Biographical sketches of authors
Iffat H. Kazi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(ihkazi@ece.umn.edu).
Ms. Kazi is a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota,
where she received an M.S. degree, also in electrical engineering, in
1998. She received a B.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering
in 1994 from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,
Dhaka, Bangladesh, and later was a lecturer in its Department of
Computer Science and Engineering. Her main research interests include
parallel processing, dynamic program optimization, and high-performance
computer architecture. She is a student member of the IEEE Computer
Society.
Davis P. Jose Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (electronic mail: jose@cs.umn.edu).
Badis Ben-Hamida
Inxight Software, Inc., 3400 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California
94304. Mr. Ben-Hamida received an M.S. degree in computer science
from the University of Minnesota in 1998.
Christian J. Hescott
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(electronic mail: hesco001@ece.umn.edu). Mr. Hescott received a B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Minnesota in
1999. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in computer engineering
at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include dynamic
and adaptive reconfigurable hardware as well as bio-inspired solutions
for computer architecture.
Chris Kwok
6429 City West Parkway, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344. Mr. Kwok
graduated from the University of Minnesota in June 1999 with an M.S.
degree in computer and information sciences. His areas of interest
include object-oriented programming, Java development, and e-commerce.
Joseph A. Konstan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(electronic mail: konstan@cs.umn.edu). Dr. Konstan is associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of
Minnesota. Since earning the Ph.D. degree in user interface toolkit
technology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993, Dr.
Konstan has worked on a variety of human-computer interaction projects
focused on visualization, multimedia, and information filtering. He is
an ACM lecturer and currently serves as editor of the ACM SIGCHI
Bulletin.
David J. Lilja Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(electronic mail: lilja@ece.umn.edu). Dr. Lilja received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. degree in computer engineering
from Iowa State University in Ames. He is currently an associate
professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute at the University of
Minnesota. He also is a member of the graduate faculty in the program
in computer science and the program in scientific computation, and was
the founding director of graduate studies for the program in computer
engineering. He has served on the program committees of numerous
conferences, is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Computers, and is a distinguished visitor of the IEEE Computer
Society. His main research interests include high-performance computer
architecture, parallel processing, and computer systems performance
analysis, with a special emphasis on the interaction of software and
compilers with the architecture. He is a senior member of the IEEE
Computer Society, a member of the ACM, and is a registered professional
engineer.
Pen-Chung Yew Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(electronic mail: yew@cs.umn.edu). Dr. Yew has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University
of Minnesota since 1994. Previously, he was an associate director of
the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the
University of Illinois. He is an IEEE Fellow. His research interests
include computer architecture, high-performance multiprocessor system
design, and performance evaluation.
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