Davide Conficconi

Politecnico di Milano

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Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria

NECSTLab, Building 20

Via Giuseppe Ponzio 34/5

Milano 20133, IT

I am an Assistant Professor at Dipartimento Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

My research interests fall in the broad spectrum of the computer system architecture field. Major topics are: (co-) design of computer architectures (including compiler, ISA, microarchitecture), computer systems, reconfigurable architectures such as FPGAs, heterogeneous systems, and design automation.

My research investigates how domain knowledge can be systematically embedded into computing systems, such as biomedical systems, aerospace systems, and quantum systems.

Other explorations: neuromorphic systems, whiskey aging (WHISKEY-AI workshop).

An experiment to better visualize my research can be found here (WIP).

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

news

Jul 29, 2026 Invited to serve in HPCA 2027 Program Committee as Reserve Reviewer Submit your papers!
Jul 22, 2026 Giacomo Brunetta and Marco Laurenzi defended their Master thesis project. They achieved their Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Congratulations!
Jun 03, 2026 I have started my visiting at the University of Edinburgh hosted by Prof. Antonio Barbalace
May 26, 2026 “A Power-Centric Methodology to Characterize Edge AI SoC with Limited Telemetry Capabilities” won the best paper award at RAW’26! The work was presented by Giuseppe Sorrentino and led by Giulio Mantovi and Davide Paltrinieri.
May 12, 2026 Thanks to TUM Global Incentive Fund (GIF) and ETA25 Melanie Köhler, Ovidiu Șerban, Fabio Pizzetti and myself are organizing the WHISKEY-AI workshop. It will be in TUM the 2–3 July 2026. We are looking for speakers and participants willing to join this interdisciplinary research area or bring their vertical perspecitve! Register here and find more details on WHISKEY-AI website :)

selected publications

  1. ACM SIGMTERICS
    Are We Ready to Enable Satellite Autonomy Through on Board Image Registration?
    Claudio Di Salvo, Emanuele Del Sozzo, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Eleonora D’Arnese, Paolo Panicucci, and Davide Conficconi
    Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 2026
    DOI Supp Code
  2. IEEE FCCM
    Adaptive AIE–PL Systems for Efficient End-to-End Pyramidal 3D Image Registration
    Giuseppe Sorrentino, Paolo S. Galfano, Claudio Di Salvo, Eleonora D’Arnese, and Davide Conficconi
    In 2026 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2026
    DOI Code IEEE Artifacts Available IEEE Artifacts Reviewed IEEE Artifacts Reproduced
  3. IEEE FCCM
    ReFHE-NTT: Resource-Driven NTT FPGA Architecture for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
    Valentino Guerrini, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Alessandro Barenghi, and Davide Conficconi
    In 2026 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2026
    DOI Code IEEE Artifacts Available IEEE Artifacts Reviewed IEEE Artifacts Reproduced
  4. ACM EuroSys
    RoPeerTo: A Datacenter-Scale Architecture for Peer-To-Peer DMA between GPUs and FPGA
    Marco Venere, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Benjamin Ramhorst, Maximilian Jakob Heer, Lucian Petrica, Dario Korolija, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Davide Conficconi, Gustavo Alonso, and Kenneth O’Brien
    In Proceedings of the Twentyfirst European Conference on Computer Systems, 2026
    DOI Code Artifacts Reviewed Artifacts Available
  5. IEEE FCCM
    Soaring with TRILLI: an HW/SW Heterogeneous Accelerator for Multi-Modal Image Registration
    Giuseppe Sorrentino, Paolo S. Galfano, Eleonora D’Arnese, and Davide Conficconi
    In 2025 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2025
    DOI Code IEEE Artifacts Available IEEE Artifacts Reviewed IEEE Artifacts Reproduced
  6. ACM TRETS
    DFlows: A Flow-based Programming Approach for a Polyglot Design-Space Exploration Framework
    Francesco Peverelli, Daniele Paletti, and Davide Conficconi
    ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2025
    DOI Code
  7. IEEE/ACM CGO
    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 Code Artifacts Evaluated - Functional Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable Artifacts Available
  8. ACM/IEEE DAC
    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 Code
  9. IEEE/ACM CGO
    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 Code Artifacts Evaluated - Functional Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable Artifacts Available
  10. ACM TECS
    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 Code
  11. IEEE TPDS
    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 Code
  12. ACM CSUR
    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 Code
  13. ACM TECS
    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 Code
  14. ACM FPGA
    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 Code Artifacts Evaluated - Functional Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable Artifacts Available