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Ken Mai received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is currently a Principal Systems Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include high-performance circuit design, secure IC design, radiation hardening design, reconfigurable computing, and computer architecture. Ken has received multiple awards including the NSF CAREER award, the George Tallman Ladd Research Award, and the Eta Kappa Nu Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and IEEE. His key research focus involves the adaptation and reinvention of circuit designs to circumvent technology constraints, addressing challenges such as interconnect delay, device leakage, and device mismatch while targeting emerging applications like sensor networks and computational biology. Ken is particularly interested in developing efficient, high-performance digital blocks for future technologies and creating tools to export VLSI-level design information to architectural-level design.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Work in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering focusing on circuit design and related research.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.