Name: Dr. Jonathan Balkind

Affiliation: University of California Santa Barbara, US

Topic: Software-Oriented Acceleration: A Novel Heterogeneous SoC Design Paradigm

Bio: Jonathan Balkind is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, and Operating Systems. Jonathan completed his PhD and MA degrees at Princeton University and his MSci degree at the University of Glasgow. He is the Lead Architect of OpenPiton and its heterogeneous-ISA descendant, BYOC, which are productive, open-source hardware research platforms with thousands of downloads from over 70 countries worldwide. Jonathan was an Open Hardware Trailblazer Fellow and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. Since 2021, he has served as a Director of the FOSSi Foundation.

Name: Jon Michelson

Affiliation: zeroRISC, US

Topic: How We Built The First Commercially Viable Open Source Silicon

Bio: Jon Michelson is VP of Engineering and cofounder of zeroRISC, where he is building transparent, trustworthy security solutions. He has over 28 years of experience leading, verifying, designing, and architecting high performance, low power, secure systems ranging from supercomputers to mobile SoCs at Google, nVidia, Cisco, and SGI. He is a best selling coauthor of “SystemVerilog Testbench Quick Reference,” “The Art of Verification with SystemVerilog Assertions,” and “The Art of Verification with Vera.” He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Name: José Martins

Affiliation: University of Minho, Portugal

Topic: RISC-V Virtualization at the Edge: where we are and where we are going

Bio: José Martins is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the University of Minho, Portugal. José holds a Master’s in Electronics and Computer Engineering. José has a significant background in operating systems and computer architecture for embedded systems. Over the last few years, he has also been involved in projects in the aerospace, automotive, and video industries. José’s Ph.D. focuses on virtualization for mixed-criticality systems. He is the main author of the open-source Bao hypervisor.

Name: Rafail Psiakis

Affiliation: Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Topic: Designing open-source RISC-V based Secure and Safe Flight Computers

Bio: Rafail Psiakis holds a Ph.D. degree from University of Rennes, France, obtained in 2018, while working with CAIRN laboratory in Inria Rennes. He holds a M.S. & Bachelor joint diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Patras, Greece, obtained in 2015.Currently he is a Lead Silicon Security Researcher at Secure Systems Reasearch Center of Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research interests include embedded systems, security, confidential computing, computer architecture, RISC-V, fault tolerance.

Name: John East

Affiliation: SPARK Microsystems

Topic: How we got here

Bio: John East was the CEO of Actel – A Silicon Valley semiconductor company -- for 22 years. He led the company from its start-up phase through a successful IPO and finally into a merger with what would later become MicroChip Technology. He currently serves on the boards of directors of SPARK Microsystems – a Quebec-based start-up involved in developing high speed, low power radios — and Cycuity — a Silicon Valley start-up involved in hardware security. He is presently an advisor to Silicon Catalyst — a Silicon Valley based incubator. He recently authored the book “Silicon Valley the Way I Saw It”. Mr. East holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Name: Christian Pilato

Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Topic: Enhancing hardware security and trust with high-level design methods

Bio: Christian Pilato is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University and University of Lugano, and a Visiting Researcher at New York University, TU Delft, and Chalmers University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano in Information Technology (2011). His research focuses on memory and security aspects of heterogeneous architectures. Currently, he is the Scientific Coordinator of the H2020 EVEREST project. He served as program chair for EUC 2014, ICCD 2022, SAMOS XXIII, and ICCD 2023. Currently, he is the program chair of SAMOS XXIV and the general chair of ICCD 2024. He is an Associated Editor for IEEE TCAD. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and a Member of HiPEAC.

Name: Ryan Scott

Affiliation: Galois, Inc

Topic: Copilot: Assured Runtime Verification for Embedded Systems and Hardware

Bio: Ryan joined Galois in 2020 as a research engineer after working as an intern in 2017. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Indiana University, where he studied the intersection of programming languages and deterministic execution. He is a frequent collaborator to open source projects such as the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

Name: Ryan Kastner

Affiliation: UCSD

Topic: Open Silicon Security

Bio: Ryan Kastner is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA, a Master’s degree (MS) in engineering, and Bachelor’s degrees (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, all from Northwestern University. He leads the Kastner Research Group whose current research interests fall into three areas: hardware acceleration, hardware security, and remote sensing. He is the co-director of the Wireless Embedded Systems Master of Advanced Studies Program. He also co-directs the Engineers for Exploration Program.