Ian O'Connor

Biography

Ian O’Connor (S'95–M'98–SM'07) is currently a Professor in heterogeneous and nanoelectronics systems design with the Department of Electronic, Electrical, and Control Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Écully, France. He is currently a Head of the Heterogeneous Systems Design Group, Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, Lyon, and the Director of the SOC2 research network. Since 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. He authored or co-authored more than 200 book chapters, journal publications, conference papers, and patents, has held various positions of responsibility in the organization of several international conferences and has been a Work Package Leader or a Scientific Coordinator for several national and European projects. He also serves as an expert with the French Observatory for Micro and Nano Technologies, International Federation for Information Processing WG10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems), and ALLISTENE (alliance for digital science and technology). His research interests include novel computing and interconnect architectures based on emerging technologies, associated with methods for design exploration.