This Ph.D. is a professor of computer engineering in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at a major California University, where he served as a chair from 1998 to 2003. He has been involved in research and development in the areas of: computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, VLSI chip design,network-on-chip, sensor networks, and computer graphics since he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin.  He has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.  He has trained hundreds of students who have assumed key positions in software and computer systems design companies in the past twenty years. He has been a PI or Co-PI on more than 8 million dollars worth of research grants for developing next generation computer systems for applications in general purpose computing and digital signal processing.  He is interested in low-power and embedded digital signal processing, computer architecture, computer graphics, memory architecture (DRAM, SRAM, flash) and VLSI design.

Within the area of embedded digital signal processing, this Ph.D. is interested in the design and VLSI development of reconfigurable processor architectures and their algorithm mapping for high-performance and low-power applications in mobile communications.  This technology can be used for 3G and 4G cellular phones, as well as other telecommunications systems.  In the area of computer graphics, he has been involved in the development of a new scheme for creating computer-generated three-dimensional models of a scene based on previously recorded images captured with a standard digital video camera. These models can be used for military and civilian simulator applications, as well as movie special effects.  In the area of low-power system design, he has developed a software tool for scheduling and planning mission tasks to achieve power and performance objectives. This technology is targeted for planetary missions of autonomous spacecraft as well as for unmanned military vehicles.

• Computer Graphics
• Computer Networks
• Digital Signal Processing Architectures
• DRAM, SRAM, EEPROM, and Flash memory
• Memory System Architecture
• Processor Architectures (VLIW, Superscalar)
• Software Analysis
• VLSI Design

• Ph.D., Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Austin
• M.S., Electrical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. (with Honors), Electrical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin