Gianluca TEMPESTI
		Research Projects

		Current
2003-Now		Architectures and design methodologies for bio-inspired computing machines  Role: Project leader Head of the Cellular Architectures Research Group (CARG)  Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation subsidy  Collaboration with: STMicroelectronics, Milan, Italy Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy University of York, York, UK
1994-2004		Embryonics (embryonic electronics)  Role: Direction of research group (since 2002)  Funding: Co-applicant (with Prof. D. Mange) for Swiss National Science Foundation subsidies  Responsible for collaboration with: University of York, York, England University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland Daimler-Chrysler, Dresden, Germany

		Past
2001-Now		Reconfigurable POEtic Machines  Role: Work-package leader  Funding: European Community project, Information Society Technologies (IST) program  Collaboration with: University of York, York, England Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
2000-2002		Development of the BioWall reconfigurable computing tissue  Role: Participant, with D. Mange, A. Stauffer, C. Teuscher, F. Vannel, Y. Thoma  Funding: Villa Reuge Foundation, Switzerland  Collaboration with: Villa Reuge Museum, Ste-Croix, Switzerland
1998-2001		Development of a repairable field-programmable gate array  Role: Main scientist  Funding: Japanese MITI project, Real-World Computing Partnership initiative  Responsible for collaboration with: NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Tsukuba, Japan
1998-1999		Processor architectures inspired by biology  Role: Main scientist  Funding: Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy  Collaboration with: University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy