Marco Ottavi is currently a Research Professor with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" as the recipient of a "rientro dei cervelli" fellowship awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. He previously was a Senior Design Engineer with AMD and held post doc positions with Sandia National Laboratories and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northeastern University in Boston. He received the Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Rome "La Sapienza". His research interests include yield and reliability modeling, fault-tolerant architectures, on-line testing and design of nano scale circuits and systems.