Professional activities
Principal scientific responsibilities
Joint Head of Electronics group (25 Profs. and Assoc. Profs.) at Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology
Advisor for 11 postdoctoral fellowships, 33 PhDs (1 recipient of Best Centrale Innovation Thesis Award), 21 MSc internships. PhD graduates now at Beijing University (CN), EPFL (CH), University of Utah (USA), Nanyang Technological University (SG), GCI Science & Technology (CN), IBM Research (USA), ID Quantique (CH), CEA-LETI (FR), Corning Optical Communications (PL), Dolphin Integration (FR), Groupe SEB (FR), Mentor Graphics (FR), Schlumberger (FR), STMicroelectronics (FR), Synopsys (USA), startups: Changsha Funeng Biotechnology (CN), eVaderis (FR), Luceda (BE), Tiino Techmation (IN)
Workpackage leader for 3 regional projects, 9 national projects, 7 European projects
Scientific coordinator for 3 regional projects, 5 national projects, 3 international projects
General Chair of 4 international conference, Program chair of 5 international conferences, Topic chair of 7 international conferences (multiple editions), Finance chair of 1 international conference, Executive Committee member and Special Day chair of 1 international conference, regular Technical Program Committee member of 9 international conferences, Co-founder and Program Chair of 1 Winter School
Member of French SoC2 Research Network steering committee: Heterogeneous Systems co-Chair (2007-2012) , vice-director since 2012, director since 2018
Expert with HCERES (French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education) – evaluation committee member for LIEN (2008), GREEN (2008), IJL (2016), EpOC (2017), IEMN (2019), ESYCOM (2019) research laboratories, evaluation committee member for 1 Masters program (2010)
Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada in December 2005, January 2008. Adjunct Professor at same institution since November 2008
IEEE Senior Member, Vice-President IEEE Council for Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) (VP Initiatives 2020-2023, VP Technical Activities 2024-2025), member of IET, ACM/SIGDA, Club EEA
Regular reviewer for several journals (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer)
Reviewer of several national (ANR), industrial (BPI) and international (ISF, SNSF) projects
Member of ANR Scientific Evaluation Committee on Micronanoelectronics for data processing (2014, 2015 (vice-president), 2018), ANR DeepGreen Deployment of embedded AI solutions on specific hardware targets (2022). Proposal Evaluator for H2020-FETOPEN, H2020-ERC, Horizon Europe-EIC Pathfinder 2021-2023, Horizon Europe-Digital Emerging 2021-2023, Horizon Europe-REA MSCA Engineering 2022-2023, ESF (2018-2023). Member of intermediate and final ANR project review boards (2015, 2016)
Member of review boards for 4 EU-funded projects (H2020-ICT TOP-HIT, CONNECT, TERIPHIC, H2020-ERC SPICE) – annual progress reviews (2015-2023); and for 1 Ifremer-funded project (POPSTAR, 2016-2018)
Expert with the French Observatory of Micro-Nanotechnologies (OMNT) 2005-2017 (Nanodevices, Nanoelectronics groups, New computing paradigms and Neuromorphic Computing focus groups)
Expert with Collège Numérique France 2030 2023-
Nanotechnology Workshop Chairman for Disruptive Technologies Day (French CNRS-INSIS / French Aerospace Industry Group), 2016
Member of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) WG10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems) since 2009
Member of International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) IFT Systems and Architectures since 2022
Member of the Main Board of the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) since 2021, Chair of EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024)
Member of Hardware technologies and devices working group for ALLISTENE (Alliance for digital science and technology) 2010-2017
Member, Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) Grenoble Alpes – Scientific Board, 2021-
Member of steering committee for French national Priority Research and Equipment Program on Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Member of steering committee for "Devices, Systems, Computing and Software" track in Rhône-Alpes Region ARC (Academic Research Community) "Information and Communication Technology" 2012-2017
Elected member of French National Universities Council, section 63 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Photonics and Systems (2015-2019)
External reviewer for 84 PhD theses (9 international) and chairman for 35 PhD thesis defenses, external reviewer for 17 professorial dissertations and chairman for 3 professorial dissertation defenses
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (2015-2018), IET Computers and Digital Techniques (2019-2022), IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2022-2025)
External member of faculty recruitment boards for 5 Full Professor positions, 5 Associate Professor positions
Recipient of National Scientific Excellence / Research Award (6 consecutive 4-year awards), 2001-2025
Recipient of IEEE TTTC (Test Technology Technical Council) Outstanding Service Award 2023
Recipient of IEEE CEDA (Council for Electronic Design Automation) Outstanding Service Recognition Award 2024