Nikil Dutt is a Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at

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. Professor Dutt's research interests are in

embedded systems An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' ...

, electronic design automation,

computer architecture In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the ...

optimizing compilers In computing, an optimizing compiler is a compiler that tries to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program. Common requirements are to minimize a program's execution time, memory footprint, storage size, and power cons ...

, system specification techniques,

distributed systems A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...

, and

formal methods In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, and verification of software and hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the exp ...

Biography

Born and raised in

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, India, Dutt received his Ph.D. in

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

from the

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in 1989. He received a B.E.(Hons) in

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

from the

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has b ...

Pilani Pilani is a small city situated in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, India. Administratively, it forms a part of Jhunjhunu district. The place became popular since the establishment of BITS Pilani.The city is also the home to some of the old ...

, India in 1980, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. In 1989, he joined UC-Irvine as an Assistant Professor of Computer science. He is affiliated with Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC), and the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI).

Academic life

His research has been recognized by Best Paper Awards and Best Paper Award Nominations at several conferences. Dutt currently serves as Associate Editor of Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS) and of

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Transactions on

VLSI Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) ...

Systems (TVLSI). In 2007, he was selected as ACM distinguished scientist and in 2008 an

fellow. He was a keynote speaker at several conferences. Dutt served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) between 2004–2008. He currently lives in

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with his family.

Awards

* 2014. ACM Fellow. : ''For contributions to embedded architecture exploration, and service to electronic design automation and embedded systems.''

Books

* High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design,

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, 1992 * Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-on-Chip: Optimizations and Exploration, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 * Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits
by Sumit Gupta,

Rajesh K. Gupta Rajesh K. Gupta (born 1961) is a computer scientist and engineer, currently the Qualcomm Professor in Embedded Microsystems at University of California, San Diego. His research concerns design and optimization of cyber-physical systems (CPS). He ...

, Nikil Dutt, Alex Nicolau, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 * Functional Validation of Programmable Embedded Architectures: A Top-Down Approach, Springer-Verlag, 2005 * On-chip Communication Architectures: Current Practice, Research and Future Trends, Morgan Kaufmann/

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Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008 * Processor Description Languages: Applications and Methodologies," Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008.

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Computer Engineering Academic Genealogy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutt, Nikil Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Grainger College of Engineering alumni Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni American computer scientists American male writers of Indian descent Computer science writers University of California, Irvine faculty Fellows of the IEEE Formal methods people American academic journal editors 1958 births