Primary Research Areas: VLSI system design VLSI design automation Hardware algorithms Computer architecture Emergency Management and Homeland Security Biomedical information processing. Other areas of research interest include parallel processing, data compression, and VLSI for vision, video, image processing and pattern recognition Current Projects: IGERT: SKINS. Click Here for Details Application of economic models and game theory to VLSI design, resource and emergency management for homeland security applications Power optimization at architectural and circuit levels in computer design Development of information processing methods for smart skin interface Low power synthesis of data paths and programmable cores in SOC systems Task partitioning and scheduling in networked heterogeneous computing clusters