Pierre-Yves Burgi

Pierre-Yves Burgi head of Research and Scientific Information Unit, in charge of high performance computing, and long-term data storage and archiving at University of Geneva. Graduated in computer engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland in 1986, and obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Geneva in 1992. His studies were followed by a 5-year post-doctoral fellowship in neurosciences at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, and at the Brain and Cognition Unit of Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. From 1997 to 2003, he worked in the Microelectronics Division of the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, Neuchâtel, where he conducted applied research in the field of bio-inspired artificial vision based on VLSI microcircuits. In 2003, he joined the University of Geneva as Deputy Director of the Information Systems Division, where he headed the New Technologies Unit until 2017. Since 2020, he has been involved in DNA data storage, becoming a member of the DNA data storage alliance in 2021, and initiating the DNAMIC (DNA Microfactory for Autonomous Archiving) European project in 2022 to design an autonomous prototype solution based on a low-energy microfactory for end-to-end DNA data archiving.