Deming Chen

Dr. Deming Chen obtained his BS in computer science from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995, and his MS and PhD in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He worked as a software engineer between 1995-1999 and 2001-2002. He has been an assistant professor in the ECE department of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 2005. He is a research assistant professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and an affiliate assistant professor in the CS department. His current research interests include nano-systems design and nano-centric CAD techniques, FPGA synthesis and physical design, high-level synthesis, microarchitecture and SoC design under parameter variation, and reconfigurable computing.

He is a technical committee member for a series of conferences and symposia, including FPGA'06-10, ASPDAC'07-10, ICCD'07-09, ISQED'09-10, DAC'09-10, ICCAD'09, DATE'10, etc. He also served as session chair, panelist, panel organizer or moderator for some of these and other conferences. He is a TPC subcommittee chair for ASPDAC'09-10 and a CAD Track co-chair for ISVLSI'09 and ISCAS'10. He is an associated editor for TVLSI (IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems), TCAS-I (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I), JCSC (Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers), and JOLPE (Journal of Low Power Electronics). He obtained the Achievement Award for Excellent Teamwork from Aplus Design Technologies in 2001, the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from UIUC in 2007, the NSF CAREER Award in 2008, the ASPDAC'09 Best Paper Award, and the SASP'09 Best Paper Award. He is included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in 2008.