellow IEEE,
is with ISA Group, San Francisco, CA, involved in providing
solutions to 1000 Fortune companies.
He has over 30 years of academic and industrial experience,
including a regular professorial appointment at the Institute of
Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo, and full-time R&D advisor
with Kawasaki Electric, Tokyo. He has provided consulting services
to Kawasaki Electric, Ricoh, and Toshiba Corporations, Japan. He has
participated in a number of Japanese Intelligent Manufacturing
Systems programs.
Dr. Zurawski is editor of two book series: The Industrial Information
Technology, and Embedded Systems, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; and
past Editor in
Chief of the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2007-2010). He has
served as Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics (2006); has served as Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1994 – 2005);
Real-Time Systems; The International Journal of Time-Critical
Computing Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997-2003),
The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems,
World Scientific Publishing Company (1996-1997).
He was a Guest Editor of three special sections in IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics on factory automation and
factory communication systems. He was also a Guest Editor of a
special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE dedicated to
Industrial Communication Systems. Dr. Zurawski was invited by
IEEE Spectrum to contribute an article on Java technology to
“Technology 1999: Analysis and Forecast Issue".
He is a Senior Member, IES AdCom; he served as a Vice President of
the Industrial Electronics Society (1994-1997), Chairman of the IES
Factory Automation Council (1994-1997), Chairman of
the IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation (2005-2010). He was also on a
steering committee of the ASME/IEEE Journal of
Microelectromechanical Systems. In 1996, he received the Anthony
J. Hornfeck Service Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society.
He has served as a general (co-)chair for 22 IEEE conferences and
workshops; technical program co-chair for 6 IEEE conferences; track
(co-)chair for 17 IEEE conferences; member of program committees of
over 70 IEEE, IFAC, and others, conferences and workshops. Dr.
Zurawski has established three major technical events: IEEE Workshop
on Factory Communication Systems, IEEE International Conference on
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, and
IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems.
Dr Zurawski was Editor of five major handbooks: The Industrial
Information Technology Handbook, CRC Press; The Industrial
Communication Technology Handbook, CRC Press; Embedded Systems
Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; Integration Technologies for
Industrial Automated Systems, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; and
Embedded Systems Design and Verification, vol. 1, Embedded Systems
Handbook 2nd edition, and Networked Embedded Systems, vol. 2,
Embedded Systems Handbook 2nd edition, both CRC Press/Taylor &
Francis. Monographs: Communication Networks for Distributed Embedded
Systems, and Distributed Embedded Systems; A Cyber-Physical Systems
Perspective, both Springer USA.
Dr Zurawski received an M.Eng, in Electronics,
University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow; obtained a Ph.D. in
Computer Science, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Contact email address: r.zurawski@iestcfa.org
