About Me

I am, currently, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A.



My research interests at present are in a number of areas that compliment one another and interested colaborators can take a look at my current ideas for research and entrepeneurial projects. The general topics I'm interested in include: Genetic Algorithms, Agent Based Simulation - Acceleration, FPGA CAD and Architecture, Games, and Higher Education.

To see recent topics that I've published, you can take a look at my publications. In many of these efforts, I've collaborated with a number of other great colleagues (not comprehensive - Martin Herbordt, Michel Kinsy, Jose Augusto Nacif, Lesley Shannon, Lindsay Grace, Tobias Becker ).

In the academic year 2017/18, I took a research leave at Boston University to collaborate with Martin Herbordt and Michel Kinsy and their respective labs.

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In 2008 and 2009, I was a Research Associate at Imperial College working with Wayne Luk and George Constantinides. I also worked with Nokia on benchmarking FPGAs and reconfigurable architectures targeting the mobile domain. This benchmark suite is called GroundHog.

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I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2007 under the wing of Jonathan Rose. That work focused on improving Heterogeneous FPGAs. I continued a post doctoral position at the University of Toronto to help manage the release of version 5.0 of the Versatile Place and Route (VPR) CAD system - VPR 5.0. This work is now part of VTR, and this is the work you should consult for the latest academic FPGA software suite. I also received my Master's at the same University researching in cluster computing with Angelos Bilas. Finally, my undergraduate was from the University of Ottawa.

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You can take a look at my first book on college education and advice at: College Questions and Answers.


I am the 4,178,713,591st human on earth and the 78,606,956,287th person to live as of history beginning (Link).

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Away from Research

Lexi Marsh is my counterpart, and you can read some of her musings at: one of her online portals. My past times are wide and varied and include MMA, hockey, board games, and Taekwondo to name a few. In the past, I played Ultimate for many years with GOAT, Grand Trunk, and Torontula , and you can see my blog at: The Cultimate Opinion.