Sherief Reda
Assistant Professor of Engineering:
Engineering
Phone: +1 401 863 1455
Sherief_Reda@brown.edu
Biography
Sherief Reda is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Engineering, Brown University. Professor Reda received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering (and science) from University of California, San Diego in 2006. Prior to that he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1998 and 2000 respectively. His research interests include design automation and test of integrated circuits, reconfigurable computing and embedded systems, organization and architecture of computational systems, and synergies between biological and computational systems. Professor Reda received a number of awards and acknowledgments, including a best paper award in DATE 2002, a hot article in Operations Research letters in 2004, a first place award in ACM/IEEE ISPD VLSI placement contest in 2005, and best paper nominations in ICCAD 2005 and ASPDAC 2008.
Interests
Current research projects:
- 3D IC yield management and improvement techniques.
- Process variation extraction and modeling for sub-100 nm process technologies.
- Thermal management and performance improvement for multi-core processors.
- Synergies between biological and computational systems.
Degrees
Ph.D.
Awards
- Best Paper Nomination, Asian South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), 2008, "Within-die Process Variations: How Accurately can They Be Statistically Modeled?"
- Best Paper Nomination, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2005 "Architecture and Details of a High Quality, Large-Scale Analytical Placer."
- First Place Award, VLSI placement contest, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2005.
- "Hot'' (most downloaded) article in Operations Research Letters, 2005, "Match Twice and Stitch: A New TSP Tour Construction Heuristic.''
- Best Poster Award, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, 2004, "Match Twice and Stitch: A New TSP Tour Construction Heuristic.''
- Best Poster Award, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, 2003, "Scalable Placement Heuristics for DNA Array Manufacturing.''
- Best Paper Award, Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2002, "Reducing Test Application Time through Test Data Mutation.''
- Cal-(IT)$^2$ fellowship, University of California, San Diego, Fall 2001 -- Spring 2002.
- First rank among all engineering departments in the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1998, with the highest percentile undergraduate accumulative score (92.7%).
Affiliations
- IEEE
- ACM
Teaching
- SP '08: EN160: Design and Implementation of VLSI Systems
- Fall '07: EN2911X: Reconfigurable Computing
- SP '07: EN160: Design and Implementation of VLSI Systems
- Fall '06: EN291 S40: Physical Design of Digitial Integrated Circuits
Funded Research
- Qualcomm corporation
- Brown University, Salomon Award
- Altera corporation (equipment donations)
