Pierluigi Nuzzo is the Kenneth C. Dahlberg Chair and an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, where he co-directs the Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), in 2015, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. He also held research positions at the University of Pisa and IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, working on mixed-signal integrated circuit design.
His interests revolve around methodologies and tools for high-assurance design of cyber-physical systems and systems-on-chip, including computer-aided design, verification, and validation methods for safe and dependable autonomous systems, formal foundations, analysis, and design methods for secure and trustworthy hardware platforms, and the application of formal methods and optimization theory to problems in embedded and cyber-physical systems, electronic design automation, security, and artificial intelligence. His awards include the Okawa Research Grant, the Early-Career Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the UC Berkeley EECS David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, and several best paper and design competition awards.