Robert Alexander Limas Sierra

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)

robert.limassierra@polito.it

Profile

PhD

Research topic

New techniques for the Reliability Evaluation of AI-oriented Hardware Accelerators

Tutors

Research interests

Computer architectures and Computer aided design

Data science, Computer vision and AI

Parallel and distributed systems, Quantum computing

Biography

Robert Limas Sierra received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC), Colombia, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy. He is also a member of the CAD research group at Politecnico di Torino. His research interests include system functional testing, parallel architectures, GPGPUs, and hardware accelerators. He is an IEEE student member.

Awards and Honors

NA (2025)

Teaching

Teachings

Master of Science

GPU programming. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

Computer sciences. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO (AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Computer sciences. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA DELL'AUTOVEICOLO (AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

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Research

Research groups

CAD - Electronic CAD & Reliability Group (DAUIN)

Publications

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Rodriguez Condia, Josie Esteban; Guerrero-Balaguera, Juan-David; Sierra, Robert Limas; ... (2025)
Investigating and Mitigating Critical Faults in Floating-Point and Posit Arithmetic Hardware. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TOPICS IN COMPUTING, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2168-6750
Contributo su Rivista
Limas Sierra, Robert; Guerrero Balaguera, Juan David; Rodriguez Condia, Josie E.; Sonza ... (2025)
A Structured Method to Generate Self-Test Libraries for Tensor Cores. In: ELECTRONICS, vol. 14. ISSN 2079-9292
Contributo su Rivista
Caro-Anzola, Edward-W.; Esposito, Giuseppe; Guerrero-Balaguera, Juan-David; ... (2025)
IoT and Edge Computing: Applications and Reliability Implications. In: 2025 IEEE 26th Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), San Andres Island (COL), 11-14 March 2025, pp. 1-10. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7763-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Sierra, Robert Limas; Esposito, Giuseppe; Guerrero-Balaguera, Juan-David; Rodriguez ... (2025)
Improving CNN Runtime Robustness Against Soft Errors by Dropout Layer Optimization. In: 2025 IEEE 26th Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), San Andres Islas (COL), 11-14 March 2025, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7763-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Guerrero-Balaguera, Juan-David; Rodriguez condia, Josie Esteban; Sierra, Robert Limas; ... (2025)
About the Functional In-Field Self-Testing of AI Accelerators. In: 2025 IEEE 26th Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), San Andres Island (COL), 11-14 March 2025, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7763-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)