Luca Sterpone

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Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

  • Member Academic Senate
  • Member of the University delegation for trade unions relations
  • Head of Department Department of Control and Computer Engineering
  • Member of Interdepartmental Center PEIC - Power Electronics Innovation Center
  • Member University Committee for Research, Technology Transfer and Services to the Community

Profile

Research interests

Embedded system design

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

IINF-05/A - Information Processing Systems
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE6_6 - Algorithms, distributed, parallel and network algorithms, algorithmic game theory
PE6_1 - Computer architecture, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing
PE6_2 - Computer systems, parallel/distributed systems, sensor networks, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems
PE7_7 - Signal processing

Awards and Honors

  • IEEE European Test Symposium 2005 BEST PAPER AWARD conferred by IEEE ETS, United kingdom (2005)
  • EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award conferred by European Design and Automation Association (EDAA), Francia (2007)

Editorial boards

  • INTEGRATION (2014-), Director

Conferences

  • IEEE ACM Hipeac Reconfigurable Computing Conference, Program chair
  • IEEE Adaptive Hardware and Systems, Program chair
  • IEEE ACM Hipeac Reconfigurable Computing Conference, Program chair

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Visiting Researcher, presso University of Bielefeld (10/4/2013-20/7/2014)
  • Ricercatore, presso European Space Agency (15/3/2011-31/12/2015)
  • Visiting Professor, presso Universidad de Sevilla (27/5/2010-7/6/2010)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. - Roma (1/11/2009-30/11/2009)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Universität Paderborn (1/6/2009-30/12/2011)
  • Visiting Professor, presso Universidad de Sevilla (20/5/2008-28/5/2008)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso EADS Innovation Works (6/9/2007-15/9/2007)
  • Visiting Researcher, presso Boeing Satellite System (1/6/2006-30/6/2006)
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Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

  • GPU programming. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
  • GPU programming. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
  • Tirocinio. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
  • GPU programming. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
  • Tirocinio. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
  • Tirocinio. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA DEL CINEMA E DEI MEZZI DI COMUNICAZIONE. Titolare del corso
  • Tirocinio. A.A. 2020/21, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
  • Internship. A.A. 2020/21, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
  • Tirocinio. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
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Bachelor of Science

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Teaching and training projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Projects funded by commercial contracts

Other activities and projects related to teaching

The teaching activity of Luca Sterpone has been focused on three fundamental courses for the Bachelor degree (Laurea) in Computer Engineering: Computer Science, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems.

Luca Sterpone actively contributes to the innovation of the courses contents in particular promoting the adoption of state-of-the-art scripting language for the courses of Operating Systems and contributing to the adoption of modern MIPS architecture for the course of Computer Architecture. Besides, since the academic year 2014/2015, Luca Sterpone is formal responsible of the PhD course of Reconfigurable Computing whose content has been personally created and managed. The course is constantly updated with the research advancements in the area of reconfigurable computing and it has an average of 15 PhD students per academic year.

• Formal responsibility of Bachelor’s (Laurea) and Master of Science’s (Laurea Magistrale) degree courses in Italian and/or foreign universities

- Computer Science, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 9 years, (A.A. 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019)

- Operating Systems, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 7 years (A.A. 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)

- Computer Architecture, Politecnico di Torino, Italian language, 3 years (A.A. 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)

• Formal responsibility of PhD courses in Italian and/or foreign universities.

- Reconfigurable Computing, English, 7 years (A.A. 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)

Research

Research groups

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Projects funded by commercial contracts

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Supervised PhD students

  • Arash Amini Bardpareh. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2025-in progress)
  • Federico Buccellato. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
    Research subject: High-End AI-Enhanced Computing System for Space Application
    Computer architectures and Computer aided design
    Data science, Computer vision and AI
    Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing
    Software engineering and Mobile computing
    Computer architectures and Computer aided design
    Data science, Computer vision and AI
    Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing
    Software engineering and Mobile computing
  • Aobo Cui. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40th cycle, 2025-in progress)
  • Giorgio Cora. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
    Research subject: Resilient computing architecture in the space quantum communication era
    Computer architectures and Computer aided design
    Computer architectures and Computer aided design
  • Rosario Milazzo. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (38th cycle, 2023-in progress)
    Data science, Computer vision and AI
    Data science, Computer vision and AI
    Data science, Computer vision and AI
  • Andrea Portaluri. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
  • Eleonora Vacca. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
    Research subject: Reconfigurable Accelerators Design Methods for High Reliability Space Applications
    Computer architectures and Computer aided design
  • Corrado De Sio. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
    Thesis: Toward Fault-Tolerant Applications on Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip
    Controls and system engineering
    Cybersecurity
    Controls and system engineering
    Cybersecurity
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Other activities and projects related to research

Luca Sterpone coordinates the “Aerospace and Reconfigurable Computing Team” within the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica of Politecnico di Torino. The group is federated within the CAD group leaded by Prof. Matteo Sonza Reorda. All the people of the “Aerospace and Reconfigurabble Computing Team” are fully managed by Luca Sterpone in terms of financial support (contracts, missions and other expenses), research support (computers, boards and any type of equipment). The group includes the following member:

- Boyang Du, Assistant Professor – RTD-A
- Sarah Azimi, Post-Doc
- Ludovica Bozzoli, PhD Student, Cycle 33
- Corrado De Sio, PhD Student, Cycle 35

Luca Sterpone coordinates different collaborations at the national and international level:
- Coordination of the research activity with the Computing System for Space (COSYSPACE) leaded by Monica Alderighi of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF).
- Principal Investigator of the Politecnico di Torino group within the VEGAS H2020 project.
- Coordination of the research activity with the group Radiation Effects and Circuit Designs (RADUS) ofl Prof. Miguel Angel Aguirre Echànove from School of Engineering of Sevilla.
- Management with the Xilinx INC company of the “Single Event Effects European Consortium” supported by Xilinx INC,
- General Motor (GM). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity with the Electronics, SW Integration and Testing and Control GM control group.
- European Space Agency (ESA). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity with the ASIC/FPGA Engineer division TEC-EDM of ESA.
- Thales Alenia Space (TAS). In the framework of the research collaboration, Luca Sterpone coordinates the research activity related to the radiation test execution, analysis tools and mitigation for ASIC and FPGA devices for space satellites.

Luca Sterpone has been the academic tutor of the Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (ReCoUAV) project for the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) in the period 2012 – 2014 managing eight students divided in two teams with the purpose of investigating the potential future applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on a reconfigurable flight computer for civil purpose [PR1].
• Scientific responsibility (Principal investigator) of Italian and International research projects, awarded through a peer-review process
- Luca Sterpone has been the scientific responsible (Principal Investigator) of the Politecnico di Torino research unit in the framework of the European Innovation Triangle Initiative (ITI) entitled “On-line Testing and Healing Permanent Radiation Effects in Reconfigurable Systems” – code A00016022 with the following other research units:
European Space Agency
University of Bielefeld
Università di Pisa
Politecnico di Torino

- Luca Sterpone is the scientific responsible of the Politecnico di Torino research unit in the framework of the H2020 VEGAS - Validation of European High Capacity rad-hard FPGA and software tools - http://vegas.nanoxplore.com/


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