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Lecturer University of Texas at Austin |
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Jacob A. Abraham is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director of the Computer Engineering Research Center and holds a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974. From 1975 to 1988 he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. His research interests include VLSI design and test, formal verification, and fault-tolerant computing. He has published extensively, has received many "best paper" awards, and is included in the ISI list of the most cited researchers in the world. He has supervised more than 80 Ph.D. dissertations, and is particularly proud of the accomplishments of his students, many of whom occupy senior positions in academia and industry. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE as well as Fellow of the ACM, and is the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award.