Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the  Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Prof. De Micheli is the Scientific Director of the EcoCloud center at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Director of the EPFL LSI Laboratory, Director of EPFL Electrical Engineering Institute at EPFL and program leader of the Swiss Federal  Nano-Tera.ch program. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).

 Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS and IEEE, a member of the Academia Europaea, of the  Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and International Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of ten other books and of over 1000 technical publications. His citation h-index is above 100 according to Google Scholar. He is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of STMicroelectronics. 

 Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Gustav Kirchhoff Award, the 2022 ESDA-IEEE/CEDA Phil Kaufman Award, the 2019 ACM/SIGDA  Pioneering Achievement Award, and several other  awards.