Nikil Dutt is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at

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. Professor Dutt's research interests are in

embedded systems An embedded system is a specialized 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 em ...

electronic design automation Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing Electronics, electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools wo ...

, computer architecture,

optimizing compilers An optimizing compiler is a compiler designed to generate code that is optimized in aspects such as minimizing program execution time, memory usage, storage size, and power consumption. Optimization is generally implemented as a sequence of opt ...

, system specification techniques,

distributed systems Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different computer network, networked computers. The components of a distribu ...

, and

formal methods In computer science, formal methods are mathematics, mathematically rigorous techniques for the formal specification, specification, development, Program analysis, analysis, and formal verification, verification of software and computer hardware, ...

Biography

Born and raised in Gangtok, Sikkim, India, Dutt received his Ph.D. in

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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 and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from the

Birla Institute of Technology and Science The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a private deemed university in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. BITS Pilani was one of the first s ...

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, India in 1980, an M.S. in computer science from the

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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

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''Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems'' (TECS) and of ''

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Transactions on VLSI 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, 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 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a Burlington, Massachusetts (San Francisco, California until 2008) based publisher specializing in computer science and engineering content. Since 1984, Morgan Kaufmann has been publishing contents on information te ...

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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