Dr. Austin Rovinski

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Austin Rovinski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University. He earned his Ph.D., Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Before joining NYU in Fall 2023, Austin spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University. His research interests span areas of chip design, computer architecture, and electronic design automation, with a particular focus on creating fast, high-quality EDA frameworks and prototyping next-generation chiplet-based systems. He has made substantial contributions to agile hardware design methodologies and was a founding member of the OpenROAD project, where he served as a design advisor leading the development of the OpenROAD RTL-to-GDS flow. While at Cornell, he developed an optoelectronic interconnect system utilizing 2.5D packaging and designed domain-specific accelerators for EDA. Austin has received several accolades for his work, including the IEEE Micro Top Picks honor in 2015, the Michigan EECS Outstanding Research Award in 2016, and a paper nomination for the LAD in 2024.

Research Interests

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

2022-03-01 — 2023-07-01

Cornell University • Ithaca, NY

Conducted research on optoelectronic interconnect systems using 2.5D packaging.

Assistant Professor

2023-09-01 — Present

New York University • New York, NY

Teaching and conducting research in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Awards

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IEEE Micro Top Picks

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Michigan EECS Outstanding Research Award

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LAD Paper Nomination

Requirements for New York University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from accredited institution Strong background in biological, chemical, physical, or mathematical sciences
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Specialization Notes

Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.