Dr Luciano Ost

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.

Research interests

At the moment, Luciano's primary research goal aims at improving the reliability and security of emerging AI-based autonomous systems while providing appropriate guarantees on performance and energy efficiency. His idea is to identify and propose techniques that can be used to provide different levels of performance guarantees and that cope with different levels of reliability and security on the application workload and criticality of future autonomous systems. Possible PhD Research Topics:

• Design and exploration of fault-tolerant autonomous systems
• Evaluation of radiation-induced soft error reliability in AI-based embedded systems
• High-level modelling and simulation of AI-based autonomous systems
• Deployment and performance assessment of machine learning models in resource-constrained IoT devices

Luciano is always looking forward to work with talented and motivated students. Contact him directly if you are interested in his research topics. Luciano is also very open to discussing different research ideas that you may have in mind.

Current teaching responsibilities

• WSD307 – Advanced Embedded Computer Architecture and Parallel Programming
• WSC332 – Cybersecurity for Embedded Systems
• WSC354 – Electronic System Design with FPGAs Coursework
• WSC334 – Deployment of machine learning inference models in IoT Devices

Current administrative responsibilities

• Programme Director of the Computer and Electronic Engineering (CEE) programme
• Europractice representative of Wolfson School

Recent publications

Find my list of publications at:

• Google Scholar
  https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=N0zm_mMAAAAJ&hl=en
• ResearchGate
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciano_Ost/contributions