NECST Lab Visit: Hardware Acceleration, AI for Health, and More; Politecnico di Milano

3–4 pm: Lightning Talks 4–5 pm: Networking & Discussion About NECSTLab The NECSTLab is a laboratory within the DEIB department (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria) of Politecnico di Milano. It is a place where research meets teaching through academic and industrial events. At NECSTLab, we believe that a close connection between research and education must be pursued to prepare our students properly. Research and teaching are often seen as a dichotomy, and coupling them in a productive, virtuous cycle has frequently proved challenging. Yet, we believe that research can gain significant benefits from teaching, and vice versa. This principle is the foundation of the NECSTLab. In particular, involving young students in research activities greatly enriches a research group’s creative and brainstorming phases. Students are not yet constrained by a research framework, and they are not afraid to try, and possibly fail, in order to see their ideas come to life through their work. Event led by Marco D. Santambrogio, Professor, Politecnico di Milano Marco D. Santambrogio is a Professor at Politecnico di Milano since 2018, and an Adjunct Professor del College of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) since 2009. He was Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano from 2011 to 2018 and Research Affiliate with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2010 to 2015. He received his laurea (M.Sc. equivalent) degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (2004), a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2005 and his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (2008) and we was a postdoc fellow at CSAIL, MIT (2009-2010).