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)

Ryan first came to Brown University from West Chester, PA as an undergraduate student in engineering, and graduated with Honors in the spring of 2008 with a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering. He returned to Brown as a M.Sc. student in the fall of 2008, but has since decided to continue his studies as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Brown. He is currently advised by Professor Sherief Reda. Ryan's principal research areas include thermal modeling, management, and tool development for current and future nano-scale integrated circuit technologies. In 2009, a paper of his was accepted by the Design Automation Conference (DAC), located in San Francisco, CA, where he is scheduled to speak in the summer of 2009. Ryan is also an avid musician, having performed as principal cellist for numerous orchestras before and during his Brown career, including the Brown University Orchestra.

A Nowroz came to Brown University in Fall 2009 as a PhD  student. She completed her MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in Fall 2008. She finished her undergraduate degree in Boston University in Fall 2006. She taught as a Lecturer for two semesters in Bangladesh. Her concentration is VLSI. She is currently working under Professor Sherief Reda in various research projects. 

Shiqing came to Brown University from Singapore as an undergraduate in 2006. He is currently pursuing a dual degree program in Electrical Engineering (ScB) and Economics (AB) and is looking to graduate in the spring of 2010. He has been working under Professor Sherief Reda since the spring of 2009. His primary research focus involves the thermal modeling and characterization of microprocessors. He is also an active member of Tau Beta Pi – Rhode Island Alpha Chapter, China Care and is currently serving as Technology Chair in IEEE, Brown Chapter.