Dr Luciano Ost

PhD

  • Senior Lecturer in Embedded Systems

Background

Luciano is the Programme Director of the Computer and Electronic Engineering (CEE) Programme, and he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from PUCRS, Brazil, in 2010. During his PhD, Dr Ost worked as an invited researcher at the Microelectronic Systems Institute of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (from 2007 to 2008) and at the University of York (October 2009). After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant and then as an assistant professor at the University of Montpellier II in France until joining the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in 2014. He has co-authored and authored two books and more than 100 papers. His research is devoted to advancing hardware and software architectures to improve life-critical and embedded systems’ performance, security, and reliability.