Biographical sketch of author

Vojin G. Oklobdzija Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis, 3007 Kemper Hall, Davis, California 95616 (vojin@ece.ucdavis.edu). Dr. Oklobdzija is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He received a Dipl. Ing. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Belgrade in 1971, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. From 1982 to 1991 he was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he made contributions to the development of RISC processors and supercomputer design. In the course of this work, he obtained several patents, the most notable one on register renaming, with John Cocke and Greg Grohosky, which enabled a new generation of computers. From 1988 to 1990 he was an IBM visiting faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1991, he has been a professor at the University of California and has served as a consultant to many companies, including Sun Microsystems, Bell Laboratories, Hitachi, Fujitsu, SONY, Intel, and Siemens Corporation, where he was the principal architect for the TriCore processor. He holds 11 U.S. patents and seven international patents, with six patents currently pending. Dr. Oklobdzija serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and IEEE Micro. He served for six years on the ISSCC program committee, among numerous other conference committees. He was a General Chairman of the 13th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic. Dr. Oklobdzija has published more than 140 papers, three books, and dozens of book chapters in the areas of circuits and technology, computer arithmetic, and computer architecture. He has given more than 150 invited talks and short courses in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Australia, China, and Japan.