Davide Conficconi

Politecnico di Milano

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Dipartimenti di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria

NECSTLab, Building 20

Via Giuseppe Ponzio 34/5

Milano 20133, IT

I am an Assistant Professor (RTDa) at Dipartimento Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

My research interests fall in the broad spectrum of system architecture field where achieving high-performance and energy-efficiency is paramount. Specifically major topics: (co-)design of domain-specific systems, architectures or frameworks that span the system stack (from the HDL design to the design automation, from the abstraction layer the compilation framework), reconfigurable architectures, especially FPGAs, heterogeneous systems. I am also started investigating neuromorphic systems and aerospace systems where specilization and efficiency are mandatory.

An experiment to better visualize my research can be found here (WIP). Further details of my publications can be found in Google Scholar profile, my publications page, or this self-made pdf list (possibly outdated), or other research profiles in this page.

If you are a motivated student, and curious or already share some of my research interests, feel free to reach out.

news

Mar 08, 2025 “Rock the QASBA: Quantum Error Correction Acceleration via the Sparse Blossom Algorithm on FPGAs” accepted for publication at ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems TRETS Work led by Marco Venere
Mar 03, 2025 Andrea Somaini presented the work “Combining MLIR Dialects with Domain-Specific Architecture for Efficient Regular Expression Matching” at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization in Las Vegas.
Feb 17, 2025 I have been selected for the European Talent Academy fellowship 2025. I will be representing Polimi in this research and networking program. Looking forward to visit Imperial and TUM!
Feb 05, 2025 “DFlows: a Flow-based Programming Approach for a Polyglot Design-Space Exploration Framework” accepted for publication at ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems TRETS Work led by Francesco Peverelli
Jan 20, 2025 “VOTED – Versal Optimization Toolkit for Education and Heterogeneous Systems Development” accepted for publication at 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Work led by Giuseppe Sorrentino See you in London!

selected publications

  1. HEPHAESTUS: Codesigning and Automating 3D Image Registration on Reconfigurable Architectures
    Giuseppe Sorrentino, Marco Venere, Davide Conficconi, Eleonora D’Arnese, and Marco D Santambrogio
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2023
    DOI
  2. Faber: a Hardware/Soft-ware Toolchain for Image Registration
    Eleonora D’Arnese, Davide Conficconi, Emanuele Del Sozzo, Luigi Fusco, Donatella Sciuto, and Marco D Santambrogio
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022
    DOI
  3. Pushing the Level of Abstraction of Digital System Design: a Survey on How to Program FPGAs
    Emanuele Del Sozzo, Davide Conficconi, Alberto Zeni, Mirko Salaris, Donatella Sciuto, and Marco Domenico Santambrogio
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022
    DOI
  4. CICERO: A Domain-Specific Architecture for Efficient Regular Expression Matching
    Daniele Parravicini, Davide Conficconi, Emanuele Del Sozzo, Christian Pilato, and Marco D Santambrogio
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2021
    DOI
  5. Combining MLIR Dialects with Domain-Specific Architecture for Efficient Regular Expression Matching
    Andrea Somaini, Filippo Carloni, Giovanni Agosta, Marco D Santambrogio, and Davide Conficconi
    In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2025
    DOI
  6. ALVEARE: a Domain-Specific Framework for Regular Expressions
    Filippo Carloni, Davide Conficconi, and Marco D Santambrogio
    In 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC ’24), 2024
    DOI
  7. One Automaton To Rule Them All: Beyond Multiple Regular Expressions Execution
    Luisa Cicolini, Filippo Carloni, Marco D Santambrogio, and Davide Conficconi
    In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2024
    DOI
  8. A Framework for Customizable FPGA-based Image Registration Accelerators
    Davide Conficconi, Eleonora D’Arnese, Emanuele Del Sozzo, Donatella Sciuto, and Marco D Santambrogio
    In ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 2021
    DOI