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Biographical Sketch
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Nihar R. Mahapatra received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India, in 1990 and the M.S. and then the Ph.D. degree
(major: Electrical Engineering, minor:
Computer & Information
Science) from the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities, in 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical &
Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Prior to
that, he was on the faculty of the Computer Science & Engineering
and Electrical
& Computer Engineering departments at the University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York. His research interests include computer
architecture & VLSI and parallel and high-performance computing. In
these areas, he has published more than 50 papers in leading refereed
journals, conferences, and workshops, and has also contributed invited
papers. A paper he co-authored was nominated for the best paper award
at HPCA 2005. He has given invited research talks in academia,
industry, conferences, and workshops. He is a recipient of the Riefler
Award from the University at Buffalo and his Ph.D. dissertation was
nominated for the ACM doctoral dissertation award from the University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has received grants from the National
Science Foundation, Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, and IBM. He is actively engaged in professional
society activities as organizer, program committee member, and
reviewer. Some of these activities include: NSF proposal review panel
member in computer architecture; processor architecture track co-chair
for ICCD
2003; session chair for ICCD 2004, SOCC 2004, ICCD 2003,
and ASIC/SOC
2002; and program committee member for SOCC
(2005, 2004, 2003, and 2002), ICCD (2004, 2003, and 1997), GLSVLSI (2004
and 2003), IPDPS
2001, HiPC 1999, and
other conferences.
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