Nader Bagherzadeh is a professor of computer engineering in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as a chair from 1998 to 2003. Dr Bagherzadeh has been involved in research and development in the areas of: computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, VLSI chip design, network-on-chip, 3D chips, sensor networks, and computer graphics since he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Professor Bagherzadeh has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has trained hundreds of students who have assumed key positions in software and computer systems design companies in the past twenty years. He has been a PI or Co-PI on more than $8 million worth of research grants for developing next generation computer systems for applications in general purpose computing and digital signal processing.