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I am a Principal Engineer in the Xilinx Research Labs investigating various aspects of system design for FPGAs.

Previously I was a Product Architect working on High Level Synthesis.

You can reach me at firstname.lastname@xilinx.com

Education

University of Maryland, College Park

University Honors

• B.S. Electrical Engineering 1998 Departmental Honors
• B.S. Computer Science 1998 Outstanding Graduate

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Dr. Edward Lee

Thesis: Actor-Oriented Metaprogramming

• M.S. Electrical Engineering 2002
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2004

Research Interests

• High-level Synthesis for FPGAs
• FPGA applications focusing on computer vision and data center
• FPGA platforms and system infrastructure
• Component-based modeling and design of embedded systems
• Design tools enabling refinement from models to implementation
• Formal system description (semantics, type theory, static analysis)
• The distribution of publication-quality research software

Projects

• Parallel programming for FPGAs:

A Free and Open Source introductory textbook focused on using HLS for FPGA design.

• Vivado HLS
• Vivado HLS synthesizes C/C++ and SystemC into efficient pipelined FPGA implementations across a wide variety of applications, including video processing, wireless, control systems, medical imaging, and the data center.
• Linux on PowerPC, Microblaze, and ARM processors embedded in FPGAs.
  • Ptolemy II
  • Ptolemy II is an component-based system modeling tool based on multiple models of computation in system design.
  • Vergil
  • Vergil is a block-diagram user interface for Ptolemy II.
  • Copernicus
  • Copernicus generates code from Ptolemy II models using component specialization.
  • Diva
  • Diva is a Java-based infrastructure for system visualization and as basis for graphical user interfaces.
  • PinballRedemption Machine Project
  • A student-designed and built pinball redemption machine.