Lizy Kurian John 

Dr. Lizy Kurian John holds the Truchard Foundation Chair in Engineering in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph. D from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research is in the areas of computer architecture, hardware architectures for machine learning, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing.

Prof. John’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Consortium (SRC), AMD, IBM, Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, etc. She is recipient of NSF CAREER award, UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, University of Texas Alumni Association Teaching Award, The Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, the Joe J King Engineering Achievement Award, etc. She is in the ISCA (International Symposium on Computer Architecture) Hall of Fame and the HPCA (High Performance Computer Architecture) Hall of Fame.

Lizy John holds 18 U. S. patents and has published 16 book chapters, 300+ refereed journal and conference, and workshop papers. She has coauthored books on Digital Systems Design using VHDL (Cengage Publishers 2007, and 2017), Digital Systems Design using Verilog (Cengage Publishers 2014) and has edited a book on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (CRC Press 2005). She has also edited three books on workload characterization.

Prof. John is currently the Chair of the IEEE CS Magazine Operations Committee (MOC). She was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Micro (2019-2023), and has served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, ACM Transactions on Architectures and Code Optimization. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGARCH. She is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Fellow of AAAS and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.