Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech
Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech
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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