Instructors

Ryan Kastner joined UCSD in 2007 as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to that he was Kastner an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara where he served as Director of the Extensible, Programmable, Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (ExPRESS) group. He received a PhD in Computer Science (2002) at UCLA, a masters degree in engineering (2000) and bachelor degrees (BS) in both electrical engineering and computer engineering (1999), all from Northwestern University. He is a member of numerous conference technical committees including the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design, Automation and Test in Europe, GLOBECOM, the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA) and the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Embedded Computing.

Rajesh Gupta joined the UCSD faculty in November 2002, and in May, became the first occupant of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems. Previously, he taught at UC Irvine, where he arrived in 1996 after spending three years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993. From 1986-89, he was a senior design engineer at Intel Corporation. In 1995, Gupta was the recipient of a five-year NSF CAREER Award, for architecture and synthesis of embedded systems. Among professional activities, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design and Test of Computers, and at UC Irvine was Cal-(IT)2's layer leader in charge of Interfaces and Software Systems. Gupta is author or co-author of three patents and over 120 research articles. He wrote "Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems" (Kluwer 1995).

Choon Kim, Ph.D., has 20+ years experience in digital ASIC design in wireless communications. He worked at companies including Qualcomm, General Instrument, PCSI and Intergraph corporations. Currently a Senior Development Engineer at the CSE Dept. of UCSD developing an Advanced Embedded System Laboratory for reasearch.