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IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS, VOL. 5, NO. 1, MARCH 2013
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Editorial Introduction of New Associate Editors
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FTER taking over from the founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Rajesh Gupta, the IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS (LES) appears to have found a niche for itself as a forum for rapid dissemination of the latest technical advances in embedded systems and related areas in embedded software. Finding a balance between: 1) establishing LES as a high quality destination for papers; and 2) increasing the number of accepted papers, has been one of the challenges. In most cases, we have leaned in favor of maintaining quality, believing that it will be in the long-term interest of LES. Before his term ended, Rajesh took a poll of our readership and the editorial board on two questions: 1) the five most important advances in embedded systems in the last five years; and 2) the five most important technical challenges in embedded systems in the next five years. The results of the poll have served as input for the topical coverage we shall be seeking in upcoming (Special) issues of LES. Specifically, we have completed a Special Issue on novel memory architectures and organizations (December, 2012). Additionally, we already have two other special issues underway, one on system level-design of automotive electronics/software (June, 2013), and the other on rigorous modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems (late 2013). This is an increase in the number of Special Issues that this periodical has seen in its history, and they address topics of current/growing interest to the community. It is our hope is that they will widen and increase the visibility and readership, especially in areas that are expected to see a spurt in research activity. We plan to continue to organize Special Issues, such as on security of embedded systems and other topics identified by the editorial board. At the same time, to make sure that they do not lead to any backlogs for regular papers, we plan to have, on average, no more than one Special Issue per year. We hope that with all these steps, we can progress within the next couple of years from an average of five papers per issue to, consistently, six papers per issue, and the current four issues per year to six issues per year. We seek your input and support in this regard. Results of the aforementioned poll also served as input while we looked for new Editorial Board Members to take the place of the following Associate Editors (AEs) who have ably served
from the early days of LES and whose terms expired end of 2012. • Tarek Abdelzaher • Jose L. Ayala • James Hoe • Ryan Kastner • Rakesh Kumar • Gang Qu • Donatella Sciuto • Sandeep Shukla We would like to place on record their excellent contributions to LES and express our sincere thanks for their unstinting support. You may know that ESL Editorial Board Members serve staggering two-year terms, with appointments made by the Pubscom upon recommendations by the EIC and concurrence by the Steering Committee. Pubscom has approved the induction of the following new AEs. Given their strong credentials—appearing at the end of this editorial—we can expect ESL to climb to even greater heights. We welcome them aboard. We would also like to welcome three new Steering Committee members: Hermann Kopetz, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Mahesh Mehendale. We look forward to their guidance as we nurture LES further. We would like to acknowledge the support and inputs given by retiring steering committee members Dinesh Ramanathan, Andreas Kuehlman, and Feng Zhao during its early years. Thanks and warm regards!
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KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM, Editor-in-Chief Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai, 400076 India CATHERINE GEBOTYS, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada
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Yuvraj Agarwal received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Pune University, Pune, India, the M.Sc. degree in information and computer science from University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. He is a Research Scientist at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. His research interests are at the intersection of systems and networking and embedded systems, and he is particularly excited about research problems that benefit from using hardware insights to build more scalable and efficient systems. In recent years, his work has focused on green computing, mobile computing, and energy efficient buildings.
M. Balakrishnan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India. For the last three decades, he has been involved in teaching and research in the areas of digital systems design, electronic design automation, and embedded systems. He has supervised eight Ph.D. students and published nearly 80 papers in leading journals and conferences. Further, he has held visiting positions in universities in Germany, the United States, and Canada. He has been the head of the CSE Department, Dean of Postgraduate studies, as well as Deputy Director (Faculty) at IIT Delhi. He has been involved with various initiatives for promotion of research at IIT Delhi as well as through professional societies.
Ayse Coskun received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. She is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University (BU), Boston, MA, USA. Her research interests include temperature and energy management in multiprocessor systems, 3-D stack architectures, computer architecture, embedded systems, and software. She worked at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), San Diego prior to her current position at BU. Dr. Coskum received the Best Paper Award at IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Conference, in 2009, and at High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop in 2011, and she is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
Barbara Jobstmann received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in 2007. She is a Senior Field Application Engineer for Jasper Design Automation, Mountain View, CA, USA, and a Lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. She also holds a Researcher position at the French National Research Center (CNRS) in the Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France. Her research interests include constructing correct and reliable systems using formal verification and synthesis techniques. She uses automata-based game theory to automatically construct, correct, and analyze computer systems and their specifications. She has served as program committee member of several leading conferences in formal methods, electronic design automation, and computer science logic. She has been a program chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE) in 2010 and 2011. She is cochairing the International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) in 2013.
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Tei-Wei Kuo received the B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, where he was the Department Chair between 2005 and 2008. He is also the Executive Director and a Research Fellow of the Intelligent and Ubiquitous Computing Thematic Center of the Research Center of the IT Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He chairs the Embedded Systems Group of the National Networked Communication Program office, Taiwan, since 2010, and serves as the Program Director of the Computer Science Division of the Taiwan National Science Council from 2013. His research interests include embedded systems, real-time systems, and nonvolatile memory. He has published a number of papers in top journals and conferences with two best paper awards so far and owns more than 15 patents in flash memory storage systems and real-time operating systems. He was a Program Chair and a General Chair of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) and serves as a program committee members of many top conferences in his fields, such as DAC, RTAS, EMSOFT, CODES+ISSS, ICDCS, etc. Dr. Kuo received the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, the Young Scholar Research Award from the Academia Sinica, and the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award of Taiwan. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Real-Time Systems and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
Zili Shao received the B.Eng. degree in electronic mechanics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, China, in 1995, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, since 2010. His research interests include embedded software and systems, real-time systems, and related industrial applications.
Wei Zhao received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, in 1977. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He is currently the Rector of the University of Macau, Jinwan, China. Before joining the University of Macau, he served as the Dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer, NY, USA. Between 2005 and 2006, he served as the Director for the Division of Computer and Network Systems in the U.S. National Science Foundation when he was on leave from Texas A&M University, where he was the Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Professor of Computer Science. He was the Founding Director of the Texas A&M Center for Information security and Assurance, which has been recognized as a Center of Academic Education by the National Security Agency. As an elected IEEE Follow, Professor Zhao has made significant contributions in distributed computing, real-time systems, computer networks, and cyber space security. He is the holder of two U.S. patents and has published over 340 papers in journals, conferences, and book chapters. In 2011, he was named by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the Chief Scientist of the National 973 Internet of Things Project on cyber-physical networking system.
