Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Hardware Design
Name: Chao Huang
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone: 540-231-5961
FAX: 540-231-3362
E-mail: chuang@vt.edu
Specialty: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design,
Embedded Systems, Computer Architectures, CMOS VLSI
Circuit Design
Applications: Distributed architectures for memory-intensive
applications; computation-unit integrated memories for highperformance
electronic circuits and systems; computer-aided
design algorithms in high-level synthesis; energy-delay product
reduction
Expertise: Distributed architectures of computers and electronic
systems; electronic design automation methodologies; memory
issues in embedded systems; CMOS VLSI circuit design
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Low-power, Wearable Computers, Electronic Textiles
Name: Tom Martin
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone: 540-231-1739
FAX: 540-231-8292
E-mail: tlmartin@vt.edu
URL: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/martin.html
Specialty: Mobile/Ubiquitous Computing, Low Power Computer
System Design, VLSI Systems, Wearable Computers, Electronic
Textiles
Applications: Extending the battery life of handheld, notebook,
and wearable computers; wearable computing applications for
industrial and personal use; analyzing the power consumption
of hardware/software systems; power-based computer security
attacks
Expertise: System-level approach to power management including
application software, operating system software, hardware
subsystems, and power sources, wearable computer design
and applications
Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation
COMPUTER SCIENCE
see also Computational Science, Ramakrishnan
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Name: Godmar Back
Department: Computer Science
Office Phone: 540-231-3046
FAX: 540-231-9218
E-mail: gback@cs.vt.edu
URL: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gback
Specialty: Operating Systems, Runtime Systems and Libraries,
Language Virtual Machines, Hardware Virtual Machines,
Cloud Computing, Web Architectures, Extension Architectures,
High-performance Computing, Software Engineering, Software
Visualization, Computer Science Education
Applications: Client-side and server-side web technology; widgets
and mash-ups (AJAX); parallel applications and sparse
computational methods; library information technology
Expertise: Systems, language design, and building in all of the
above areas
Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Institute for Museum and
Library Services (IMLS), Coverity, Inc.
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