Nikil D. Dutt (F) received a Ph.D. in Computer  Science  from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, and is currently a Chancellor's Professor
at the University of California, Irvine, with academic appointments in the 
CS and EECS departments.
His research interests are in embedded systems, electronic  design automation, 
computer architecture, optimizing compilers, system specification techniques, 
distributed embedded systems, formal methods, and brain-inspired architectures and computing. 
He received best paper awards at CHDL89, CHDL91, VLSIDesign2003,
CODES+ISSS 2003, CNCC 2006, ASPDAC-2006, and IJCNN 2009. 
Professor Dutt currently serves
as Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS),
and of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (IEEE TVLSI).
He served as Editor-in-Chief of 
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) between 2004-2008.
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 Design conferences and workshops, 
including DAC, DATE, ESWEEK, ICCAD, ISLPED, RTAS and RTSS. 
He serves or has served on the advisory boards of 
ACM SIGBED and ACM SIGDA, the ACM Publications Board, and previously served 
as  Vice-Chair of ACM SIGDA and of IFIP WG 10.5. 
Professor Dutt is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, 
and an IFIP Silver Core Awardee.