The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Broad Research Area: Hardware / Architecture, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Theory / Algorithms

Research Interests:

Broadly speaking, my research areas fall in Computer Engineering which is at the intersection of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In this domain, my research focuses on nearly all aspects of digital VLSI circuits and systems design, leading to design automation and computer-aided design. These two areas ultimately require modeling, simulation, and mostly importantly, developing algorithms for optimization.

Topics within the circuits area include: performance analysis and optimization of nanoscale digital VLSI circuits, power optimization and low power design, logic synthesis and verification, digital system testing and design of novel digital circuit architectures such as threshold logic. Performance analysis and optimization also deals with statistical modeling of delay and power to account for process variations. A large part of my work is aimed at analytical work and algorithms with certain provable properties (as opposed to heuristics). In addition, I am also strongly interested in VLSI chip design leading to fabrication, and actual testing.

At the system level, my current research is focusing on energy management of portable, battery operated systems, system level dynamic power and thermal management of multi-core processors and design of multi-core processors.

I direct the VLSI Electronic Design Automation (VEDA) lab in the Computer Science and Engineering Dept at the Arizona State University. Students in this lab conducts research that addresses real-world challenges faced by chipmakers including manufacturing process variations and power/thermal constraints. They also work on technologies that show promise in the future like fuel-cell battery hybrids, and techniques for threshold logic synthesis. Our research covers multiple disciplines including electrical engineering, computer science and engineering, heat transfer, genetics, and optimization techniques.

Please visit http://veda.eas.asu.edu for further details and research publications.

Finally, my greatest source of joy is to work with graduate students and to joinlty create outstanding science. I am also deeply interested in entrepreneurial research and strongly encourage my students to build systems in addition to doing sound theoretical work.

Now a bit about me:

I am Consortium for Embedded Systems Chair Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. I received the B.Math (Honors) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1976 and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1980 and 1985, respectively. During 1985-1992 I was on the faculty of the EE-Systems department of the University of Southern California. From 1992 to 2005 I was a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ., and the Director of the NSF UA/ASU Center for Low Power Electronics. I became the director for the Consortium for Embedded Systems at ASU in 2006.

Contact Information:

Sarma Vrudhula

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Brickyard Suite Room 486
699 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281

http://veda.eas.asu.edu/lab

(480) 965-4748

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