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Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

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<strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012<br />

ers, low-density structures tissue scaffolds; methods and<br />

processes for the design <strong>of</strong> products and systems in domains<br />

including, but not limited to: aerospace, automotive and manufacturing<br />

systems<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: Computer-aided geometric modeling; solid modeling;<br />

design theory and methodology; product families and product<br />

architecture; engineering design education research<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation<br />

COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS<br />

ENGINEERING<br />

Name: Peter Athanas<br />

Department: Electrical and Computer <strong>Engineering</strong><br />

Office Phone: 540-392-7250<br />

E-mail: athanas@vt.edu<br />

Specialty: Reconfigurable Computing Architectures, Adaptive<br />

Computing Machines, Hardware-S<strong>of</strong>tware Co-Design, Rapid<br />

Prototyping<br />

Applications: Application <strong>of</strong> reconfigurable and adaptive computing<br />

techniques to applications in wireless communications, autonomous<br />

systems, reconfigurable co, mputing architectures,<br />

information security, and trust in computing<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: Computer architecture; VLSI design; signal processing;<br />

algorithm design<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,<br />

DARPA, Office <strong>of</strong> Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory,<br />

Harris Corporation, AMD<br />

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE<br />

see also Computers-Design / Architecture, J. Paul<br />

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE<br />

Name: Cameron D. Patterson<br />

Department: Electrical and Computer <strong>Engineering</strong><br />

Office Phone: 540-231-8397<br />

FAX: 540-231-3362<br />

E-mail: cdp@vt.edu<br />

Specialty: High Performance Computing, Algorithms for Synthesizing,<br />

Simulating and Implementing Digital Circuits, Platformbased<br />

Digital Design, Rapid Prototyping <strong>of</strong> Digital Hardware<br />

Applications: High speed encryption; field upgradeable hardware;<br />

applied digital signal processing; distributed, embedded systems;<br />

radio astronomy; s<strong>of</strong>twater defined radio<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: Hardware-based algorithm acceleration; hardware/<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tware codesign; field-programmable gate array technology;<br />

reconfigurable computing; computational number theory; architecture<br />

extensions for secure computing; lightweight EDA tools<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: DARPA, National Science Foundation,<br />

Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory,<br />

Missile Defense Agency<br />

COMPUTER DESIGN<br />

see Computers-Design / Architecture, J. Paul<br />

COMPUTER ENGINEERING<br />

see also Computers, Midkiff<br />

Computer Science, Feng<br />

COMPUTER ENGINEERING<br />

Name: Michael S. Hsiao<br />

Department: Electrical and Computer <strong>Engineering</strong><br />

Office Phone: 540-231-9254<br />

FAX: 540-231-3362<br />

E-mail: mhsiao@vt.edu<br />

URL: www.ece.vt.edu/mhsiao<br />

Specialty: Design, Test, Verification and Diagnosis <strong>of</strong> Hardware<br />

and S<strong>of</strong>tware Systems; Formal Methods and Hybrid Methods<br />

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