Professor Luca Carloni, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, affiliated with the Electrical Engineering department, has been elected as the 2025 ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing, recognizing their lasting contributions and leadership in research and innovation. The 71 Fellows—representing the top 1% of professionals in the Association for Computing Machinery—will be formally recognized at ACM’s annual Awards Banquet on June 13 in San Francisco, California. This distinction highlights the global impact of their work and their influence on the future of computing.
Carloni is recognized for “contributions to the design of system-on-chip architectures and heterogeneous computing platforms.” His research spans across the scientific fields of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and computer architecture. He has made foundational research contributions to methodologies and tools for System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms, heterogeneous computing, system-level design, networks-on-chip, and embedded systems. His seminal paper, “From Latency-Insensitive Design to Communication-Based System-Level Design” (Proceedings of the IEEE, 2015), links his early theoretical work with later advances in system-level design, highlighting the lasting influence of latency-insensitive design on both academic research and industrial practice.
In recent years, Carloni has been a leading advocate for open-source hardware. He proposed and developed Embedded Scalable Platforms (ESP), an open-source research platform designed to address the growing complexity of designing and programming heterogeneous SoC architectures, and founded OSCAR, a workshop dedicated to open-source computer architecture. His work has been recognized with numerous honors, including the 2025 IEEE/ACM A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation and the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, as well as election as an IEEE Fellow and earlier awards such as the Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
Carloni has been a faculty member at Columbia Engineering since 2004 and chair of the Department of Computer Science since 2021. He leads the System-Level Design Group, currently advising seven PhD students and an associate research scientist. To date, 16 PhD students have completed their doctoral degrees under his mentorship. Beyond academia, his research helps engineers design the computer chips that power modern technology, from personal computing and mobile devices to large-scale artificial intelligence systems, by enabling scalable, energy-efficient solutions to one of engineering’s most complex design challenges.
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