The mission of his research is to stay at the forefront of system innovation by leveraging the enabling properties of communication architectures and emerging technologies. He has published around 180 scientific contributions in the field of interconnect-centric design and co- edited one book on networks-on-chip in 2010. He has worked in several research projects funded by the European Union (Galaxy, NaNoC, and vIrtical) and coordinated a pioneering national project on the applications of silicon photonics to computer communications (Photonica).