Andy Pimentel is associate professor in the
Computer Systems
Architecture group of the Informatics Institute. He holds
the MSc ('93) and PhD ('98) degrees in computer science, both from the
University
of Amsterdam. He is co-founder of the
International Symposium on embedded computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling,
and Simulation (SAMOS) and is member of the
European Network
of Excellence on High-Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation
(HiPEAC). His research focus is on the study and development of efficient and
effective methods, techniques and tools that aid computer designers in the
design process, especially during the early stages of design. In more general
terms, his research interests include computer architecture,
computer architecture modeling and
simulation, system-level design,
design space exploration, performance and power
analysis, embedded systems, and
parallel and reconfigurable computing
He leads a number of projects in the area of system-level MultiProcessor
System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) design. At this moment, one of his key projects is
Daedalus, which is a joint effort together with Leiden University. The
Daedalus MP-SoC design flow is the product of a decade of system-level
design research, providing a fully integrated tool-flow in which design
space exploration, system-level synthesis, application mapping, and system
prototyping of MP-SoC architectures are highly automated. Besides being
Daedalus' project leader, Andy is also in charge of the development of the
SESAME framework (Simulation of Embedded System Architectures for Multi-level Exploration) within
Daedalus.
He is associate editor of Elsevier's Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory and Springer's Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He has also been guest associate editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (2009 and 2010) and Journal of Systems Architecture (2007 and 2008).
Moreover, Andy Pimentel serves on the organizational committees for many leading (embedded systems) design conferences and workshops, such as DATE (PC Chair of the MPSoC and System Design Methods track), IEEE ICCD (PC Co-chair of the EDA track), ACM/IEEE CODES+ISSS (PC member), FPL (Local Organization Chair in '07, PC member), SAMOS (Co-founder, SC member, General Chair in '05, PC Chair in '04), and IEEE ESTIMedia (PC Chair in '08 and '09, General Chair in '10).
He is Senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE Computer Society, and member of IFIP WG 10.3.