Lizy Kurian John, PE

Biography

Lizy Kurian John is Truchard Foundation Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph. D in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She is recipient of many awards including The Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award (2011), Joe J King Professional Engineering Achievement Award (2023) the NSF CAREER award, UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, Halliburton, Brown and Root Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award 2001, University of Texas Alumni Association (Texas Exes) Teaching Award 2004, , etc. She has coauthored books on Digital Systems Design using VHDL (Cengage Publishers, 2007, 2017), a book on Digital Systems Design using Verilog (Cengage Publishers, 2014) and has edited 4 books including a book on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Micro. She holds 16 US patents and is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Dr. John's research interests include computer architecture, workload characterization, performance evaluation, memory systems, reconfigurable architectures, and high performance architectures for emerging workloads. Designing hardware for machine learning architectures is one of her interests. Designing accelerators including FPGA-based accelerators is another research interest. She is also working on weightless neural networks for ultra-low energy ultra-low latency machine learning. Increasing performance and reducing power/energy of hardware is a common theme across her research topics.

IEEE Fellow

ACM Fellow

Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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