Michelangelo Barocci

Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi , 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

michelangelo.barocci@polito.it

Profile

PhD

Research topic

Design of digital/neuromorphic computing systems and SDK

Tutors

Research presentation

Poster

Research interests

Computer architectures and Computer aided design

Data science, Computer vision and AI

Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing

Biography

I obtained my Master's degree in Electronics engineering - micro & nanosystems at Politecnico di Torino in 2021. After two years working in a company, I joined the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) group as a PhD student at the Computer and Control Engineering Department in 2023, working on neuromorphic systems and architectures under the supervision of Prof. Enrico Macii and Gianvito Urgese. This PhD research funded by the EBRAINS-Italy project focuses on the development of tools aimed at accelerating the engineering process behind the simulation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) on dedicated platforms. In particular, use cases from real-time IoT and biomedical applications will be addressed. The main activities revolve around the creation and definition of FPGA-synthesizable heterogeneous SoC architectures that employ dedicated data transfer protocols between the main processing units, open-source RISC-V based processors or ARM-based Processing Systems, and neuromorphic accelerators, with the goal of creating an efficient communication to improve the interoperability. The final goal will be to develop a neuromorphic platform aimed at automating the modelling and the design of AI applications through the creation of highly reconfigurable heterogeneous digital and neuromorphic SoCs: starting from the definition of the use case up to the FPGA implementation.

Teaching

Teachings

Master of Science

Specification and simulation of digital systems. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Specification and simulation of digital systems. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

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Research

Research groups

EDA - Electronic Design Automation (DAUIN)

Publications

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Barocci, Michelangelo; Fra, Vittorio; Macii, Enrico; Urgese, Gianvito (In stampa)
Heterogeneous SoC integrating an open-source recurrent SNN accelerator for neuromorphic edge computing on FPGA. In: ECML PKDD 2024 - "Deep Learning meets Neuromorphic Hardware" workshop, Vilnius (Lituania), 09/09/2024 - 14/09/2024. ISSN 1865-0929
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Barocci, Michelangelo (2023)
Hybrid digital-neuromorphic architecture integration for low-power applications. In: Forum on specification & Design Languages, Torino, September 13-15, 2023
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Barocci, Michelangelo; Fra, Vittorio; Macii, Enrico; Urgese, Gianvito (2023)
Review of open neuromorphic architectures and a first integration in the RISC-V PULP platform. In: 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-2023), Singapore, December 18-21, 2023, pp. 470-477. ISBN: 979-8-3503-9361-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)