Short Biography of Nikil D. Dutt

Nikil D. Dutt is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine, with academic appointments in the CS and EECS departments. He received a B.E.(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1980, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He is affiliated with the following Centers at UCI: Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC), and the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI).

Professor Dutt’s research interests are in embedded systems, electronic design automation, computer architecture, optimizing compilers, system specification techniques, distributed systems, and formal methods. He is a coauthor of seven books: "High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, "Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-on-Chip: Optimizations and Exploration", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, "Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, "SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, "Functional Validation of Programmable Embedded Architectures: A Top-Down Approach", Springer-Verlag, 2005, “On-chip Communication Architectures: Current Practice, Research and Future Trends,” Morgan Kaufman/Elsevier Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008, and “Processor Description Languages: Applications and Methodologies,” Morgan Kaufman/Elsevier Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008.

Professor Dutt’s research has been recognized by Best Paper Awards at the following conferences: CHDL’89, CHDL’91, VLSI Design 2003, CODES+ISSS 2003, CNCC 2006, and ASPDAC 2006; and Best Paper Award Nominations at: WASP 2004, DAC 2005, and VLSI Design 2006. He has also received a number of departmental and campus awards for excellence in teaching at UC Irvine.

Professor Dutt currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) and as Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS) and of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI). He was an ACM SIGDA Distinguished Lecturer during 2001-2002, and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2003-2005. He has served on the steering, organizing, and program committees of several premier CAD and Embedded System conferences and workshops, including ASPDAC, DATE, ICCAD, CODES+ISSS, CASES, ISLPED and LCTES; and serves on, or has served on the advisory boards of ACM SIGBED, ACM SIGDA, and IFIP WG 10.5. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an IFIP Silver Core awardee,

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