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Prof. Dr. Luca Benini holds the chair of Digital Circuits and Systems at ETHZ and is Full Professor at the Universita di Bologna. He received a PhD from Stanford University. Prof. Dr. Benini's research interests are in energy-​efficient parallel computing systems, smart sensing micro-​systems and machine learning hardware. He has published more than 1000 peer-​reviewed papers and five books. Prof. Dr. Benini has won numerous awards, including the 2016 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award, the 2019 IEEE TCAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award, and the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Award in 2020. He is an ERC Advanced Grant winner, a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM, and is a member of the Acadamia Europea. 

Prof. Dr. Benini has the following to say about the laboratory: “The EFCL is a unique opportunity for long term research with long term industry impact!”

Prof. Dr. Srdjan Capkun is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Dipl.Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the University of Split in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from EPFL in 2004. Prior to joining ETH Zurich in 2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), University of California Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor in the Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Department, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research interests are in system and network security. His focus areas are wireless security (in particular secure positioning), and system security where he focuses on trusted computing and blockchain technologies. He is a co- founder of 3db Access, a company focusing on secure distance measurement and proximity-based access control, and of Futurae, a spin-off focusing on usable on-line authentication. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project on securing positioning in wireless networks. He is a fellow of the ACM.

Prof. Dr. Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he previously held the Strecker Early Career Professorship. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, systems, hardware security, and bioinformatics. A variety of techniques he, along with his group and collaborators, has invented over the years have influenced industry and have been employed in commercial microprocessors and memory/storage systems. He obtained his PhD in from the University of Texas at Austin. He started the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), and held various product and research positions at Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, VMware, and Google. He is both an IEEE and ACM Fellow and an elected member of the Academia Europaea.