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 joined the ECE department of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as a faculty member in 2005. Several of his publications in FPGA synthesis and power estimation have been widely cited in the research community. Some of his research results represent the state-of-the-art performance- and low power-driven synthesis techniques. His work also optimally solved a series of problems encountered in high-level and logic synthesis. Some of his research ideas have already been incorporated in commercial software that is distributed to many customers of leading companies (e.g., Altera and Magma).
His current research interests include nano-systems design and nano-centric CAD techniques, FPGA synthesis and physical design, high-level synthesis, microprocessor architecture design under process/parameter variation, and reconfigurable computing. He is a technical committee member for a series of conferences and symposia, including FPGA'06-09, ASPDAC'07-10, ICCD'07-09, ISQED'09, DAC'09, SASP'09, ICCAD'09, 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. He is an associated editor for TVLSI (IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems) 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, and the ASPDAC Best Paper Award in 2009. He is included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in 2008.