Nikil Dutt

Nikil Dutt
Born	Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Ph.D 1989), Pennsylvania State University (MS 1983)
Awards	IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, embedded system
Institutions	University of California, Irvine
Website	www.ics.uci.edu/~dutt/

Nikil Dutt is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, United States. ^{[1] [2]} Professor Dutt's research interests are in embedded systems, electronic design automation, computer architecture, optimizing compilers, system specification techniques, distributed systems, and formal methods.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Gangtok, Sikkim, India, Dutt received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He received a B.E.(Hons) in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1980, an M.S. in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983.

Career

In 1989, he joined UC-Irvine as an assistant professor of computer science. He is affiliated with Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC), and the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI).

His research has been recognized by Best Paper Awards and Best Paper Award Nominations at several conferences. Dutt has served as associate editor of Association for Computing Machinery's Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS) and of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI).

He was a keynote speaker at several conferences. Dutt served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) from 2004 to 2008.

Awards

In 2007, he was selected as an ACM Distinguished Member ^[3] and in 2008 an IEEE Fellow. ^[4] In 2014, Dutt was elected an ACM Fellow for contributions to embedded architecture exploration, and service to electronic design automation and embedded systems. ^[5]

Books

• High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992
• Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-on-Chip: Optimizations and Exploration, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
• Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
• SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits , by Sumit Gupta, Rajesh K. Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Alex Nicolau, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004
• Functional Validation of Programmable Embedded Architectures: A Top-Down Approach, Springer-Verlag, 2005
• On-chip Communication Architectures: Current Practice, Research and Future Trends, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008
• Processor Description Languages: Applications and Methodologies, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier Systems-on-Silicon Series, 2008.

Personal life

He lives in Irvine, California with his family.

References

1. "Chancellor's Professors". 2002-11-15. Archived from the original on 2002-11-15. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
2. "Nikil Dutt". www.ics.uci.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
3. "ACM Taps 20 Distinguished Members For Achievements In Computing: Recipients' Contributions Solve Problems that Benefit People Throughout the World". Association for Computing Machinery . December 5, 2007. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
4. "IEEE - Fellows - D". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2009-05-24. Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
5. "Nikil D. Dutt". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28.

External links

• Computer Engineering Academic Genealogy