  | Dr. Gabriel Robins Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740, USArobins@cs.virginia.edu |
at the University of Virginia, where he received an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, a University Teaching Fellowship
, an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award
, a Faculty Mentor Award
, a two-year early promotion/tenure, the Walter N. Munster Endowed Chair, and the Virginia Engineering Foundation Faculty Appreciation Award. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 at UCLA, where he received an IBM Fellowship and a Distinguished Teaching Award
. Gabe's primary area of research is VLSI CAD, and he co-authored a book on high-performance routing. His additional research interests include algorithms, bioinformatics, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and computational biology. Gabe consults as an Expert Witness in major software and intellectual property litigations. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. He was a member of the Army Science Board, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Army on science, technology, and research, and is an alumni of the Defense Science Study Group, an advisory panel to the U.S. Department of Defense. He also served on the Navy Future Study panel of the National Academy of Sciences. Gabe was General Chair of the ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop (1996), and co-founded the International Symposium on Physical Design (1997). He served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE International ASIC Conference, the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, and the Canadian Workshop on Field-Programmable Devices, and the Editorial Board of the IEEE Book Series. He is a member of ACM, SIGDA, SIGACT, and IEEE.
Gabe has founded the UVa Computer Science Web Team and the UVa Computer Science Museum. He also created the Computer Science Lounge, and produced the Department of Computer Science brochure. His hobbies include ballroom dancing, SCUBA diving, gardening, comic books, archery, weight lifting, roller skating, films, and photography.
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