Nikil D. Dutt (F) received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, and is currently a Chancellor's Professor
at the University of California, Irvine, with academic appointments in the CS,
EECS, and Cognitive Sciences departments. His research interests are in embedded
systems, electronic design automation (EDA), computer systems architecture and
software, and brain-inspired architectures and computing. He received numerous
best paper awards at conferences and is coauthor of 7 books. Dutt previously
served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODAES and as Associate Editor for ACM TECS
and IEEE TVLSI.  He has served on the steering, organizing, and program committees
of several premier EDA and Embedded System Design conferences and workshops,
and serves or has served on the advisory boards of ACM SIGBED, ACM SIGDA,
ACM TECS and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL).
He is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award.