Dr. Gentile received his Dr. Ing. degree (M.S.E.E.) in Electrical Engineering and his doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Palermo in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He also received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (USA), in December 2000, directed by Prof. D. Scott Wills.

Dr. Antonio Gentile is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Automatics and Computer Science of the University of Palermo, Italy.

Dr. Gentile is member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, of the Portable Image Computation Architecture (PICA) Group at Georgia Tech, of the ACM Society, of the IEEE Society, and of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a PRC Fellow of the Georgia Tech NSF Packaging Research Center.

• Portable Multimedia Supercomputers
• Embedded SIMD Architectures
• High Performance Computer Architectures
• Application/Architecture/Technology Design Interaction
• Short-Wire VLSI Architectures
• Parallel Computing

• Georgia Institute of Technology, D'Onufrio-Rea Scholarship, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995 - 2000
• ACM Society, member, 1999 - Present.
• IEEE Computer Society, Region 3 Atlanta Chapter, Computer Engineering Seminar coordinator, 1998 - 2000
• Georgia Institute of Technology, First Place Poster for System Integration Area, at the NSF/PRC 3rd Annual Review, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997.
• IEEE Society, IEEE Computer Society, member, 1996 - Present.
• IEEE Performance, Computing, and Communications International Conference (IPCCC97), Best Paper Award, Phoenix, Arizona, 1997.

• S. M. Chai, A. Gentile, W. E. Lugo-Beauchamp, J. Fonseca, J. L. Cruz-Rivera, D. S. Wills: Focal Plane Processing Architectures for Real-time Hyperspectral Image Processing, in Journal of Applied Optics: Special Issue on Information Processing, vol. 39, n. 5, pp. 835-849, 2000.
• A. Gentile, J. Cruz-Rivera, D. S. Wills, L. Bustelo, J. J. Figueroa, J. E. Fonseca-Camacho, W. E. Lugo-Beauchamp, R. Olivieri, M. Quiñones-Cerpa, A. H. Rivera-Ríos, I. Vargas-Gonzáles, M. Viera-Vera: Real-Time Image Processing on a Focal Plane SIMD Array, in Parallel and Distributed Processing - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Eds. Jose' Rolim et al.), v. 1586, pp. 400-405, Springer Verlag, New York, 1999.
• S. M. Chai, A Gentile, D. S. Wills: Impact of Power Density Limitation in Gigascale Integration for the SIMD Pixel Processor, in Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI99), Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 57-71, 1999.
• A. Gentile, H. H. Cat, F. Kossentini, F. Sorbello , D. S. Wills: Real-Time Vector Quantization-based Image Compression on the SIMPil Low Memory SIMD Architecture, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Intl. Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC-97), Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 10-16, 1997, BEST PAPER AWARD.
• D. S. Wills, J. M. Baker Jr., H. H. Cat, S. M. Chai, L. Codrescu, J. Cruz-Rivera, J. C. Eble, A. Gentile, M. A. Hopper, W. S. Lacy, A. Lôpez-Lagunas, P. May, S. Smith, and T. Taha: Processing Architecture for Smart Pixel Systems, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, v. 2, n. 1, pp. 24-34, 1996.
• A. Gentile , H. H. Cat, F. Kossentini, F. Sorbello , D. S. Wills: Real-Time Implementation of Full Search Vector Quantization on a Low Memory SIMD Architecture, Abstract in Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC-96), Snowbird, Utah pp. 438, 1996.