MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FOR Multi-processor systems-on-Chip architectures
The main goal of the research is the definition of automatic design space exploration techniques for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip. In particular, the analysis is addressed towards the automatic exploration of the space of design parameters related to MP-SoC architectures. The proposed exploration techniques are multi-objective in terms of several figures of merit such as performance and power dissipation. The recent research on exploration techniques mainly focuses on the design of Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip based on Network on Chip architectures. 

She is currently the European Coordinator of the project FP7-2PARMA-248716 on "PARallel PAradigms and Run-time MAnagement techniques for Many-core Architectures" (Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2012). The 2PARMA Consortium is composed of seven partners: Politecnico di Milano (Italy), STMicroelectronics (Italy), Heinrich Hertz Institute - Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Germany), IMEC (Belgium), ICCS - Institute of  Communication and Computer Systems  (Greece), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), CoWare (Belgium). The 2PARMA project focuses on the definition of a parallel programming model combining component-based and single-instruction multiple-thread approaches, instruction set virtualisation based on portable bytecode, run-time resource management policies and mechanisms as well as design space exploration methodologies for Many-core Computing Fabrics. 

She was the European Coordinator of the on-going project FP7-MULTICUBE-216693 on "Multi-objective design space exploration of multi-processor SoC architectures for embedded multimedia applications" (Jan. 2008 - June 2010). The MULTICUBE Consortium is composed of nine partners: Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Design of Systems on Silicon – DS2 (Spain), STMicroelectronics (Italy), IMEC (Belgium), ESTECO (Italy), University of Lugano - ALaRI (Switzerland), University of Cantabria (Spain), STMicroelectronics Beijing (China), Institute of Computing Technology – Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).

In the context of the MULTICUBE project, she is also currently leading a research group at Politecnico di Milano whose research focuses on design space exploration for multi-processor architectures working on an open-source tool (MULTICUBE Explorer) to enable an automatic and fast optimization of configurable system architectures towards a set of objective functions such as energy and delay. MULTICUBE Explorer provides a set of innovative sampling and optimization techniques to help finding the multi-objective Pareto points. It also provides an open XML interface for supporting exploration of new platforms/architectures by interacting with a system-level simulator.

VITTORIO ZACCARIA, Ph. D., currently Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. System Architectures Group, and previously R&D Engineer at STMicroelectronics,
Ph.D. Thesis on: "Power exploration methodologies for VLIW-based systems", XIV, 2002, Advisor: prof. M. Sami.

GIANLUCA PALERMO, Ph.D., currently Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. System Architectures Group.
Ph.D. Thesis on: "Design Methodologies for Embedded Architectures Based on Network on-Chip", XVIII, Feb. 2006, Advisor: prof. C. Silvano

MATTEO MONCHIERO, Ph.D., currently Senior Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Barcelona, and previously Post Doctoral Research Associate at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, Exascale Computing Lab., Ph.D. Thesis on: “Power/performance analysis and optimization of multicore architectures”, XIX, Feb. 2007, Advisor: prof. C. Silvano

ORESTE VILLA, Ph.D., currently Research Scientist in the High Performance Computing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  (www.pnl.gov), Richland, WA (USA)
Ph.D. Thesis: “Designing and Programming Multi-core Architectures”, XX, Feb. 2008, Advisor: prof. C. Silvano

GIOVANNI AGOSTA, Ph. D., currently Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano. Formal Languages and Compilers Group. His current research focuses on Dynamic Compilation for ILP Architectures. The research advisor is Professor Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Politecnico di Milano.

GIOVANNI BELTRAME, Ph. D., currently Research Fellow at European Space Agency, The Hague Area, NL. 
Ph.D. Thesis on: "Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platforms", XVIII, Feb. 2006, Politecnico di Milano, Advisor: prof. D. Sciuto.

LEANDRO FIORIN, Ph.D. student at ALaRI, the Advanced Learning and Research Institute, part of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano (Switzerland), Advisor: prof. M. Sami.

GIOVANNI MARIANI, Ph. D., currently Post-Doc at ALaRI, the Advanced Learning and Research Institute, part of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano (Switzerland), Ph.D. Thesis: "A Design Space Exploration Methodology Supporting Run-time Resource Management for Multi-Core Architectures", Advisor: prof. M. Sami, Co-Advisor: prof. C. Silvano

FABRIZIO CASTRO, Ph. D. student, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano.

CAROLINE CONCATTO, Ph. D. student at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Informática, Departamento de Informática Aplicada, Porto Alegre (Brasil). Advisor: Prof. Luigi Carro.