David Atienza Alonso is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the EcoCloud Center for sustainable computing, and heads the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at EPFL, Switzerland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Complutense Univ. of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and IMEC, Belgium, in 2001 and 2005. His research interests include system-level design methodologies for high-performance multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) and low-power edge AI architectures for Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, including new 2-D/3-D thermal-aware design for MPSoCs and many-core servers, ultra-low power system architectures for wearable systems and Tiny ML computing, HW/SW reconfigurable systems, and memory hierarchy optimizations.
Prof. Atienza has co-authored more than 450 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, several book chapters, and 14 patents in these fields. He serves as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE TCAD (period 2022-2025), ACM CSUR (since 2024) and Deputy EiC of IEEE TCASAI. Dr. Atienza has earned several best paper awards and recognitions, among them, the ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award, the IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award, an ERC Consolidator Grant, the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in 2013, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2012, and a Faculty Award from Sun Labs at Oracle in 2011. He served as President of IEEE CEDA in the period 2018-2019 and was GOLD member of the Board of Governors of IEEE CASS from 2010 to 2012. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of ACM.