Giovanni De Micheli pioneered methods that map algorithmic descriptions of computation and communication into digital circuits and networks. His work has enabled designers to conceive electronic integrated circuits and systems on chips by means of high-level language models, and then to compile such models into detailed descriptions ready for manufacturing. He has been instrumental in the creation of the $18 billion Electronic Design Automation industry. His most impactful contribution is the automated design of networks on chips (NoCs). In his visionary approach, he conceived IC components communicating through data packets, and he created the technological path to make NoCs energy efficient and competitive on silicon. 

An IEEE Life Fellow, De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory and of the EcoCloud Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.