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Joseph R. Cavallaro received the B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa, in 1981, the M.S. from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1982, and the Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988, all in electrical engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow. From 1981 to 1983, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. In 1988, he joined the faculty of Rice University, Houston, TX, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Chair. His research interests include computer arithmetic, and DSP, GPU, FPGA, and VLSI architectures for applications in wireless communications. During the 1996–1997 academic year, he served at the US National Science Foundation as Director of the Prototyping Tools and Methodology Program. He was a Nokia Foundation Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland in 2005. He is currently the Director of the Center for Multimedia Communication at Rice University. He is an advisory board member of the IEEE SPS TC on Applied Signal Processing Systems and past Chair of the IEEE CAS TC on Circuits and Systems for Communications. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and currently serves as an AE for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems and an SE for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He was General/Program Co-chair of the 2003, 2004, and 2011 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), and General/Program Co-chair for the 2012, 2014 ACM/IEEE GLSVLSI conferences. He was TPC Co-Chair in 2016 and General Co-Chair in 2020 and 2021 of the IEEE SiPS workshops. He was TPC Chair in 2017 and General Chair in 2020 of the IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. He served on the IEEE CAS Society Board of Governors during 2014.

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