Radu Marculescu to Receive 2019 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 14 March 2019 – Radu Marculescu, the Kavčić-Moura Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2019 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, for “seminal contributions to the science of network on chip design, analysis, and optimization.”

Radu Marculescu is a Fellow of IEEE. His research focuses on the modeling and optimization of embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, social networks, and biological systems. He has been involved in organizing several international symposia, conferences, workshops, as well as been guest editor of special issues of archival journals and magazines. Most recently, he was the General Co-Chair of the 10th edition of Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWEEK). Read about Marculescu’s System Level Design Group at Carnegie Mellon University.

Marculescu has received several best paper awards in the area of design automation and embedded systems design. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1998.

The IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award is given for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10 to 15 years. Contributions must have significantly promoted technical progress in the field.

The award consists of a certificate and a $2,000 honorarium, and will be presented to Marculescu at the IEEE Computer Society COMPSAC conference dinner. COMPSAC will be held on Wednesday, 17 July 2019, at the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

View more information about the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, including a list of past recipients.

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