Presenter

Jason D. Bakos is an associate professor and leads the Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Computing Group at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on high-performance and energy-efficient computing with exotic and emerging technologies such as reconfigurable logic devices, graphical and digital signal processors, and the automata processor. His group is best known for their work in mapping phylogenetic inference and sparse matrix applications on FPGAs. Dr. Bakos’s group has a history of collaboration with platform and processor manufacturers Convey Computer, GiDEL, Annapolis Micro Systems, Advantech, and Texas Instruments. Dr. Bakos holds two patents and has published over 30 refereed publications in computer architecture and high performance computing as well as a textbook on ARM embedded system programming. He received the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and is winner of two DAC student design contests. He is currently serving as associate editor for ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), as permanent program committee member for the IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) and IEEE Symposium on Application-specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP), and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.