Massoud Pedram received a B.S. degree in EE from Caltech in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC-Berkeley in 1991. He then joined the EE department of USC where he is currently a professor. Dr. Pedram has served on the technical program committee of many EDA conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, and DATE.  He served as the Technical Chair and General Chair of the ISLPED in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He has published four books and more than 300 technical papers. His research has received a number of awards including two ICCD Best Papers, two DAC Best Papers, and an IEEE T-VLSI Best Paper.  He is a recipient of the NSF's Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award (1996).  Dr. Pedram is a Fellow of the IEEE, VP of Publications for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and an AE of the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design. His current work focuses on devel­oping design methodologies and techniques for low power electronics and timing, power, and temperature analysis of CMOS VLSI circuits. 

• Charge-Recycling MTCMOS: Circuit Techniques and Design Automation Algorithms : Multi-threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) technology provides low leakage and high performance operation by utilizing high speed, low Vth transistors for  logic cells and low leakage, high Vth devices as sleep transistors. Sleep transistors disconnect logic...
• More Moore: Manufacturing and Design Challenges and Solutions for Late-Silicon Age and Beyond : A key challenge in designing integrated circuits that use nanoscale devices is increase in parameter variability and leakage currents. As a result of dopant fluctuations, statistical process variations and leakage currents, the availa...
• System-Wide Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling in Battery-Powered Embedded Systems : This talk presents an intra-process dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique targeted toward applications running on an embedded system platform. To enhance the amount of the CPU energy saving by DVFS, a technique called “workload...