February 15, 2008 - The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Kartik Mohanram is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Established in 1995, the grant helps top performing scientists and engineers early in their careers to develop their contributions and commitment to research and education.

A major impact of this research, Design Optimization for Robustness to Single-Event Effects, is to enable ubiquitous low-cost highly reliable computing by expanding its reach to domains that lack the financial resources to acquire custom solutions. Through academic and industry collaborations, the project team will develop an integrated testbed and web-based resources to facilitate broad research in reliable system design, an area that is rapidly gaining in importance and interest. For more details, see research abstract NSF CAREER AWARD

Kartik Mohanram received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical engineering in 1998 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2003 from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in Computer Engineering and Systems, with an emphasis on modeling, simulation, and computer-aided design of integrated circuits. For research updates, see http://www.ece.rice.edu/~kmram/