Résumé of Paolo Montuschi
(most recent update: May 2014)
Professional Contact Information
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (Control and Computer Engineering Department)
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino, Italy
Phone: +39 011 564 7014
Fax: +39 011 564 7099
Email: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.swas.polito.it/rubrica/scheda_pers.asp?matricola=001780
http://staff.polito.it/paolo.montuschi
Service and Position within Current Employment
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January 2011-present: Deputy Chair of the Control and Computer Engineering Department (DAUINDipartimento di Automatica e Informatica);
October 2003-December 2011: Chair of the Control and Computer Engineering Department (DAUINDipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) (two terms);
October 2007-2013: Elected member of the Board of Governors;
October 2007-2013: Chair of the Board for Financial External Affairs;
October 2007-2013: Member of the Board for Building and Maintenance Planning;
October 2007-2013: Member of the Board for Spinoff and Patents;
October 2007-2011: Elected Member of the Council of the Board of Department Chairs;
2007-present: Member of the Advisory and Scientific Board of PhD Programs;
2005, 2001-2003, 1995-1997: Deputy Chair of the Computing Facilities Department (Ce.S.I.T);
October 2003-2011: Member of the Board of the Department Chairs;
October 2003-2009: Member of the Board of Management of CESAL (a Section of Politecnico di Torino at
Alessandria, Italy);
2003-present, 1992-1994: Member of the Board for PhD in Computer Engineering and Automatic Control;
2002-present: Representative for Politecnico di Torino in the Association of Italian Computer Engineers
(GII);
2001-2003: Deputy of the Dean of the Regional School for Specialization of College Professors (SIS
Piedmont);
2000-present: Member of several other ad hoc Committees.
2001-2012, 1995-1999: Member of the Governing Board of the Engineering School of Information
Technologies;
1998-2003: Deputy of the Dean of the Engineering School of Information Technologies for budgeting and
financial affairs;
1997-1999: Member of the Advisory Board of the Master in Multimedia Applications;
1995-2003: Chair of the Staff Office at the Computing Facilities Department;
1995-1998: Chair of the Computing Facilities Committee at Politecnico di Torino Laboratories;
1994-1998: Elected Member of the Council of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automatic
Control;
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1994-2002: Deputy of the Chair of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automatic Control for the
Teaching and Courses planning;
1994-1997: Member of the Scientific & Technical Council of the Computing Facilities Department;
1992-1994: Member of the Committee for Teaching Timetable planning;
IEEE and IEEE Computer Society (CS) Service and Position
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2014: Member of the IEEE TAB Awards and Recognition Committee (TABARC);
2014: Member of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB);
2014: Member of the IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee (PSC);
2014: Member of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Fellows Committee;
2014: Member of the IEEE Computer Society Publications Ad Hoc Task Force;
2014: Member and Representative of THE INSTITUTE Editorial Advisory Board;
2014: Elevation to the IEEE Fellow grade;
2014: Candidate for IEEE Division V Director (2015-2017);
2014: Candidate for Member-at-Large of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB) (20152017);
2013 - 2014: Chair of the Magazine Operations Committee of the IEEE CS;
2013 - 2014: Member of the Publications Board of the CS;
2013 - 2014: Member of the Digital Library Operations Committee of the Publication Board of the IEEE CS;
2013: Member of the Audit Committee of the IEEE CS;
2013: Member of the CS Internal Review Ad-Hoc Committee
2013: Member of the Electronic Products and Services Committee of the IEEE CS (representing the
Publications Board)
2013: Selected as candidate for IEEE Division V Director
2013: Selected as “alternate” member of the 2013 IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee;
2013: Selected as “alternate” member of the 2013 IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB);
2013: Selected participant to the IEEE Forum for Leading Researchers-Amsterdam, representing the IEEE
Computer Society;
2012: Chair of the Electronic Products & Services Committee (EPSC) of the IEEE CS;
2012: Recipient of the Golden Core Award of the IEEE CS;
2012-2013: Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE CS;
2011: Member of the Publications Board of the IEEE CS;
2011: Chair of the Digital Library Operations Committee of the Publication Board of the IEEE CS;
2011: Voting Member of the Electronic Products & Services Committee (EPSC) of the IEEE CS;
2011-present: Representative of the IEEE Transactions on Computers on the editorial board of IEEE
Computing Now;
2011: recipient of the September 2011 “Volunteer of the Month” Award of Computing Now;
2010: Presenter of the IEEE Transactions on Computers at the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory
Meeting;
2009: Member of the IEEE Ad Hoc Committee for Quality of Conference Articles in IEEE Xplore;
2008-2010: Member of the Digital Library Operations Committee of the Publication Board of the IEEE CS;
2008-2009: Member-at-Large of the Publications Board of the IEEE CS;
2007: elevation to Senior Member grade of the IEEE;
2006-2007: Member of the Conference Publication Operations Committee of the Publication Board of the
CS;
1990-2006: Member of IEEE and CS;
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2014: Elevation to the IEEE Fellow grade;
2014: Appointment as Life Member of the International Academy of Sciences of Turin;
2014: Co-Guest Editor for April 2014 Monthly Theme: Semantics in Education
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/archive/april2014;
2013 (December) – application to the search of the Editor-in-Chief position of the IEEE Transactions on
Computers (term 2015-2016);
2013 – today: Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers;
2013 – today: Member of the Steering Committee and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC);
2013 – today: Member of the editorial board of Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology
(http://tandfencys.com/eisa/);
2013: Co-Guest Editor for June 2013 Monthly Theme: Indoor positioning and navigation
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/archive/june2013;
2011 – today: Liaison of the IEEE Transactions on Computers for Computing Now;
2011 – today: Member of the Advisory Board of IEEE Computing Now;
2009-2012, 2000-2004: Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers;
2008-2009: Co-Guest Editor of a Special Section on Computer Arithmetic in the IEEE Transactions on
Computers (February 2009), with more than 60 submitted papers;
2007: elevation to Senior Member grade of the IEEE;
Referee for several journals and international conferences, among them: IEEE Transactions on Computers
(since 1990), IEE Proceedings Part E, Computers and Digital Techniques (since 1992), IEE Electronics
Letters (since 1994), Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, The Euromicro Journal, Information Processing
Letters, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (since
1989), Conference on Real Numbers and Computers (RNC) (since 2000);
Reviewer of books: Digit-Recurrence Algorithms and Implementations for Division and Square Root by M.
Ercegovac and T. Lang, Kluwer 1994, Computer Arithmetic by M. Ercegovac and T. Lang, MKP 2003.
Member and Session Chair of several conferences, among them: ICOGRAPHICS 1994, from 13-th to 20-th
IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (since 1997), Conference on Real Numbers and Computers
(RNC) (since 2000), Program Co-Chair of 17-th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (June 2005);
Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (since 2005).
International Awards and acknowledgments
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2014: Elevation to the IEEE Fellow grade;
2012: Recipient of the Golden Core Award of the IEEE CS
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/goldencore#2012b);
2011: recipient of the September 2011 “Volunteer of the Month” Award of Computing Now
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/volunteeraward/archive);
2007: elevation to the IEEE Senior Member grade.
Evaluation and Judging Activity and Position
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Chair or Member of several local (to Politecnico) judging Committees for tenure evaluation for Assistant,
Associate and Full Professors;
Member of 6 national judging Committees for tenure evaluation of Associate Professors;
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Chair or Member of judging Committees in more than 50 open selections for hiring staff personnel with
technical expertise in computers;
Chair or Member of judging Committees for admission of students to the PhD Graduate School at
Politecnico di Torino in years 1993, 2002, 2009;
Chair of judging Committee for final PhD graduation (2014);
Chair or Member of 3 judging Committees for hiring three Full Professors in Computer Engineering at
Politecnico, Università degli Studi di Verona;
Chair or Member of judging Committees for hiring Assistant Professors in Computer Engineering at
Politecnico di Torino (3) and at Università degli Studi di Padova (1);
Member of PhD Defense Committees at UPC-Universitad Politecnica de Catalunya (1), USC-Universitad de
Santiago de Compostela (2), UMA-Universitad de Malaga (1), Ecole Normale Superiore de Lyon (1),
Universitade Federal de Pernambuco (Brasil).
Research Activity
The research activity has been developed, over the years, on several topics, which can be roughly grouped inside
the following main and broad themes:
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computer protocols networks and architectures
computer graphics
computer architectures
computer arithmetic
computation intensive architectures
communication, plagiarism and quality of publications
electronic publications, new media and readers
Currently research is focused on:
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computer arithmetic (algorithms and general/special purpose architectures) with special attention on:
decimal arithmetic, cryptography and finite fields, representation conversion, elementary operations such as
addition/subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, operations for multimedia;
computer architectures: special and general purpose, embedded systems, parallel and distributed systems;
computer graphics: algorithms and architectures for graphics applications, with particular reference to virtual
reality, modeling, virtual scenes rendering, animation, rendering of data;
quality of publications: metrics and tools, plagiarism, electronic dissemination and future of electronic
publications.
Recent Talks and Seminars
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“Quando il Sapere può essere digitale: riflessioni sulla tecnologia e sul libro elettronico”, Seminario La
scuola in Ospedale (May 2012);
“Quanto pesa il sapere: milleduecento libri in 180 grammi” Giovedì Scienza, (January 2012);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxFXFW2yrA
http://www.giovediscienza.it/modules/conferenze/article.php?storyid=90&xoops_theme_select=giovediscie
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“Users and Usage of Digital Libraries: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation”, University of Parma,
(September 2011);
“E-books and E-Readers”, University of Malaga, (July 2011);
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“Electronic Publications”, Computer Society Administrative meeting, (May 2010);
“Division Algorithms”, INRIA Grenoble, (March 2001);
Teaching Activity
The teaching activity has been very relevant, started in 1993 and has been of service to 3 Schools of
Engineering, one School of Architecture and the Graduate School at Politecnico di Torino. More specifically, the
teaching activity ranges over the years from a minimum of 150 hours to a maximum of 250 hours per year, to
classes ranging from 70 to 200 students (M.Sc. and B.Sc.).
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PhD: Digital Arithmetic (25 hours per year, given in English);
M.Sc.: Computer Architectures, Microprocessor Based Systems, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, both
given in English inside the joint collaboration and as part of a common program with the Master TOP-UIC
with the University of Illinois at Chicago, Sistemi di Elaborazione 1 (Advanced Computing Systems 1, given
in Italian), Sistemi di Elaborazione 2 (Advanced Computing Systems 2, given in Italian), Sistemi Informativi
1 (Information Systems, given in Italian);
B.Sc.: Calcolatori Elettronici 1 (Basic Computing Systems 1, given in Italian), Calcolatori Elettronici 2
(Basic Computing Systems 2, given in Italian), Algoritmi e Programmazione Avanzata (Advanced Computer
Programming, given in Italian), Fondamenti di Informatica 1 (Fundamentals of Computer Engineering 1,
given in Italian), Fondamenti di Informatica 3 (Fundamentals of Computer Engineering 3, given in Italian),
Architettura degli Elaboratori (Computer Architectures, given in Italian), Informatica Applicata e Telematica
(Computer Engineering and Telematics, given in Italian), Informatica Grafica (Computer Graphics, given in
Italian, Sistemi Operativi (Operating Systems, given in Italian).
Other Activities
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Member of the Governing Board of the Association AICOGRAPHICS (Italian Association of Computer
Graphics) (1988-1994);
Member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Magazine Computer Grafica e Desktop Publishing (Computer
Graphics and Desktop Publishing) (1988-1994);
Consultant activity for the Court of Justice of Torino;
Consultant activity for some small and medium companies.
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