Luca Macchiarulo received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. After a year of postdoctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he worked on layout-logic synthesis for high throughput and design, he went to Politecnico di Torino where he was Researcher and Lecturer and worked in the group on low-power design and layout synthesis, and subsequently worked on injection techniques and throughput-enhancing logic and physical design.