AIS 2025

Advanced School on AI and Intelligent Systems:
Design, Engineering, and Architectures
Aug. 31st - Sept. 6th, Favignana, Sicily, Italy

Aim and Scope


The Advanced School on AI and Intelligent Systems: Design, Engineering and Architectures has the goal of fostering academic excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and international networking by bringing together PhD students, early-career professionals, and senior experts from both academia and industry. Participants will have the opportunity of exploring advancements in topics related to the AI-based design and engineering of intelligent systems in an enriching program that merges scientific advancements with cultural exchange.

In particular, the school addresses foundations, techniques and tools concerning IFIP WG 10.5 topics like Applications and Architectures for AI and ML, Communication architectures and technologies, Computing paradigms, Digital circuits design and synthesis, Embedded system design, Emerging technologies and applications, Low-power, energy-efficient and thermal-aware design, Security, Sensing and signal processing technologies, Smart systems, devices and applications, System specification, simulation and verification, Test and dependability.


TUTORIALS


Tutorials will concern emerging technologies in the following fields, with the goal of providing students with a homogeneous background ranging from AI architectures to application without forgetting verification and testing issues.

Prof. Bing Li

Prof. Bing Li
University of Siegen
LLM-Assisted Design and Simulation with Testbenches

Prof. Vidya A. Chhabria

Prof. Vidya A. Chhabria
Arizona State University, US
AI for Physical Design: Overcoming Bottlenecks in Optimization, Analysis, and Automation

Prof. Jinjun Xiong

Prof. Jinjun Xiong
University of Buffalo, US
Towards Learning-Based Surrogates for Signal Integrity Analysis in Large-Scale ICs

Prof. Yuanqing Cheng

Prof. Yuanqing Cheng
Beihang University, CN
Machine Learning for Thermal Modeling & Static Timing Analysis

Prof. Xing Hu

Prof. Xing Hu
Institute of Computing Technology, CN
AI Techniques-Driven Automated Processor Design

Lorenzo Ruggeri & Prof. Rosalba Giugno

Lorenzo Ruggeri & Prof. Rosalba Giugno
University of Verona, IT
State Space Models: The Mamba Architecture

Prof. Ying Wang

Ying Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
AI-assisted Processor Chip Design and Modeling