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Federico Rossi

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Senior Software Developer

ION Group

03/2025 - Present

Ultra low-latency connectivity for foreign exchange market access.

Researcher RTD-A, Assistant Professor

University of Pisa

10/2023 - 03/2025

Software engineering and formal verification. Formalization, implementation, and maintenance of a PyTorch-based framework for neural network validation, formal verification, and model checking.

Researcher, Software-Hardware Engineering

European Processor Initiative (EPI), University of Pisa

09/2019 - 03/2025

Design, implementation, and verification of a RISC-V instruction set extension for ML model optimization. Development and maintenance of the cppPosit C++23 library. Porting the cppPosit library into tinyDNN and Tensorflow DNN frameworks.

Work Package Leader and Researcher

TextaRossa European Project, University of Pisa

04/2021 - 04/2024

Leader of Work package 2.1 for "Accelerators with Mixed-Precision". Development of IPs for numerical data compression and posit arithmetic in RISC-V cores.

Researcher, Software-Hardware Engineering

EuPilot European Project, University of Pisa

12/2021 - 01/2024

Deployment of real-time man-down tracking algorithm for RISC-V and edge computing devices.

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Ph.D. in Information Engineering

University of Pisa

Excellent with Honors
10/2019 - 03/2023

Thesis: "Innovative Arithmetics for Efficient DNN Computing, HW and SW Solutions and Their Integration in RISC-V Platforms"

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering

University of Pisa

110 with Honors
09/2017 - 07/2019

Thesis: "On the Use of Tabulated Posits in Deep Neural Networks for Real-Time Image Classification"

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

University of Pisa

110 with Honors
09/2014 - 07/2017
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Languages

  • Italian (Native)
  • English (C1+ CEFR)

Programming

  • C/C++ (up to C++23)
  • Python
  • Bash
  • SystemVerilog

Tools

  • Make/CMake
  • GIT
  • Docker
  • CI/CD (Atlassian, Github)

Operating Systems

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS