Daniele D. Caviglia was born in Vado Ligure, in Italy, in 1956. He graduated in Electronic Engineering and specialized in Computer Science at the University of Genoa in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1983 he joined the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa, first as Assistant Professor (1983-1992) and then as Associate Professor (1992-2000), where his research activities concerned device modeling, VLSI design and development of VLSI CAD tools. From 2000 he is Full Professor of Microelectronics at the same University. In October 2002 he has been elected Head of Department. His main interests are now in the field of the VLSI implementation of artificial neural networks and in CMOS circuit design for Telecommunications.
