Paolo is a Distinguished Technologist in the Exascale Computing Lab at HP Labs. His research interests skirt the boundary of hardware and software, including highly-parallel systems, VLIW architectures, compilers and embedded systems.
Paolo currrently leads a group of researchers in Barcelona (Spain) whose research focus is on system-level modeling and simulation. He and his team are working on a simulation platform (called COTSon) whose goal is to model large-scale computing systems of thousands of multi-/many-core processors and their interconnection network.
In 2003 he started the Barcelona Research Office (BRO), a satellite HP Labs organization to expand HPL’s research presence in continental Europe. Initially, the BRO team looked at the computing aspects of content-processing applications, and developed the large-scale content processing system (Chronos) used to recapture 80 years of TIME magazines whose result is now available in the Time Archive.
From 1995 to 2002 he was the technical lead of the “Custom-Fit Processors” Project at HP Labs Cambridge. In that role, he was the principal architect of the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the Lx/ST200 family of VLIW embedded processor cores (developed as a partnership between HP Labs and STMicroelectronics). He supervised the design of the prototype compiler and simulator, the interface with the microarchitecture team, the application tuning activities, and the technology transfers. The ST200 family is used today in a variety of audio, video and imaging consumer products, including HP's multifunction printing/scanning devices. As of the 2009 article in the "IEEE Solid State Circuit Magazine", STMicroelectronics has shipped over 40 million systems-on-chip for digital video containing one or more VLIW processor core from the ST200 family.
Paolo is an active member of the computer architecture community, and regularly serves in program and organization committees. He was recently Program Chair for MICRO41 (2008) and in the past for MICRO34 (2001). He also was General Chair for MICRO38 (2005), Progam Chair for CASES'03 and General Chair for CASES’05. He is a co-inventor in 11 patents and several others patent applications. He is a co-author (with Josh Fisher and Cliff Young) of the book “Embedded Computing: a VLIW approach to architecture, compiler end tools”). Paolo also serves in the industrial advisory board of the HiPEAC european network of excellence.
Before joining HP in 1994, Paolo received a Ph.D (Dottorato) in EECS in 1993 and an M.S. (Laurea) in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the University of Genoa (Italy).
