Dr. Lizy Kurian John

is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at 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, IBM, 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 is a member of IEEE and its Computer Society and ACM and ACM SIGARCH. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.