Marios Papaefthymiou is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also co-founder and Chief Scientist of Cyclos Semiconductor, a startup company specializing in energy-efficient chips for power-critical applications.
Papaefthymiou's research addresses a broad spectrum of problems in computer design with an emphasis on architectures and design methodologies for energy-efficient high-performance computers. Papaefthymiou is also active in the field of parallel and distributed computing. Together with his students, he has published several invited and award-winning papers, including a Best Paper at the 1995 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, and a First Prize paper in the VLSI Design Contest of the 2001 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference. Among other distinctions, Papaefthymiou has received faculty recognition awards from Yale College, the EECS Department at U. Michigan, and the Graduate School at U. Michigan, a Young Investigator Award from ARO, Career and ITR Awards from NSF, and several IBM Partnership Awards.
Papaefthymiou has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on the Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits , IEEE Transactions on Computers , and IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. Among several other conferences and workshops, he has served as General Chair and Program Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems and as Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design , the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe , and the International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation .
Prof. Marios Papaefthymiou