Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)
- Coordinator Academic Board - Ph.D. programme in Artificial Intelligence
- Member of Interdepartmental Center PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab
- Member Doctoral School Board
Profile
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Biography
Stefano Di Carlo is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. His scientific activity lies in the field of computer engineering and focuses in particular on computer system architectures, digital system reliability, hardware security, neuromorphic computing, and the application of artificial intelligence and bioinformatics techniques to the analysis of complex systems. He received both his degree and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, where he developed his entire academic career, serving as researcher, associate professor, and full professor. Throughout his career, he has conducted research on methodologies for testing and verifying digital systems, techniques to improve the resilience of hardware and software systems, and innovative solutions for protecting and analyzing complex architectures. He has also contributed to interdisciplinary projects integrating computer engineering, artificial intelligence, and computational biology. He teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, covering operating systems, system programming, and computer architectures. He has supervised numerous master’s and Ph.D. students and collaborates with national and international research groups.
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award conferred by IEEE Computer Society, Italy (2005)
- IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award conferred by IEEE Computer Society, United States (2006)
- Best paper award conferred by Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2010), Italy (2010)
- IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award conferred by IEEE Computer Society, Italy (2010)
- Best paper award conferred by Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2012), Italy (2012)
- Best Paper Award conferred by Program Committee 16th IEEE International Symposium on Design & Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS 2013)., Italy (2013)
- Best Paper Award conferred by Program committee of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (BIOINFORMATICS/BIOSTEC 2014), Italy (2014)
Fellowships
- Fellow - IEEE, Stati Uniti (2011-)
IEEE Senior Member
Editorial boards
- JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING (2013-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
Conferences
- Design Automation Conference (22/6/2025-25/6/2025), Program committee
Research networks
- Test Technology Technical Community (TTTC) (2022-). Coordinamento
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
- Fondazione di partecipazione “SERICS - Security and Rights in CyberSpace ", (2022-) - Responsabile Scientifico
Enti Partecipati - PNRR - SERICSAddendum Spoke 7, (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - PNRR - SERICSAddendum Spoke 5, (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - PNRR - SERICSAddendum Spoke 8, (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - PNRR - Spoke 5 - Accordo per la regolamentazione dei rapporti tra Hub ed i Soggetti Realizzatori (Spoke e Affiliati) relativi all’attuazione del Partenariato esteso Serics , (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - PNRR - Accordo per la regolamentazione dei rapporti tra Hub ed i Soggetti Realizzatori (Spoke e Affiliati) relativi all’attuazione del Partenariato esteso Serics - Security and Rights in Cyber Space - SPOKE 8, (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements - PNRR - Accordo per la regolamentazione dei rapporti tra Hub ed i Soggetti Realizzatori (Spoke e Affiliati) relativi all’attuazione del Partenariato esteso Serics - Security and Rights in Cyber Space - SPOKE 7, (2023-2026) - Responsabile contrattuale
Non-commercial collaboration agreements
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE (DOTTORATO NAZIONALE), 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE (DOTTORATO NAZIONALE), 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - NAZIONALE IN INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE, 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
Collegi of the degree programmes
Teachings
PhD
- Toolkit for PhD in Computer and Control Engineering. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI. Teaching assistant
- Biologia Computazionale dei Sistemi. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI. Main teacher
- Approximate computing paradigms: from component to application-level. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Operating systems for embedded systems. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Computer architectures and operating systems. A.A. 2024/25, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
- Operating systems for embedded systems. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Computer architectures and operating systems. A.A. 2023/24, CYBERSECURITY. Titolare del corso
- Operating systems for embedded systems. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems for embedded systems. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Programmazione di sistema. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
- Operating systems for embedded systems. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Programmazione di sistema. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
- Operating systems. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA (ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Challenge@PoliTo by Students - Artificial Intelligence: Shape the future. A.A. 2020/21, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Object oriented programming. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Object oriented programming. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Programmazione a oggetti. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Titolare del corso
Research
Research groups
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- BESOS_RP: strumento innovativo di analisi del Benessere e della Sostenibilità per l’allevatore di bovini di Razza Piemontese., (2024-2027) - Responsabile Scientifico
Regionally funded research - Saisei - Multi-Scale Protocols Generation for Intelligent Biofabrication, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - Vitamin-V - Virtual Environment and Tool-boxing for Trustworthy Development of RISC-V based Cloud Services, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Global Challenges - Digital, Industry and Space - SERICS - Spoke 7 - SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace (SERICS) – Spoke 7, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
PNRR – Mission 4 - APROPOS - Approximate Computing for Power and Energy Optimisation, (2020-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Excellent Science - Marie Curie - xxx - Metodo di simulazione via computer dell'ontogenesi di un sistema biologico e, opzionalmente, di generazione di un protocollo di coltura, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - CLERECO-CROSS-LAYER EARLY RELIABILITY EVALUATION FOR THE COMPUTING CONTINUUM, (2013-2016) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - VII PQ - COOPERATION - ICT
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- AI-Assisted Requirements Management for Automotive Control Units, (2025-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Modular avionic rack functionalities design and validation, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Nuovo concetto di architettura avionica basata su un modulo rack innovativo, (2023-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Sviluppo di procedure di test run-time ad alta copertura di fault detection, per microprocessori, memorie e altre risorse hardware (standard EN50129), (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Procedure di collaudo funzionale da eseguire a run-time su processori ARM®, Intel e relative periferiche, (2018-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Sistemi Embedded per applicazioni ferroviarie, (2018-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Francesco Corvaglia. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (41st cycle, 2026-in progress)
- Alessia Leclercq. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (41st cycle, 2026-in progress)
- Niccolo' Lentini. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (41st cycle, 2025-in progress)
- Davide Buoso. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Alessio Caviglia. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Behnam Farnaghinejad. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Improving the security of embedded systems running AI applications
Embedded AI TinyML Embedded AI TinyML Embedded AI TinyML - Filippo Marostica. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Enrico Magliano. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: Artificial Intelligence for Trustworthiness of Computing Systems
Anomaly detection Embedded AI Self-supervised and semi-supervised learning Anomaly detection Embedded AI Self-supervised and semi-supervised learning - Tzamn Melendez Carmona. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Nicola Scarano. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Riccardo Smeriglio. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Research subject: AI-Driven Approaches for Biofabrication in Neuroscience: Advancing Biological Data Analysis and Industrial Applications
Decision support systems in industry Explainable ML Self-supervised and semi-supervised learning Generative models and Generative Adversarial Networks Decision support systems in industry Explainable ML Self-supervised and semi-supervised learning Generative models and Generative Adversarial Networks - Tamer Ahmed Eltaras. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Data Privacy and Security in Federated Learning: Attacks and Defense Mechanisms
Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI Cybersecurity Data science, Computer vision and AI - Alessio Carpegna. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Hardware. Design and Optimization of Brain-Inspired Computing Paradigms for Spiking Neural Networks - Lorenzo Martini. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Multi-omic and multi-modal single-cell sequencing data analysis for investigating transcriptional regulation and cellular heterogeneity
Life sciences Life sciences - Cristiano Pegoraro Chenet. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Machine Learning Methods for Hardware-Based Malware Detection
Cybersecurity Cybersecurity - Sepide Saeedi. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
Thesis: Fast and Accurate Prediction of the Impact of Approximate Operators on a Complex Computation
Computer architectures and Computer aided design Data science, Computer vision and AI Computer architectures and Computer aided design Data science, Computer vision and AI - Franco Oberti. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Cybersecurity for future interconnected and smart vehicles
Publications
Last years publications
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- Caviglia, Alessio; Marostica, Filippo; Carpegna, Alessio; Savino, Alessandro; Di Carlo, ... (2025)
SFATTI: Spiking FPGA Accelerator For Temporal Task-Driven Inference - a Case Study on Mnist. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Workshops (ICIP), Anchorage, AK, USA, 14-17 September 2025, pp. 59-64. ISBN: 979-8-3315-7799-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Amprimo, Gianluca; Ancilotto, Alberto; Savino, Alessandro; Quazzolo, Fabio; Ferraris, ... (2025)
EHWGesture - A Dataset for Multimodal Understanding of Clinical Gestures. In: IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, Honolulu, HI, USA, 19-20 October 2025, pp. 2722-2731. ISBN: 979-8-3315-8988-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Carpegna, Alessio; Savino, Alessandro; Di Carlo, Stefano (2025)
Spiker+ Simplifying custom hardware for spiking neural networks. , HiPEAC pp. 18-19
Altro - Jenihhin, M.; Raik, J.; Jutman, A.; Cherezova, N.; Ubar, R.; Miclea, L.; Enyedi, S.; ... (2025)
European Test Symposium Teams: an Anniversary Snapshot. In: 2025 IEEE European Test Symposium, ETS 2025, Tallinn, Estonia, 26-30 May 2025, pp. 1-48. ISBN: 979-8-3315-9450-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Chenet, Cristiano Pegoraro; Savino, Alessandro; Di Carlo, Stefano (2025)
Zero-Day Hardware-Supported Malware Detection of Stack Buffer Overflow Attacks: An Application Exploiting the CV32e40p RISC-V Core. In: 26th IEEE Latin American Test Symposium, LATS 2025, San Andres Islas, Colombia, 11-14 March 2025, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7763-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Knowledge Valorisation
Technology transfer
- Metodo computerizzato per generare protocolli di coltura per bio-manufacturing. national Patent
Inventors: Roberta Bardini Alfredo Benso Stefano Di Carlo Gianfranco Michele Maria Politano - Metodo di simulazione via computer dell'ontogenesi di un sistema biologico e, opzionalmente, di generazione di un protocollo di coltura". national and international Patent
Inventors: Roberta Bardini Alfredo Benso Stefano Di Carlo Gianfranco Michele Maria Politano