Diana Marculescu





Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University






Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, August 1998

  • M.S. in Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, June 1991

    • Research interests

  • Energy Aware Computing
    Power dissipation has become a critical design concern in recent years, driven by the increased levels of complexity and emergence of mobile applications. Our research addresses this problem by providing architectural and software solutions for reducing the energy requirements of general purpose or embedded applications. Since what drives the power consumption of modern processors is the actual software that runs on it, our research also targets techniques for generating energy aware software and microarchitectural mechanisms to support it.


  • Ambient Intelligent Systems (in particular, Electronic Textiles)
    Electronic textiles or e-textiles are a newly emerging interdisciplinary field of research which brings together specialists in information technology, microsystems, materials, and textiles. The focus of this new area is on developing the enabling technologies and fabrication techniques for the economical manufacture of large-area, flexible, conformable information systems which are expected to have unique applications for both consumer electronics and military industry. E-textiles offer new challenges for hardware and software system developers alike due to their unique requirements, cutting across from the system to the device and technology.


  • CAD for Low Power VLSI System Design
    Power optimization of digital systems is not possible without efficient estimation tools for power consumption. This part of our research targets fast, yet sufficiently accurate power estimation tools at different levels of abstraction. Related research directions include theoretical aspects of power analysis and optimization, as well as information-theoretic and probabilistic analysis of digital systems.


    • Students

  • Graduate

  • Undergraduate

  • Alumni

    • Publications

  • Books and Book Chapters

  • Journal Papers

  • Conference Papers

  • Invited talks and tutorials

  • Ph.D. Thesis

  • Technical Reports

    • Awards and honors

  • ACM-SIGDA Chair-Elect (2005-2007)

  • Best Paper Award, Asian-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (2005)

  • Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2004)

  • IEEE-CAS Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005)

  • ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award (2003)

  • NSF Career Award (2000-2004)

    • Teaching


  • F05: 18-240 Fundamentals of Computer Engineering

  • F04: 18-441 Verification of Computer Hardware Systems

  • S06, S05, F03, F02, F01: 18-743 Energy Aware Computing ( class home page)

  • S02, S01, F00: 18-347 Introduction to Computer Architecture


    • Contact information

    Carnegie Mellon University
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Hamerschlag Hall, 2124
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
    Phone : (412) 268-1167
    Fax : (412) 268-2859
    E-mail: dianam at ece dot cmu dot edu

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