Research Interests
Power-aware and low power design.

Temperature-aware design. Hybrid CMOS/molecular circuit design.

Nanotechnology-based circuit design. SOC design.
Journals and Conferences

Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2004-present

Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI, 2001

2007, Technical Program chair of NanoNets 2007 symposium

2006, General chair of ISLPED 2006 symposium

2005, Technical Program chair of ISLPED 2005 symposium

2003, General chair of GLSVLSI 2003 symposium
Past Projects

2006-2009, "MARCO/IFC: Design and Analysis of Hybrid and Monolithic Molecular Systems"

2006-2009, "NSF CRI: Comprehensive, Pre-RTL Architectural Thermal Modeling"

2004-2007, "NSF Physically Aware Computer Architecture"

2004-2006, "Darpa: Hybrid Mole Computer using Vapor Phase Assembly"

2002-2006 "NSF NIRT: Merged CMOS/Molecular Integrated Circuit (MolMOS) Fabrication, Analysis and Design"

2002-2004, "NSF CISE-RR: A High-Performance Shared-Purpose Cluster for Computer Architectural Simulation and Perceptual Interactive Ray Tracing"

2001-2004, "NSF CCR: Small-Scale Dynamic Reconfigurability for Large-Scale Benefits"

1997-2002, "NSF CAREER: Advances in Theory, Design Methods, and CAD for Low-Power VLSI"
Awards, Decorations

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-2008

IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2004-2005.

2006 Best student paper award with Lloyd Harriott, John Bean, James Tour, and students at the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), for the paper "Design - Approaches for Hybrid CMOS/Molecular Memory based on Experimental Device Data", Philadelphia, PA, May 2006.

2006, Second prize winner with a student team in the second (final) phase of the "SOC Design Challenge" contest organized by the SRC.

2005, First prize winner with a student team in the first phase of the "SOC Design Challenge" contest organized by the SRC.

2004, Finalist and Honorable Mention with prof. Ron Williams and a student team in the "Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC)" organized by the IEEE Computer Society.

Selected as a 2003 IEEE Micro Top Picks significant paper of the year in computer architecture with K. Skadron and students for the paper "Temperature-aware computer systems: opportunities and challenges" IEEE Micro, vol. 23, issue 6, pp. 52-61, Nov.-Dec. 2003

Best paper award with Kevin Skadron and students at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) for the paper "Temperature-Aware Microarchitecture", San Diego, CA, June 2003.

2003, Finalist and Honorable Mention with two student teams in the "SiGe Design Challenge" contest organized by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).

2003, membership in the Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

2002, Finalist and Fourth Place Winner with prof. Ron Williams and a student team in the "Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC)" organized by the IEEE Computer Society.

Best student paper award with John Lach, Kevin Skadron, Marty Humphrey and students at the Workshop on Self-Healing, Adaptive and self-MANaged Systems (SHAMAN), held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, for the paper "Control-Theoretic Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Scaling", New York, NY, June 2002.

2002, University of Virginia Teaching Fellow.

2001, Finalist and Honorable Mention with prof. Ron Williams and a student team in the "Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC)" organized by the IEEE Computer Society.

2000, Finalist and Honorable Mention with a student team in the "Cu Design Challenge" contest organized by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).

1998, Senior member of the IEEE.

1997, life member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

1995/1996, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

1996, membership in the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

1996, membership in the Sigma Xi honor society.