Team Leads
Professor Massimo Alioto (Director)
Massimo Alioto received the MSc degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy) in 1997 and 2001. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group, and is the Director of the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area. Previously, he held positions at the University of Siena, Intel Labs – CRL (2013), University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2011-2012), BWRC – University of California, Berkeley (2009-2011), and EPFL (Switzerland, 2007).
He has authored or co-authored more than 330 publications on journals and conference proceedings. He is author of four books, including the popular Enabling the Internet of Things – from Circuits to Systems (Springer, 2017), and the latest on Adaptive Digital Circuits for Power-Performance Range beyond Wide Voltage Scaling (Springer, 2020). His primary research interests include self-powered wireless integrated systems, green computing, widely energy-scalable integrated systems, data-driven machine intelligence, hardware security and emerging technologies, among the others.
He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (2019-2022), and was the Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2018). He is/was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2020-2021), and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2022-2023, 2009-2010), for which he is/was also member of the Board of Governors (2015-2020), and Chair of the “VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee (2010-2012). He served as Guest Editor of several IEEE journal special issues, and Associate Editor of a number of IEEE and ACM journals. He is/was Technical Program Chair and Track Chair in a number of IEEE conferences (e.g., ISCAS 2023, SOCC, ICECS), and is currently in the IEEE “Digital architectures and systems” ISSCC subcommittee, and the ASSCC TPC. Prof. Alioto is an IEEE Fellow.
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Professor Heng Chun Huat (Associate Director)
Chun-Huat Heng (S’96–M’04–SM’13) received the B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from the National University of Singapore in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph. D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2003. He has been working on CMOS integrated circuits involving synthesizer, delay-locked loop, and transceiver circuits.
From 2001 to 2004, he was with Wireless Interface Technologies, which was later acquired by Chrontel. Since 2004, he has been with the National University of Singapore where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has received NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2008, 2011 and 2013, and was in ATEA Honor Roll in 2014. He has also won Faculty Innovative Teaching Award in 2009 and 2020. He has won 2018 and 2020 IES Prestigious Engineering Award. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II, and has served as Technical Program Committee member for International Solid-State Circuits Conference and Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI, and also as Technical Program Committee member for VLSI Symposium on Circuits and IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium.
Professor Li Haizhou (Principal Investigator)
Haizhou Li received the B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 1984, 1987, and 1990 respectively.
He is now a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Dr. Li’s research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, and neuromorphic computing.
He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2015-2018), Associate Editor (2012-2013) of ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Computer Speech and Language (2012-2017), Springer International Journal of Social Robotics (2008-2016), and a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2013-2015). He was the President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA, 2015-2016), the President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society (COLIPS, 2015-2019), the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2017-2018). Dr. Li served as the General Chair of ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, ASRU 2019, the Local Arrangement Chair of SIGIR 2008 and ACL-IJCNLP 2009, and the Technical Program Chair of ISCSLP 1998, APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2010, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2014, and IEEE ChinaSIP 2015.
Professor Trevor Carlson (Principal Investigator)
Trevor E. Carlson is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) with more than a decade of computer systems and architecture experience in both industry and academia. During his PhD, in collaboration with the Intel ExaScience Lab, he co-developed the Sniper Multi-core Simulator which is being used by hundreds of researchers to evaluate the performance and power-efficiency of next generation systems. His recent research includes efficient AI acceleration, secure systems and efficient general-purpose processing. His work has received six Best Paper or Best Paper Nominations in conferences such as the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) and the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS).Read more about Professor Trevor Carlson
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AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is Singapore’s lead public sector R&D agency. As a Science and Technology Organisation, A*STAR bridges the gap between academia and industry. A*STAR plays a key role in nurturing scientific talent and leaders for the wider research community and industry. A*STAR’s R&D activities span biomedical sciences to physical sciences and engineering, with research entities primarily located in Biopolis and Fusionopolis.