Deming Chen

Dr. Deming Chen obtained his BS from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995 and his PhD from University of California at Los Angeles in 2005 all from the Computer Science department. He worked as a software engineer between 1995-1999 and 2001-2002. He joined the ECE department of UIUC as a faculty member in 2005. He has been actively publishing in high-level and logic synthesis, low power design, FPGA design and synthesis, and design and CAD with nanotechnology in various leading CAD conferences and journals. 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. Several 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 CAD for FPGA, nano-systems design and nano-centric synthesis, microprocessor architecture design under process/parameter variation, and reconfigurable computing. He is a technical committee member for FPGA'06-08, ASPDAC'07-08, ISCAS'07-08, ICCD'07-08, and FPL'08. He is a session chair for ICCD'05, ASPDAC'07, ICCAD'07, and FPGA'08. He is a subcommittee chair for ASPDAC technical committee starting 2009. He obtained the Achievement Award for Excellent Teamwork from Aplus Design Technologies in 2001, the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from UIUC in 2007, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2008.