David Atienza Alonso
Full Professor
Leads the Embedded Systems Laboratory, designing edge AI computing architectures, smart wearables for health and thermal management of multi-processor systems-on-chip.
David Atienza Alonso's lab at EPFL works on accelerators, chips & architecture and distributed, cloud & edge systems. 154 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly DAC and ICCAD. 21 PhD students. 39 alumni, most often to IBM and Cisco Systems. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 40/ year
- at T1 venues
- 5%
- PhD students
- 21
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 39
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 31 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 44 papers2025 · T1 4
- 45 papers2024 · T1 1
- 34 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: DAC, ICCAD, ICML, ICRA, IFAC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems34 papers
- Accelerators, chips & architecture11 papers
- wearables4 papers
- embedded systems1 paper
- systems laboratory0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202631 papers
- IEEE Design & Test3-D Ferroelectric NAND In-Storage Processing Architecture for Mass Spectrometry (opens in a new tab)
- DATE3D-ICE 4.0: Accurate and efficient thermal modeling for 2.5D/3D heterogeneous chiplet systems
- Communications MedicineA meta-learning method with reduced data requirements for training and updating deep learning models on wearable devices
- JMIR Research ProtocolsAcoustic Emission Biomarkers for the Detection and Monitoring of Early Knee Osteoarthritis: Protocol for a Prospective, Single-Center, Exploratory Study (opens in a new tab)
- BioMedical Engineering OnLineAcoustic emissions and kinetic instability as biomarkers to detect osteoarthritic changes of knee joint according to MRI (opens in a new tab)
- Nuclear FusionAdvances in 3D transient plasma dynamics and control through MHD and hybrid fluid-kinetic simulations with JOREK (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and SystemsAn MLIR-Based Compilation Framework for Control Flow Management on Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express BriefsANT-V: A Monolithic RISC-V Vector Processor for Machine Learning at the Edge (opens in a new tab)
- ISLPED ’26: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and DesignApplication-Driven System Technology Co-Optimization for 2.5D Edge AI Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of HydrologyAquaCast: Urban water dynamics forecasting with precipitation-informed multi-input transformer (opens in a new tab)
- CCGridWArtifact Appendix for Cloudformer: an Attention-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds With Unknown Workload (opens in a new tab)
- PASCastroCAMP: A Community Benchmark and Co-Design Framework for Sustainable SKA-Scale Radio Imaging (opens in a new tab)
202544 papers
- IEEE Design & TestA 20-Year Retrospective on Power and Thermal Modeling and Management
- Workshop on Open-Source HardwareA flexible framework for early power and timing comparison of time-multiplexed CGRA kernel executions (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on AgriFood ElectronicsA Hybrid Ble-lf Tag for Extended-range Cattle Rfid (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and SystemsA Reconfigurable High Dynamic Range Delta-Sigma Front End with Event-Based Decimation for Bandwidth-EfficientImplantable Neural Interfaces
- ISCASA Reconfigurable High-Dynamic Range ∆Σ Front-End with Event-Based Decimation for Bandwidth-Efficient Implantable Neural Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- The International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable ComputingAn MLIR-based Compilation Framework for CGRA Application Deployment
- DAC (T1)ARCANE: Adaptive RISC-V Cache Architecture for Near-memory Extensions (opens in a new tab)
- Additive ManufacturingAutonomous exploration of the PBF-LB parameter space: An uncertainty-driven algorithm for automated processing map generation (opens in a new tab)
- EMBCBenchmark of EEG-based seizure detection algorithms with SzCORE (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsCiMBA: Accelerating Genome Sequencing through On-Device Basecalling via Compute-in-Memory (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health InformaticsCough-E: A multimodal, privacy-preserving cough detection algorithm for the edge (opens in a new tab)
- EpilepsiaDeep learning–based detection of generalized convulsive seizures using a wrist‐worn accelerometer (opens in a new tab)
202445 papers
- IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research ConferenceA GRANDAB Decoder with 8.48 Gbps Worst-Case Throughput in 65nm CMOS (opens in a new tab)
- PARMA-DITAMAccelerator-driven Data Arrangement to Minimize Transformers Run-time on Multi-core Architectures (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsACE: Automated optimization towards iterative Classification in Edge health monitors (opens in a new tab)
- —Acoustical Features as Knee Health Biomarkers: A Critical Analysis
- Current Opinion in NeurologyAmbulatory seizure detection (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) SystemsAn Energy Efficient Soft SIMD Microarchitecture and Its Application on Quantized CNNs (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsAn Evaluation Framework for Dynamic Thermal Management Strategies in 3D MultiProcessor System-on-Chip Co-Design
- SMARTHEP Edge Machine Learning SchoolAn Open-Source and Configurable RISC-V CPU/GPU Accelerated Processing Unit for Ultra-Low-Power Wearable Devices (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and SystemsBank on Compute-near-Memory: Design Space Exploration of Processing-near-Bank Architectures (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Design & TestBiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingCloudProphet: A Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds
- Artificial Intelligence In MedicineCombining general and personal models for epilepsy detection with hyperdimensional computing (opens in a new tab)
202334 papers
- VLSI-SoCA 16-bit Floating-Point Near-SRAM Architecture for Low-power Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (opens in a new tab)
- EMBCA Multimodal Dataset for Automatic Edge-AI Cough Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Methods and Programs in BiomedicineA semi-supervised algorithm for improving the consistency of crowdsourced datasets: The COVID-19 case study on respiratory disorder classification (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on ComputersAcceleration of Control Intensive Applications on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays for Embedded Systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and SystemsAn Error-Based Approximation Sensing Circuit for Event-Triggered Low-Power Wearable Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- CF23-OSHW: Computing Frontiers Workshop on Open-Source HardwareAn Open-Hardware Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array for Edge Computing (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in ComputingBit-Line Computing for CNN Accelerators Co-Design in Edge AI Inference (opens in a new tab)
- EcoCloud Annual Event on IT SustainabilityCodesign Strategies for Energy-Efficient Exascale Computing for SKA Observatory
- DATECross Layer Design for the Predictive Assessment of Technology-Enabled Architectures (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingDecentralized Federated Learning for Epileptic Seizures Detection in Low-Power Wearable Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Sustainable Computing-Informatics & SystemsDynamic power budget redistribution under a power cap on multi-application environments (opens in a new tab)
- VLSI-SoCDynamic Scheduling for Event-Driven Embedded Industrial Applications (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went39 listed, 45% to industry
Industry 5Academia 6
Most often to
- IBM
- Cisco Systems
- Huawei
Also to
- Complutense University of Madrid
- ETH Zurich
- Federal University of Minas Gerais
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