Laura Pozzi (M’01) received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2000.

She is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, a Research Engineer with STMicroelectronics, San Diego, CA, USA, and an Industrial Visitor with University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA. Her current research interests include automating embedded processor customization, high performance compiler techniques, innovative reconfigurable fabrics, and design space exploration.

Prof. Pozzi was a recipient of the Best Paper Award in the embedded systems category at DAC in 2003. She has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design and the IEEE Design and Test, and is or has been in the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences in the areas of compilers and architectures for embedded systems.