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Kenneth S. Stevens is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. He holds a B.A. degree in Biology, as well as B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Utah and the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has split time between industry and academia, holding positions at Fairchild/Schlumberger Laboratory for AI Research, the Schlumberger Palo Alto Research laboratory, and Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto CA, the Air Force Institute of Technology (AF Grad School) in Dayton Ohio, and Intel’s Strategic CAD Labs in Hillsboro OR. Dr. Stevens is the principal author of three papers that received the Best Paper Awards. He holds several patents on circuit design and timing analysis, and has implemented in CMOS silicon several large fully asynchronous VLSI chips with significant power and performance advantages over comparable clocked designs. Ken has developed GNU public domain software for an international language spelling checker, and is the co-founder of a software company. He has twice served as technical program chair for the ASYNC symposium and for GLSVLSI. Ken is a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include asynchronous circuits, VLSI, architecture and design, hardware synthesis and verification, and timing analysis.

Dheeraj Thakur is a Masters Student in Computer Engineering. He has done his thesis on Asynchronous Network-on-Chips. Currently, he is working for AMD as an ASIC Design Engineer in the Graphics IP team. Apart from work he loves cooking, playing cricket and volleyball

After graduating with a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pune in 2006, Shomit worked as a software engineer for a couple of years at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He joined the University of Utah in 2008 to get a Masters, but stayed on to work towards a PhD. degree. His research focuses on high speed on-die electrical signaling, signal integrity in noisy environments, high-bandwidth asynchronous signaling protocols and asynchronous circuit design. When he’s not in the lab, Shomit loves to read, cook, play basketball and enjoy long drives in beautiful Salt Lake City. - Postdoctoral Researcher, AMD Research

Now CEO and founder AgPlexus LLC, graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Masters in Computer Engineering, in 2009 and 2011 respectively.  In Robocup-2006 Shafagh as a member of Resquake was awarded second place for the best design for rescue robots, in Osaka, Japan. Cycling and skiing are Shafagh’s passions in life.