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Lizy John holds the Truchard Foundation Chair Engineering at the Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993 and joined the faculty at UT Austin in 1996. Her research interests include computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation, benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing. Professor John's research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Consortium, DARPA, and numerous industry partners including AMD, Oracle, and Intel. She has received several awards including the NSF CAREER Award in 1996 and the UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award in 2001. Professor John has contributed significantly to her field with 15 U.S. patents, 16 published book chapters, and over 300 research papers. She has authored and edited several influential books in digital systems design and serves as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE MICRO. An active member of IEEE and ACM, she was named Fellow of IEEE in 2009 and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Joined the faculty in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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