Donatella Sciuto received her Laurea in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1984. She received her Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her MBA from the Scuola di DIrezione Aziendale, Bocconi University, in 1991. Since 2000 she is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests include embedded systems design methodologies and architectures.