Sherief Reda is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Engineering, Brown University. Professor Reda received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering (and science) from University of California, San Diego in 2006. Prior to that he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1998 and 2000 respectively. His research interests include design automation and test of integrated circuits, reconfigurable computing and embedded systems, organization and architecture of computational systems, and synergies between biological and computational systems. Prof. Reda has over 40 refereed conference and journal papers in his research areas. He served as a member of technical program committees for many IEEE/ACM conferences including ICCAD, ASPDAC, GLSVLSI, and SLIP. Professor Reda received a number of awards and acknowledgments, including a best paper award in DATE 2002, a hot article in Operations Research letters in 2004, a first place award in ISPD VLSI placement contest in 2005, and best paper nominations in ICCAD 2005 and ASPDAC 2008. Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Chaka is a second year Ph.D. student

Roto Le was born in Hatinh, the middle land of Vietnam. He came to study in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, from 2002 to 2007 where he got an honor B. Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications from Hanoi University of Technology. From Fall 2007, Roto Le is a VEF Fellow for his Ph.D. study in the Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering Group of the Division of Engineering, Brown University under co-advising of Professor Sherief Reda and Professor Iris Bahar. His principal research interests include Computer Architecture, Reconfigurable Computing and VLSI Systems. Currently he is exploring the potential benefits of 3D integration technology to VLSI systems.

Ryan is a first year M.Sc. student.