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THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING WELCOMES NEW FACULTY MEMBER PRABHAT MISHRA
January 18, 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- He didn't have a laptop until he graduated with his doctoral degree, and still he doesn't even own a cell phone.
"Life was so much simpler 100 years ago when we didn't have any of this technology." said new Assistant Professor Prabhat Mishra. However, he's all set to solve the complex challenges posed by today's embedded systems.
Embedded systems are everywhere. They run the computing devices hidden inside a vast array of everyday products and appliances such as cell phones, toys, handheld PDAs, cameras, and microwave ovens. Cars are full of them, as are airplanes, satellites, and advanced military and medical equipments.
Demand is skyrocketing for embedded systems that can add new functions and "smart" features to a wide range of products. As applications grow increasingly complex, so do the complexities of the embedded computing devices. Shrinking time-to-market coupled with short product lifetimes create a critical need for design automation of increasingly sophisticated and complex embedded systems.
Mishra's research interests are in the area of embedded systems, VLSI CAD, and computer architecture.
He explained his embedded systems research patiently and simply, "As you automate embedded systems, you're looking for efficient and cost-effective products. The design is efficient in terms of silicon area, power dissipation, and performance."
Today's embedded systems contain millions of transistors. It is a tremendous challenge to design and verify such complex systems. Mishra's goal is to develop tools, techniques and methodologies to automate and improve various steps in the design flow, including system level modeling, design space exploration, architecture synthesis, functional test generation, retargetable simulation and functional verification.
Mishra has been teaching students since he was 18 years old. He paid all his expenses during his four years of
engineering education in India by teaching pre-college Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. A native of
India, Mishra joined the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) faculty at the University of
Florida in July.
"I love teaching. In fact, I learn a lot when I discuss concepts with students or answer their questions" said Mishra. He considers teaching and learning as generational, "Whatever I learn, I try to pass it on to others."
Mishra received his bachelor's in computer science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and his master's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science this year at the University of California, Irvine, and his dissertation was titled "Specification-driven Validation of Programmable Embedded Systems". He brings more than four years of industry experience to the department; he has worked in India as a software design engineer for Texas Instruments and Sasken, as well as a senior research and development engineer for Synopsys, and as a research intern with Intel and Motorola in the United States.
As far as his research, Mishra is enthusiastic and accomplished. This young researcher can credit six journal articles, a book chapter, nine conference and seven workshop papers to his growth as an academician. In addition, he has served as a program committee member, session chair, reviewer for four journals and six conferences, and as President of the Graduate Students' Association at the University of California, Irvine.
When asked what his goal is as a faculty member within the CISE department of the University of Florida, he recalled that feeling you get as you read someone's work and think, wow, that is a novel piece of work. Mishra's goal is to reach that level, to establish himself in an area where other researchers and scholars might feel the same way about his research.
Mishra believes in a simple family-oriented lifestyle. Mishra's devotion to family, teaching and research are
appreciated in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The department welcomes him
and his wife to the Gator family!
Writer: Mandelyn Hutcherson, 352-392-4700 ext. 5011, HutchersonM@mail.vetmed.ufl.edu
Source: Prabhat Mishra, 352-392-2680, prabhat@cise.ufl.edu
