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Pierluigi Nuzzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2015 and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical computer engineering from the University of Pisa and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy. His research focuses on high-assurance design of cyber-physical systems and systems-on-chip, emphasizing the entire spectrum of mathematical foundations, design tools, and applications, particularly in compositional methods for system design and requirement engineering. His research interests include methodologies and tools for design certification, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, secure and trustworthy hardware design, as well as mixed-signal electronic design automation. Nuzzo has held faculty positions at the University of Southern California where he was the Co-Director of the USC Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, and has worked in research roles at the University of Pisa and IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, specializing in analog mixed-signal integrated circuit design. He has received several notable awards including the NSF CAREER Award and the DARPA Young Faculty Award.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and research in electrical engineering and computer sciences.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.