Mr. Alessandro Piovaccari previously served as Silicon Labs’ CTO and senior vice president of central R&D and was responsible for the company’s products research and development. He currently serves as the vice president of conferences for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and a visiting fellow in approaches, methods and practices in circuit design in leading fabless companies at the University of Bologna in Italy. Additionally, he is a member of multiple startups and education advisory boards. Piovaccari has more than 25 years of technical and management experience in the semiconductor industry and has co-architected and led many wireless and IoT SoCs with a 4 billion devices shipments. Piovaccari holds PhD and Laurea degrees in EECS from the University of Bologna and a Post-Grad (summa cum laude) in EECS from Johns-Hopkins University.