Eric Flamand got his PhD in Computer Science from INPG, France, in 1982. For the first part of his career he worked as a researcher with CNET and CNRS in France, on architectural automatic synthesis, design and architecture, compiler infrastructure for highly constrained heterogeneous small parallel processors.

He then held different technical management positions in the semiconductor industry, first with Motorola where he was involved in the architecture definition and tooling of the StarCore DSP. Then with ST microelectronics first being in charge of all the software development of the Nomadik Application Processor and then in charge of the P2012 corporate initiative aiming at the development of a many core devices. He is now co founder and CTO of Greenwaves Technologies a French based startup developing a family of highly programmable System On Chip for ultra low power, multi sensors,
sensor data analysis at the very edge of the network.

He is also acting as a part time research consultant for ETH-Z.