He received the M.S degree in Electronic Engineering, in 2002, and the Ph.D degree in Computer Science, in 2006, from the Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an assistant researcher at the Department of Electronics and Information Technology in the same University. Previously, he was also a consultant engineer in the Low Power Design Group of AST - STMicroelectronics working on network on-chip. His research interests include design methodologies and architectures for embedded systems, focusing on power estimation, on-chip multiprocessors and networks on-chip.