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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.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Conducted research on optoelectronic interconnect systems using 2.5D packaging.
New York University • New York, NY
Teaching and conducting research in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.