Profile

Guilherme Paim received the five-year engineering degree, as first ranked, in Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, in 2015. He is a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Recently, he was with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a visiting researcher with a Ph.D. scholarship. His research interests are Approximate Computing, Low-power VLSI architectures, Arithmetic Operators, Video Coding, Digital Signal Processing, Neural Networks Accelerators, and Side-channel attack-resistant circuits for Cryptography.  

Leandro Mateus Giacomini Rocha received a five-year engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2016. He also obtained an engineering degree in Electronic Integrated Systems from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, in 2015 as part of a double degree program. He has a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics (2020) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at KU Leuven and imec to work on neural network hardware accelerators for portable devices. His research interests are low-power VLSI architectures, Approximate computing, Arithmetic Operators, Neural Networks Accelerators, Machine Learning, Biomedical Applications.