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Danilo Pietro Pau Top-Executive

I am since 34 years in STMicroelectronics and in System R&D. My (source GoogleScholar) h-index is 31, i10-index 99, being listed #292 top Italian scientists. With 111 invention’s , 74 Espacenet, 136 USPTOs applications , 255 scientific publications, 113 (2012-2015) ISO/IEC/MPEG documents and had 163 invited talks key notes/seminars/tutorials at Universities/Conferences. I graduated on Electronic Engineering in 1992 at Politecnico di Milano, had 1y internship, 1y contract in SGS-THOMSON/CASA on 50% memory reduced HD-MAC HW video decoder. I have a background on MPEG2 video memory reduction (SD/HD), video (up to H.264) encoding, transcoding, OpenVG/OpenGL-ES since Khronos started; I co-chaired ISO/IEC SC29-WG11 CDVS for 3 years and started CDVA , computer vision (SLAM,SfM) and tiny AI since 2016. through the releases of the ST Unified AI Core Technology, part of STM32Cube.AI Studio, Stellar-Studio, SPC-Studio.AI, MEMs Studio, STM32 Developer Cloud. On 2019 I was elevated IEEE Fellow; on 2022 AAIA Fellow, APSIPA life member since 2020, Sigma Xi honor society invited member since 2024; National Academy of Artificial Intelligence invited member since 2025. I served as IEEE Italy Industry Ambassador and IEEE R8 S EU AfI internship initiative, was vice-chair “Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems” Task Force IEEE CIS, AE IEEE TNNLS, Member of the IEEE CTSoc MDAI, 2023 IEEE CS Fellow EVM. I curated the IEEE Milestone on Multiple Silicon Technologies on a chip, 1985 ratified by IEEE/2021, and IEEE Milestone on MPEG Multimedia Integrated Circuits, 1984-1993, ratified IEEE/2022, Integrated Circuits for Satellite Digital Radio, 1996-1997, ratified IEEE/2024. I serve TinyML (now EdgeAI) Foundation (Symposium, Summit, EMEA), chair of the TinyML on Device Learning, co-funded AutoTinyML, co-chair TinyML Talks, chair Gen EDGEAI WGs. I was co chair of EdgeAI Research track at EdgeAI Austin 2025. Coordinated contributions to MPAI/NWW. I was awarded with my team "Finmeccanica Innovation Award 2004 Embedded 3D graphics", STAR Gold award 2014 for high performing Technical Staff (which I co-funded), best demo award with Politecnico di Milano on MPEG Visual Search, on 2014, STAR Silver award on 2019 STM32Cube.AI, 2020 Spring APSIPA Industrial Distinguished Leaders Award, STAR Innovation Award on 2023. I was awarded as Distinguished Speaker, and Distinguished AI Scholar on 2025 by NAAI, 2025 Industry Lecturer IEEE Italy. I supervise students and PhDs. I am certified Full Professor ASN2025 09/E3 Electrical and Electronic engineering and Measurements by Ministry Research IT

Headquarters: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy
Headline: Technical director IEEE, AAIA, ST Fellow Full professor ASN09/E3 Italy IEEE Distinguished Industry Lecturer Scientific Committee 2026-2028 IEEE SPS Italy Global Governance and AI Safety NAAI Committee APSIPA Life Member
Followers: 8391
Connections: 6885
Company: STMicroelectronics
Company Website: http://www.st.com
Skills: H.264, Computer Vision, System Architecture, GPU, Video Coding, Transcoding, Optical Flow, Visual Search, Medical Imaging, Structure From Motion, Conmpact Descriptors, Video Decoding, 3D Graphics decompression, Video Memory Compression Reduction, Volume segmentation, Deformable models, Volume Rendering, Category Object Detection, Artificial Neural Network, Cyber Physical Systems, Convolutional Neural Networks, Algorithms, ARM, ASIC, Algoritmi
Experience: Title: Members of the Scientific Committee for the term 2026-2027 IEEE SPS Italy Chapter Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Start: Mar 2026 End: Present Title: Technical Director, IEEE, AAIA and ST Fellow Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Dec 2019 End: Present Title: Industry Liaison for ML, DL and AI in CE (MDA) Technical Committee IEEE CESoc Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Start: Jul 2020 End: Present Title: 2023-4 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee Member Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Start: Jan 2023 End: Dec 2023 Title: IEEE R8 Action for Industry committee member, responsible internship initiative for the year 2021 Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Start: Dec 2020 End: Feb 2022 Title: IEEE and ST Fellow Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Jan 2019 End: Nov 2021 Title: 2019 IEEE Region 8 Action for Industry Committee member Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Jan 2019 End: Nov 2021 Title: Task force vice chair Intelligent Embedded/Cyber-Physical Systems IEEE CIS Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Italia Start: Apr 2017 End: Nov 2021 Title: Member of Industry Relation Commission and Industry Ambassador @ IEEE Italy Section Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Italy Start: Jan 2016 End: Nov 2021 Title: IEEE Industry Ambassador Europe South Area, Region 8 Action for Industry committee Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Italia Start: Jan 2018 End: Dec 2018 Title: Senior Principal Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff. Embedded Analytics Research Platform Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Feb 2016 End: Apr 2018 Title: Senior Principal Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff, IEEE Senior Member Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Italy Start: Jul 2013 End: Jan 2016 Title: Chairman of STMicroelectronics Italian Technical Staff Community Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Jun 2012 End: May 2015 Title: Senior Principal Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff, IEEE Senior Member Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Jul 2011 End: Jul 2014 Title: Senior Principal Engineer - Senior Member of Technical Staff - Graphics 4 Embedded Systems Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza (Italy), Bristol (UK), Shanghai (China) Start: Oct 2009 End: Jun 2013 Title: R&D Team Manager Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza (Italy), Bristol (UK), Shanghai (China) Start: Jan 2001 End: Oct 2009 Title: Graphics 4 Embedded System Team Manager Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza Start: Jan 2002 End: Dec 2008 Title: System Engineer Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza - Italy Start: Dec 1994 End: Dec 2000 Title: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Leaning Systems Company: IEEE Location: Milan, Lombardy, Italy Start: Nov 2021 End: Jul 2022 Title: Contractor hw design @ Corporate Advanced System Architectures Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza, Lombardy, Italy Start: Dec 1992 End: Nov 1993 Title: Internship @ Corporate Advanced System Architectures Company: STMicroelectronics Italia Location: Agrate Brianza - Italy Start: Dec 1991 End: Nov 1992
Education: School: Politecnico di Milano Degree: Electronic Engineer Field: Microelectronics, Optoelectronics, Instrumentation Period: 1985 - 1992
Publications: Citations (Google Scholar · Sep 4, 2017) A Run-Time System for Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs: The case of STMicroelectronics SPEAr board (ParaFPGA2015, Parallel Computing with FPGAs: a mini-symposium in conjunction with ParCo2015, Edinburgh, UK · Sep 2, 2015) FASTER: Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration (Microprocessor and Microsystems, Embedded Hardware Design Journal (MICPRO), Elsevier, ISSN 0141-9331 · Nov 6, 2014) Effective Reconfigurable Design: the FASTER Approach (International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) · Apr 14, 2014)
Awards: Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) | National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) | Apr 2025 Listed as Top Italian Scientists | TIS @ https://www.topitalianscientists.org/tis/54390/Danilo_Pau_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Computer_Sciences | Feb 2025 AAIA Fellow | The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) | Jun 2023 2016 STAR Bronze Award : Technical Staff Italy: Open Innovation Seed - People and Sustainability | STMicroelectronics | Dec 2016 IEEE Region 8 Certificate of Appreciation | IEEE Region 8 | Nov 2016 Member of Sigma Xi Honor Society | www.sigmaxi.org |
Country: Italy