EDA Group @ Polito

Amazing times for neuromorphs! 🧠 A further step forward has been taken by NeuroBench, which is now published in Nature Communications!  A new milestone in creating a unified, open-source framework to establish robust benchmarking for neuromorphic computing. Designed with joint efforts from researchers across industry and academia, NeuroBench is a continuously evolving tool.  With version 2.0 we released some weeks ago, we’re taking such efforts even beyond, enhancing the framework to also offer greater customization in tailoring performance evaluations to specific needs, whether they’re prioritizing sparsity, latency, accuracy, or entirely unique criteria relevant to custom neuromorphic systems.  Thanks to all the co-authors and collaborators for their amazing work — especially Jason Yik, Korneel Van den Berghe, Charlotte Frenkel, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vittorio Fra, and Gianvito Urgese. Paper: https://lnkd.in/dWPFPe4G GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dP42AUBP Docs: https://lnkd.in/d7_r8CUx EDA Group @ Polito Politecnico di Torino

📣 Call for Papers: ICT4SmartGrid Workshop at IEEE COMPSAC 2025 Join us for the ICT4SmartGrid workshop at the COMPSAC 2025 conference! The workshop aims to attract practitioners and researchers in all fields of ICT, such as Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Blockchain, applied to the domain of Smart Grids intended as Multi-Energy Systems (MES). MES, whereby electricity, heat, cooling, fuels, transport, and so on optimally interact with each other at various spatiotemporal levels, represent an important opportunity to increase technical, economic, and environmental performance relative to “classical” energy systems whose sectors are treated “separately” or “independently”. This performance improvement can take place at both the operational and the planning stages. While such systems and in particular systems with distributed generation of multiple energy vectors can be a key option to decarbonize the energy sector, the approaches needed to model and relevant tools to analyze them are often of great complexity. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers and novel research contributions in any aspect of Smart Multi-Energy Systems and covering, but not limited, to the topics of interest listed below. In addition to regular papers, we welcome industrial practice reports, especially from industry. Workshop papers due: April 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 8-11, 2025 Location: Toronto, Canada Topics of Interest: - Blockchain for Smart Grids. - Internet-of-Things (IoT) Architectures for Energy Management. - Architectures for Energy Big Data Management. - Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Demand and Load Forecasting. - Novel Models for Renewable Energy Simulation. - Simulations and Co-simulations Techniques. - Simulations under Real-Time Constraints. - Simulations with Hardware-In-the-Loop. - Agent-based Simulations of Smart Grids. - Multi-modelling Simulations of Smart Grid. - Multi-Energy Systems Integration. We welcome original technical papers and contributions related to Smart Multi-Energy Systems. Don't miss this opportunity to share your research! 🔗 For more details, visit: https://lnkd.in/dHxYDAEU

Today, I had the opportunity to present our project COMET at the Workshop on the ICSC - Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in HPC, Big Data e Quantum Computing - Spoke6 "Multiscale Modelling & Engineering Applications" in Pisa, Italy. The transition towards a low-carbon future is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, requiring integrated multi-energy systems (MES) to optimize energy production, distribution, storage, and conversion across different vectors. However, the inherent complexity of MES—spanning technical, economic, regulatory, and societal aspects—makes them difficult to design, analyze, and optimize effectively. 💡 COMET introduces an innovative digital twin co-simulation platform that provides a structured approach to design, develop, and validate novel solutions for MES. By leveraging a multi-perspective and multi-scale approach, COMET enables a virtual representation of real-world energy systems, incorporating aspects such as energy distribution, ICT, financial models, business strategies, and regulations. 🔍 Who can benefit from COMET? ✔ Distribution System Operators (DSOs) – Optimize grid management ✔ Energy Aggregators – Balance loads, optimize savings, and provide ancillary services ✔ Public Administrators & Policymakers – Design data-driven energy transition policies ✔ Energy Managers – Enhance energy efficiency in buildings and districts ✔ Energy Communities – Facilitate peer-to-peer energy sharing and renewable integration By providing a structured, interoperable, and scalable co-simulation framework, COMET aims to accelerate the energy transition, helping stakeholders navigate the evolving energy landscape with confidence. The project is developed in partnership with  ENI, Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano. Excited to continue this journey and collaborate with experts in the field! If you are working on energy transition, digital twins, or multi-energy systems, let’s connect and discuss potential synergies. #EnergyTransition #MultiEnergySystems #DigitalTwin #Simulation #Sustainability #ICSC #COMETProject #SmartGrid #RenewableEnergy #EnergyInnovation

💣 Machine learning models are typically large, making it challenging to run them on power-constrained edge devices. How can this issue be addressed? 💡 Francesco Daghero works on the development of energy efficient solutions for inference at the edge, based, e.g., on quantization and pruning. 👉 Check out his brief video presentation https://lnkd.in/eJTAeevF 🥇 Francesco Daghero, student of the 36th cycle of the PhD Computer and Control Engineering - DAUIN Politecnico di Torino, received the PhD Quality Award 2024. #PhD #DAUIN_PhD #QualityAwards #Research #IoT #edgecomputation #machinelearning #deeplearning #quantization #pruning

Please consider submitting your research work to the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'25). The conference will take place as an in-person event at the University of Iceland, Iceland during August 6-8, 2025. The ISLPED is the premier forum for presentation of innovative research in all aspects of low power electronics and design, ranging from process technologies and analog/digital circuits, simulation and synthesis tools, EDA/CAD, system-level design and optimization, system software and applications, compute-in-memory (CIM), HW and systems for generative AI (LLMs, diffusion models), HW and system security, to cross-layer AI/ML-assisted optimizations. The paper submission deadline is in March 2025. For more details and for the most up to date information, please check the conference website on regular basis: https://lnkd.in/gaMD2CVR. Please feel free to re-post and spread the word among your network! Let's make ISLPED'25 a successful event. 

Great opportunity to mix new #talents and #semiconductors female leaders at Politecnico di Torino, in a GSA Women's Leadership Initiative event. Thanks to Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii and Daniele Jahier Pagliari, and to our speakers: Paola Uggetti (Synopsys Inc), Roberta Priolo (STMicroelectronics), Valentina Marazzi (Marvell Technology), Valentina Rigo (Analog Devices) and Valeria Bottarel (NXP Semiconductors).