Fadi Kurdahi received his PhD from the University of Southern
California in 1987. Since then, he has been a member of the faculty at the Department of
Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCI, where he conducts research in
the areas of Computer Aided Design of VLSI circuits, high-level synthesis,
and design methodology of large scale systems, and serves as the
Associate Director for the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS).
He was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
from 1993 to 1995, Area Editor in IEEE Design and Test for reconfigurable
computing, and served as program chair, general chair or on program
committees of several workshops, symposia and conferences in the area
of CAD, VLSI, and system design. He received the best paper award for
the IEEE Transactions on VLSI in 2002, the best paper award in 2006 at
ISQED, and other distinguished paper awards at DAC, EuroDAC and
ASP-DAC. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.