Professor Kurt Keutzer UC Berkeley 566 Soda Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 510-642-9267 510-642-2739 Fax email: keutzer ^.^ eecs.berkeley.edu

I joined Berkeley's EECS faculty in January 1998 after fifteen years in industry. My last industry position was CTO and Senior Vice-President at Synopsys. . To get a better idea as to what I've been up to you can check out my brief professional biography.

My approach to research has been driven by a couple of adages: "Necessity is the mother of invention" and "Research has to be good for something before it is good for everything." Over my career the aim of my research has been to enable system designers to fully utilize the capabilities that silicon manufacturing was providing them. This aspiration has drawn me to work on almost every type of problem in Electronic Design Automation. I have particularly focused on silicon compilation, logic synthesis, and system synthesis. After I joined Berkleley, I became convinced that the programming of highly-parallel chip multiprocessors would increasingly displace the building of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS) as a system solution. This led me to focus on the development of programming environments, particularly application frameworks, for on-chip multiprocessor systems. This is now my principal research focus.