External Service:
Invited to serve as an external referee for a Czech Science Foundation grant. I was requested to serve as a referee in June 2018.
Invited to serve as an external referee for the tenure case of a faculty member at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. I was requested to serve as an external referee in Spring 2018.
Invited to serve as Track Chair for the Logic Track for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2018. I was invited to serve as Track Chair in Spring 2018. Declined due to health reasons.
Invited to serve as Track Chair for the Logic Track for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2017. I was invited to serve as Track Chair in Spring 2017. Declined due to health reasons.
Invited to serve as Track Chair for the Logic Track for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2017. I was invited to serve in late 2016.
Invited to serve as a panelist for ICCAD 2016, for the panel titled “Challenges and Opportunities of Stochastic Computing in the Dusk of Moore’s Law and the Dawn of Big Data”, Declined due to health reasons.
Invited to serve as Track Chair for the Logic Track for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2016. I was invited to serve as Track Chair in Spring 2016
Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016. I was invited to serve on the EDA5 track (RTL/Logic Level and FPGA Synthesis, Design and Testing)
Invited to serve as Track Chair for the Logic Track for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2015. I was invited to serve as Track Chair in Spring 2015
Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2015. I was invited to serve on the Logic Synthesis track.
Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 28th International Conference on VLSI Design, Bangalore, India in 2015. I was invited to join the TPC in August 2014.
Invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-Chair, EDA Track, for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2014. I was invited to serve as co-Chair in July 2014.
Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC), Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2014. I served on the EDA6 track “High-level and Logic Synthesis and FPGA”.
Invited to serve as Special Sessions Co-Chair for the 57th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2014. Also serving on the organizing committee for this conference.
Invited to serve as a Review Committee Member (RCM) for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2014.
Invited to serve as Panel Chair for the 2nd IEEE Texas Workshop on Integrated Systems Exploration (TexasWISE), 2014. Also serving on the organizing committee for this workshop.
Invited to serve on the Advisory Committee, for the Hot Topics in Physical Informatics (HotPI) Workshop, 2013.
Invited to serve as Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) 2013. I served as co-chair for the “VLSI Systems, Applications and Computer Aided Design” track.
Invited to serve as a Panel Chair for the “Models and High-Speed Simulation” session, 15th ACM/IEEE System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) Workshop 2013, Austin, TX. June 2, 2013.
Invited to join the Technical Program Committee (TPC), The 1st Workshop on Modeling of Biological Systems (MoBS) 2013, Austin, TX. June 2013.
Invited to serve on the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) best paper committee, March 2013.
Invited to serve as Poster Chair for the 1st IEEE Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE) 2013, Winedale, TX. March 2013. Also served on the organizing committee for this workshop.
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). Invited to serve in this capacity in February 2012. I will cover papers in the area of Logic, RTL and behavioral synthesis for a 3-year term.
Lead Guest Editor, VLSI Design. Invited in 2012 to serve as a lead Guest Editor for a Special Issue of VLSI Design.
Invited to join the Editorial Board, MDPI Journal of Electronics, May 2011.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers. I served in this position from 2010 to 2011.
Chair, ACM/SIGDA Logic/RTL Synthesis Technical Committee. I was invited to serve on this committee, from June 2009-2010.
Area Editor (Electronics Design) for the book “GPU Computing Gems”. I was invited to serve as Area Editor in 2009.
Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS) 2005-07, 2010. Invited to join this committee in 2004.
Member, Technical Program Committee, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference, 2010. I was invited to join the DATE TPC for Track D13 (Logic and Technology Dependent Synthesis for Deep-Submicron Circuits).
Member, selection committee for “ACM Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award in EDA for 2009”, starting February 2010.
Track Chair for Logic Synthesis track, IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2009-10. I was invited to chair the Logic Synthesis track in Spring 2009.
General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS-09).
Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Devices (ISQED) 2009, 2010.
Publicity Co-chair, ACM/IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI), 2009. Invited to serve as Publicity Co-chair in 2008.
Panel Chair, International Test Synthesis Workshop (ITSW), 2009. Invited to serve on the ITSW committee in 2008.
Technical Program Committee Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS-08). I was invited to join this committee in 2007.
Track Co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2008-10. I was invited to co-chair the “Computer Aided Network DEsign” (CANDE) track of ISCAS in 2007.
Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) 2007, 2008, 2009. I was invited to join this committee in 2007.
Member, Technical Program Committee, DesignCon, 2007-2009.
Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2008-10. I was invited to join this committee in late 2007.
Review Committee Member (RCM), IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2007. I was invited to serve as an RCM for the “Computer Aided Network DEsign” (CANDE) track.
Track Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-07). I was invited to co-chair the “Test and Methodologies” Track of ICCD in 2007.
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), 2004-06. Invited to join this committee in 2003.
Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN-04). Invited to join this committee in 2003.
Invited to serve as Session Chair for several conferences including the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2008), Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2008,International Test Synthesis Workshop (ITSW) 2007, the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006, 2007), the Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC 2006), the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2005, the International Conference on Networking (ICON-03), and the Design Automation Conference (2005).
Reviewed a large number of technical papers for numerous technical journals and conferences (1993-2004). Reviews include IEE Transactions (Computers and Digital Techniques), IEEE Transactions on VLSI, IEEE Transactions on CAD of ICs and Systems, Electronic Letters, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, International Conference on VLSI Design, Design Automation Conference (DAC), International Symposium on Low-Power Electronic Design (ISLPED), Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), European Design Automation Conference (Euro-DAC-96), and International Test Conference (ITC).
University and ECE Departmental Service:
Serving on the ECE Hiring Committee (Jan 2018 – present). I have been participating by reviewing faculty applications, meeting faculty candidates, and helping decide on hiring decisions for tenure-track as well as professional faculty
Serving on the Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee (CECC), Fall 2017 – present.
Invited to serve on the College-level “High Performance Computing” (HPC) search committee. I was invited to serve on this committee by Dr. Georghiades in Spring 2015.
Helped the ECE undergraduate recruiting efforts by presenting a talk on the benefits of an ECE degree, to about 100 freshman students who were considering ECE during their entry to major.
Helping undergraduate recruiting by helping conduct a laboratory session in the revamped “ECE Summer Enrichment Workshops” week in July, 2014. In this laboratory, students will learn about ECE by developing a solar car.
On the request of the ECE Department Head, I am initiating a “ECE Pizza Friday” in Spring 2014, in which students will attend a monthly evening meeting hosted by the ECE Department, to showcase the career opportunities that an ECE graduate enjoys. This will be continued in Fall 2014, when all incoming undergraduates will join TAMU with no declared major.
Serving on the TAMU College of Engineering “Emerging Technologies Advisory Council”, (ELTAC), since 2014.
Presentation at Aggieland Saturday (2014). I attended a faculty panel session in which prospective students and their parents asked questions about the TAMU ECE Department.
New Course Development (Spring 2014). I have been working on developing a new undergraduate course. In this course, students will design, synthesize, simulate, place, route, and tape out a digital Integrated Circuit (IC). The course will be a senior elective course. Course Laboratory Redesign (Spring-Summer 2014). I am working on converting the laboratory exercises of two courses, ECEN 248 (Digital Systems Design) and ECEN 449 (Microprocessor Systems Design) to a mobile laboratory station environment, using mobile test equipment from National Instruments.
New Course Development (Spring 2014). I have obtained permission from the Department Head of the ECE Department to initiate a course (a pass/fail, 1 credit course for sophomores or seniors) in which I will discuss career issues. The course will cover life lessons that are important for a healthy career, including life-long learning, networking, people skills, career choices and self-improvement. The lectures will be augmented by visits from industry leaders who will be able to share their career lessons with the students. This course is under development and will be submitted for approval in Spring 2014.
Represented the ECE Department in the College of Engineering initiative to foster closer research ties with the ECE Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Visited IIT Kanpur in 2013 to help identify possible areas of research synergy.
Serving on the ECE Distinguished Speaker Committee, as a representative of the CE group, starting Spring 2013.
Serving on the Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee as the representative of the CE group, starting 2013.
Helped migrate the ECEN 248 laboratory from a Windows platform to a Linux platform (Summer 2011).
Served as the College of Engineering representative for the Friends of India Network (FIN) (2010 – 11).
Served as the representative for ECE in the college level IT committee, to help reduce costs by shared services (2010 – present).
TAMU ECE Scholarship Committee Member, starting February 2010.
Serving as a Faculty Mentor under TAMU’s Network Mentoring Program (NMP) (2009 – present).
Serving on the ECE Undergraduate Studies Committee as the representative of the CE group, starting 2009.
ECE Unix Committee (2008-2014). Along with two other faculty, I am helping provide recommendations for the upgrade and maintenance of the ECE Unix computing infrastructure. I am serving as the chair of this committee since 2009.
Presentation at Discover ECE day (2008-09). Presented a talk to prospective TAMU Engineering students and their parents. The talk titled “What does a Computer Engineer do?” covers courses, research and job prospects in the Computer Engineering area after a B.S. degree in CE from TAMU.
Texas A&M University, assisting in ABET Certification (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2013, Spring 2014). Provided data and analysis results for the ECEN 449 course, for ABET certification purposes. Will be providing similar data for Spring 2009.
Redesigned Laboratories for ECEN 248 (Summer 2008). Along with Dr. Choi, I helped to substantially redesign the laboratories for ECEN 248 (Introduction to Digital Systems Design), and make them more current and technically relevant.
Texas A&M University, Qatar. Visited our ECE Department at TAMU-Q during January 2008, to demonstrate the laboratory exercises that we had developed for ECEN 449, to the faculty and laboratory coordinators at TAMU-Q.
Texas A&M University, designed and developed the website for the Computer Engineering group, 2007. Along with my colleague Dr. Alex Sprintson, we developed a new website for the CE group (<ahref=”http://cegroup.ece.tamu.edu”>http://cegroup.ece.tamu.edu).
Course Redesign, ECEN 449 (Summer 2007). Along with Dr. Reddy, I helped to redesign the laboratories and lectures for ECEN 449 (Microprocessor Systems Design).
Presentation at Aggieland Saturday (2007-09). Presented a 15-minute talk to prospective TAMU Engineering students and their parents. The talk covered courses, research and job prospects in the Computer Engineering area after a B.S. degree in CE from TAMU.
Graduate Admissions, Computer Engineering group (2006-2009). Along with a colleague, I help screen graduate applicants for the Computer Engineering group, and make admissions decisions.
Member, ECE Distinguished Visitor Committee (Fall 2005). I served on this committee from Fall 2005 through Fall 2006.
Texas A&M University, ECE faculty interviews, 2004-12. I have made special efforts to attend all ECE faculty hiring candidate seminars, and spend time with ECE faculty candidates. I have provided my feedback to the ECE Department Head, to help ensure that we hire the best faculty.
Texas A&M University, participated in ABET Certification for the Computer Engineering program, 2004-05. The certification process went through flawlessly. My course was used by the ABET personnel to interview the students.
Was invited to be a panelist on a panel discussion on “How to Search for an Academic Job”, Texas A&M University, Fall 2004. Informal advising of undergraduates. Some of my undergraduate and graduate students frequently solicit my input on their courses, career choices and technology trends. Encouraging undergraduates in ELEN 248, ELEN 449 and ELEN 454 to consider pursuing graduate school. Most of them enjoy this discussion very much, since they were not familiar with the option of continuing studies in graduate school. Advised TAMU EE undergraduates Rob Hammond and Anshul Gupta, under the URA program
(2004-05).
Member, Dissertation and Thesis Committee for several Texas A&M students. The students include Hari Sankar (EE, Ph.D.), Ekpe Orafur (EE, Ph.D.), Taekwon Jee (ME, M.S.), Seraj Ahmad (CS, M.S.), Nitin Nangre (ECE, Ph.D.), Kiran Gunnam (ECE, Ph.D.), Ganesh Venkataraman (EE, Ph.D.), Rohit Singhal (EE, Ph.D.), Rupak Samanta (CS, Ph.D.), Maja Knezev (EE, Ph.D.), Zarko Djekic (EE, Ph.D.), Tae Kim (CS, Ph.D.), Meng Shi (EE, M.S.), Jing Sun (EE, M.S.) and John Kocurek (EE, M.S.).
University of Colorado, ECE VLSI Group Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Committee. Since I joined CU, I had been on the VLSI Group Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Committee. I had been involved in conducting about 15 preliminary exams to date. I chaired this committee in 2003, and in 2004 as well.
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of ECE, CU Boulder (2000 – 2002). Reviewed files and recommended graduate students for admissions. Proposed methods to improve the quality of admitted ECE graduate students. Visited top international schools to encourage high-quality graduate students to apply to the ECE department. Pointed out that we were emphasizing undergraduate GPA too heavily in our graduate admissions process, which is error prone since the undergraduate GPA is estimated in many cases. Recommended and helped implement methods to advertise ECE more aggressively, to ensure that we get quality applicants.
Book review of “Cross-talk Avoidance Techniques in VLSI”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
University of Colorado, ECE faculty hiring (2000 – 2002). Provided detailed feedback on all faculty candidates to the Hiring Committee to support the effort of hiring quality faculty. I have met with and attended the seminars of most of the ECE faculty candidates since my arrival at CU.
University of Colorado, ECE Technical Reports (2000 – 2001) When I joined the ECE department, there was no mechanism for faculty to create Technical Reports for their research work. I recommended this to our Chair, and worked with the ECE staff to bootstrap this effort.
University of Colorado, participated in ABET Certification for the ECE Department by providing statistical information about exams and homework from the ECEN 4703 course.
Book review of “Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems” by John Uyemura (John Wiley and Sons Publishers), 2001.
Contributed to the release of VIS, a formal verification tool that is developed and distributed by the VLSI group under the direction of Prof Fabio Somenzi. VIS-1.4 was released in Summer 2001 and VIS-2.0 was released in Fall 2002. I have worked on code review, bug fixes and several low-level tasks related to the release.
Member, Dissertation and Thesis Committee for the following CU students: Chao Wang (ECE, Ph.D.), HoonSang Jin (ECE, Ph.D.), Bing Li (ECE, Ph.D.), Adrian Michalicek (ME Ph.D.), Sandeep Dhar (ECE Ph.D.), Yin Yan (ECE Ph.D.), Se-Ho You (ECE Ph.D.), Garrett Holthaus (ECE, M.S.), In-Ho Moon (ECE Ph.D.), Benjamin Patella (ECE M.S.), Balakrishna Kumthekar (ECE Ph.D.), Stephen Gallant (ECE M.S.), Nwanua Elumeze (ECE M.S.), Subramoni Parameswaran (ECE M.S.), Jay Plucienkowski (ECE M.S.), Matthew Lovell (ECE M.S.).
Computing infrastructure of the CU VLSI CAD group: Along with Prof. Fabio Somenzi, I had worked on upgrading the hardware and software infrastructure of the VLSI research laboratory. I had been instrumental in obtaining educational licenses for Rational Software products, which are critically important for us to be able to develop quality software releases from the VLSI group.
Technical Advisor, Accelicon, Inc. (2009-10). Invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of Accelicon, a Silicon Valley company specializing in SPICE model card extraction for circuit simulation. My role was to advise the company in areas relating to the use of GPUs to accelerate their products.
Technical Advisor, Nascentric, Inc. (2008-09). Invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of Nascentric, a company specializing in fast circuit simulation. My role was to advise the company in areas relating to the use of GPUs to accelerate their products.
Technical Advisor, InMage Systems, Inc., Milpitas, CA (2002-06). Invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of SV Systems, a Storage-area Networking (SAN) start-up company specializing in data recovery. My role was to advise the company in areas relating to VLSI design and implementation of relevant ICs.
Faculty Advisor, ITU Ventures, Beverly Hills, CA (2002-04). My role was to advise the ITU personnel about the viability of business proposals in the areas of VLSI Design and CAD.
Technical Advisor, Jasmine Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (2000-01). Invited to join the Technical Advisory Board of Jasmine Networks, an optical networking startup company. My involvement included advice on VLSI issues, including system-level high-speed I/O issues, crosstalk immune bus design, and advice on VLSI design and fabrication.
Recommended to the ECE Department Chair at the University of Colorado, to conduct an “Industrial Visitor Day”, where we would showcase our ECE research and network with the members of the local industry to share our results, and also possibly develop research collaborations with industry. This was implemented in April 2000.
Responsible for responding to user queries about SIS (1993-99). SIS (Sequential Interactive System) is a logic synthesis and optimization system developed at the CAD group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Conducted the Computer-Aided Design Seminar at UC Berkeley (1997-98). Tasks involved inviting and hosting international guests at the seminars, and coordinating the seminars. Reviewed grant proposals for California MICRO grants (1997).
Involved in industrial consulting with Silicon Valley companies (1994-95). Consultant for SUN microsystems’ CAD group as well as their UltraSPARC group in the area of CAD algorithms and issues. Conducted a week-long series of lectures on state-of-the-art CAD algorithms. The focus was SIS, a logic synthesis and optimization tool developed at UC Berkeley. The audience was a group of practicing engineers from the corporate CAD group and the UltraSPARC microprocessor design groups.