bio

Majid Sarrafzadeh (M'87, SM'92,F'96) (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~majid) received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in 1982, 1984, and 1987 respectively from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. In 2000, he joined the Computer Science Department at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His recent research interests lie in the area of Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing, VLSI CAD, and design and analysis of algorithms. Dr. Sarrafzadeh is a Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to "Theory and Practice of VLSI Design". He received an NSF Engineering Initiation award, two distinguished paper awards in ICCAD, and the best paper award in DAC. He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences in the area of VLSI Design and CAD, including ICCAD, DAC, EDAC, ISPD, FPGA, and DesignCon. He has served as committee chairs of a number of these conferences. He is on the executive committee/steering committee of several conferences such as ICCAD, ISPD, and ISQED.

Professor Sarrafzadeh has published approximately 250 papers, is a co-editor of the book "Algorithmic Aspects of VLSI Layout" (1994 by World Scientific), and co-author of the books "An Introduction to VLSI Physical Design" (1996 by McGraw Hill) and "Modern Placement Techniques" (2003, Kluwer) Dr. Sarrafzadeh is on the editorial board of the VLSI Design Journal, an Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Design Automation (TODAES) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD).

Dr. Sarrafzadeh has collaborated with many industries in the past fifteen years including IBM and Motorola and many CAD industries and was the architect of the physical design subsystem of Monterey Design Systems’ main product. He is a co-founder of Hier Design, Inc.

EDITORIAL

1 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of ICAS (TCAD) July 1993-2003

2 Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 2000-2005

3 Editorial board, Journal of Embedded Computing (JEC) by Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2003-present

4 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2003-present

5 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, 2003-2005

6 Editorial Board of JOLPE - Journal of Low Power Electronics.

7 Editorial Committee of the Journal Engineering Letters at at: http://www.engineeringletters.com

8 Editor, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (by UNESCO) 2000-present

9 Advisory board, The CSI Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (CSIJCSE) 1999-present

10 Editorial board, VLSI Design, 1995-2000

11 Co-editor-in-chief, The International Journal of High-Speed Electronics, 1995-1999

12 Editorial board, International Journals of Computer-Aided VLSI Design, 1989-1991

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

1 Program committee of the First IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, March 1991

2 Program committee of the Second Great Lakes Computer Science Conference, November 1991

3 Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-92)

4 Program committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-93)

5 Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-aided Design (ICCAD-93)

6 Program committee of the European Design Automation Conference (EDAC-94)

7 Program committee chair (layout and routing) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-94)

8 Program committee chair (layout and routing) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-95)

9 Program committee co-chair (CAD) of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-96)

10 Best-Paper-Award committee of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 1996

11 Program committee of the 1997 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI-97), University of Illinois, Urbana

12 Program committee of the 1997 European Design and Test Conference (ED & TC-97), Paris, France, March 1997

13 Program committee (CAD) of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-97)

14 Program committee chair of the 1997 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD-97)

15 Panelist for the 1997 NSF CAREER Awards (subject: Design Automation)

16 Best-paper-Award committee of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 1997

17 Program committee of the 1998 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI-98), Lafayette, LA

18 Program committee (CAD) of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-98)

19 Conference chair of the 1998 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)

20 Best-Paper-Award committee of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 1998

21 Program committee of the 1999 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI-99), Ann Arbor, MI

22 Program committee of the 1999 Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, April 11-13, Tucson, AZ

23 Program committee (CAD) of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-99)

24 Program committee of the Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing (WoRC’99) held in conjunction with PACT’99, October 12-16, Newport Beach, CA

25 Program committee (place and route) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-99) Nov 7-11, San Jose, CA

26 Best-Paper-Award committee of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 1999

27 General co-chair of the 2000 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI-2000) Chicago, IL

28 Program committee of the International Symposium on Physical Design, April 2000, San Diego, CA

29 Chair of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) April 2000, San Diego, CA

30 Program committee of the 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, February 28-29, San Diego, CA

31 Steering, special session chair and program committee of the Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP-2000) San Diego, CA

32 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED-2000) March 21-22 2000, San Jose, CA

33 Program committee chair (routing subcommittee) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-2000) Nov 5-9, San Jose, CA

34 Best-Paper-Award committee, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 2000

35 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED 2001) March 2000, San Jose, CA

36 Chair of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) April 2001

37 Program committee of the International Conference on VLSI Design, January 3-7, 2001, Bangalore, India

38 Program committee of the Advanced Research in VLSI, March 14-16, 2001, Utah

39 Program committee of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) June 2001, Las Vegas

40 Best-Paper-Award committee of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 2001

41 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED) March 2001, San Jose, CA

42 Chair of the routing committee of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) November 2001, San Jose, CA

43 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED) March 2002, San Jose, CA

44 Program committee of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) June 2002, New Orleans, LA

45 Chair of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) April 2002, CA

46 Tutorial chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) November 2002, San Jose, CA

47 Executive committee of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD 2002)

48 Program committee of the Asia-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2003) Japan

49 Program committee of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2003)

50 Executive committee and the program vice-chair of the International Conference on Computer- Aided Design (ICCAD 2003)

51 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED 2003) March 2003, San Jose, CA

52 Program committee of DesignCon 2003, Santa Clara, CA

53 Program committee of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2003)

54 Technical program committee for the CODES-ISSS'03 Merged Conference, October 1-3, Newport Beach, CA

55 Advisory board of the International Program Committee (IPC) for CST 2003 (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/cancun/cst.htm )

56 Program committee of the Asia-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2004) January 27-30, Minato-Mirai Yokohama

57 Executive committee and program chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD 2004)

58 Steering committee of the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED 2003), March 2004, San Jose, CA

59 Technical program committee for the CODES-ISSS'04 Merged Conference September 8-10, Stockholm, Sweden

60 Program committee of the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2005) Monterey, CA

61 Distinguished ISQED member (in the recognition of outstanding performance and lasting contributions to ISQED since the inception)

62 Program committee member on the Third Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP 2004) September 8-10, Stockholm, Sweden

63 Program committee member of the Design, Automation and Test Conference (DATE 2005) Munich, Germany

64 General chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD 2005).

65 Program Committee member of UbiCare'06, the 1st workshop on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Health Care

66 Program Committee member of Wireless Communications in Medical Applications (WCMA ’07) Omaha, NE

67 Program Committee member of the Seventh IASTED International Conferences on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC 2007)May 31 – June 1, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

68 Program Committee member of Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability, June 25 – 27, 2007, Boston, MA.

69 Program Committee member of WSNHC 2007, the 1^st workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Health Care. June 6, 2007, Braunschweig, Germany.