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ACEED 2003

Austin Conference on Energy-Efficient Design 2003

February 24-26, 2003
Austin, Texas


Speakers Bios

 

Keynote Speakers

  Dr. Roger Schmidt, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Thermal Architect for X, I, P, and Z Series, Chair of Cooling Council
  Dr. Roger R. Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Academy of Technology Member and ASME Fellow, has over 25 years experience in engineering and engineering management in the thermal design of IBM’s large scale computers. He has led development teams in cooling mainframes, client/servers, parallel processors and test equipment utilizing such cooling mediums as air, water, and refrigerants. He has published more than 50 technical papers and holds 33 patents in the area of electronic cooling. He is a member of ASME’s Heat Transfer Division and an active member of the K-16 Electronic Cooling Committee. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Packaging. He has taught extensively over the past 20 years Mechanical Engineering courses for prospective Professional Engineers and has given seminars on electronic cooling at a number of universities.
   
  Kazuaki Yazawa, Chief Thermal Engineer, Mobile Network Company, Sony Corporation, Semiconductor Division, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Kazuaki Yazawa received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Chiba University, Japan, in 1980. He was a visiting researcher at University of Minnesota from September 1999 to August 2001. Mr. Yazawa has over 21 years of mechanical and thermal engineering experience working on various consumer products at Sony Corporation. Currently, he is the Chief Thermal Engineer working in research and development of thermal packaging technology for VAIO computers. In addition, he has been actively working on the Cell processor as part of a Sony/Toshiba/IBM partnership since October 2001.
   
 

Invited Guest Speakers

  Michael Rosenfield, Lab Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
  Michael Rosenfield is currently Director of the Austin Research Lab focusing on high performance VLSI design and tools, system level power analysis, and new system architectures. His previous position was Senior Manager of VLSI Design and Architecture at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY where he and his team were involved in high performance microprocessor VLSI design for IBM Server Group and Microelectronics, tools, methodologies, and commonality as well as power-aware microarchitecture, circuits/technology co-design, performance analysis, exploratory microarchitectures, and advanced compiler design. Previously, he has held management positions at Research in parallel communication architecture and in advanced lithography. In 1993, he was the technical assistant to the Research VP of Systems, Technology, and Science. He has a Ph.D and M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Vermont.
   
  Dr. Jan M. Rabaey, University of California at Berkeley
  Jan M. Rabaey received the EE and PhD degrees in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, respectively in 1978 and 1983. From 1983 till 1985, he was connected to the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 till 1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium, and in 1987, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pavia (Italy) and Waseda University (Japan). He was the associate chair of the EECS Dept. at Berkeley from 1999 till 2002, and is currently the Scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of the GigaScale Silicon Research Center (GSRC). He is an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems. This includes the analysis and optimization of communication algorithms and networking protocols, the study of low energy implementation architectures and circuits, and the supporting design automation environments.
   
  Dr. Mary Jane Irwin, University of Penn State
  Mary Jane Irwin received the M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in computer science from The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Irwin has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977 where she is a distinguished professor of the Computer Science and Engineering. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of computer architecture, VLSI systems design, and low power systems design. Her research is currently supported by NSF, the DARPA/MARCO Gigascale Silicon Research Center, and the PA Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse. She has graduated more than twenty PhD students since 1987. Dr. Irwin was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995 and a Fellow of ACM in 1996. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Chalmers University, Sweden in 1997 and the Penn State Engineering Society Premier Research Award in 2001. Dr. Irwin is an active member of several professional computing societies serving on both the ACM/SIGARCH Board of Directors and the ACM/SIGDA Advisory Board, is an elected member of the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors, and is an appointed member (and current chair) of NSF/CISE’s Advisory Committee. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Transaction on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems. Dr. Irwin has also served in leadership roles for several major conferences including general chair of the 1996 Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), general co-chair of the 1998 CRA Conference at Snowbird (the biannual meeting of computer science and engineering department heads and government leaders), general chair of the 36th Design Automation Conference, and general co-chair of the 2002 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design.
   
  Dr. David Albonesi, University of Rochester
  Dave Albonesi is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He worked 10 years at IBM and Prime Computer before pursuing a PhD and an academic career. He received an NSF CAREER Award and an IBM Faculty Partnership Award. His current research interests are in high performance and power efficient uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures.
   
 

Technical Session Speakers

  Dr. Marios C. Papaefthymiou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Marios Papaefthymiou was born and raised in Athens, Greece. After attending the National Technical University of Athens for 2 years, he continued his undergraduate studies at California Institute of Technology, from where he received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988. Marios went on to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from where he obtained his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1990 and 1993, respectively. His dissertation research investigated efficient algorithms for the timing analysis and optimization of level-clocked circuitry.

After a 3-year term as Assistant Professor at Yale University, Marios joined the University of Michigan, where he is currently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory. His research interests encompass a broad spectrum of issues in computer system design with a current emphasis on low energy design. Among other distinctions, he has received a Best Paper Award at the 1995 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, a First Prize in the VLSI Design Contest of the 2001 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, an ARO Young Investigator Award, Career and ITR Awards from NSF, and a number of IBM Partnership Awards.

Marios is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on the Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. Among other conferences and workshops, he has served as General Chair and Technical Program Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems and as Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.

   
 

 

 

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