Dr. Lizy Kurian John

is a Professor and Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UT Austin. She received her Ph. D in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993. Her research interests include high performance processor and memory architectures, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, low power design, reconfigurable architectures, rapid prototyping, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, etc. She has published papers in the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), IEEE Micro Symposium (MICRO), IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture Symposium (HPCA), ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), etc and has a patent for a Field Programmable Memory Cell Array chip. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the State of Texas Advanced Technology program, DARPA, SRC, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Motorola, DELL, AMD and Microsoft Corporations. She is recipient of NSF CAREER award, Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Fellowship, UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (2001), Halliburton, Brown and Root Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award (1999), etc. She has edited 4 books in performance evaluation and workload characterization, and has coauthored 1 book on Digital Systems design. She holds 3 patents and has written over 150 journal and conference publications. She is a Fellow of IEEE. She is a member of ACM, ACM SIGARCH and ACM SIGMICRO. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.

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