David Atienza Alonso#
| Membership Number: | 7432 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/people?id=169199&op=bio&lang=en&cvlang=en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9536-4947 |
| X: | @David__Atienza |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/david.atienza.94 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-atienza-7bb0852/ |
| Publication Link: | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/esl/publications/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024, 10 Associate Vice President of Research Centers and Computing Platforms, EPFL
- 2021, 11 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EPFL
- 2014, 04 Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EPFL
- 2008, 10 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Electrical Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2006, 10 Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain
- 2005, 09 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computer Engineering, UCM, Spain
- 2001, 09 EU Marie Curie Fellow, IMEC, and Research Assistant, UCM, Spain
- 2000, 10 Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UCM, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) Architectures
- Server architecture
- Hardware-software co-design
- Computer engineering
- Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
- Thermal-Aware Design
- Thermal Management
- Edge AI systems
- Embedded systems
- Internet of Things
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Test-of-Time Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM Hardware-Software Codesign and International System Synthesis Symposium (CODES+ISSS), ESWEEK 2024 Conference for the most influential paper in the last 15 years
- 2023 ACM Fellow for “contributions to the design of high-performance integrated systems and ultra-low power edge circuits and architectures”
- 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award.
- 2020 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Fellow
- 2018 ACM/IEEE/ESDA Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award for “notable impact in the field of design and automation of electronics”
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grantee for “COMPUSAPIEN: Computing Server Architecture with Joint Power and Cooling Integration at the Nanoscale”
- 2015 IEEE Fellow for “contributions to design methods and tools for multiprocessor systems on chip”
- 2013 Recipient of the IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Early Career Award (The first and only time this award has been given to any faculty outside the USA since its creation in 2009)
- 2012 Recipient of the ACM Outstanding New Faculty Award (First time this award was given to any faculty outside the USA since its official creation in 2000)
