Majid Sarrafzadeh (Fellow of IEEE 96)
received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. In 2000, he joined the Computer Science Department at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently a co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute (WHI) . His recent research interests lie in the area of Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing with emphasis on healthcare. Dr. Sarrafzadeh is a Fellow of IEEE. He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences and been a general chair of many of them. Professor Sarrafzadeh has published approximately 370 papers, co-authored 5 books, and is a named inventor on 10 US patents
Dr. Sarrafzadeh has collaborated with many industries in the past 25 years including IBM and Motorola and many CAD industries and was the architect of the physical design subsystem of Monterey Design Systems – Synopsys acquired the company. He was a co-founder of Hier Design, Inc. Hier Design was acquired by Xilinx in 2004. He has recently co-founded Medisens and BioAssyst: both companies in the area of Wireless Health.
January 16, 2011
