John, Lizy

Biography:

Lizy Kurian John received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She joined The University of Texas Austin faculty in fall 1996, and is an Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching fellow.

 Lizy John is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI and is in the editorial board of IEEE-Micro. She is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and a member of ACM, and ACM SIGARCH. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. She has edited a book on computer performance evaluation and three books on workload characterization. She holds a patent on field programmable memory cell arrays. She has published 10 book chapters, and more than 60 refereed journal and conference publications. She teaches courses on superscalar microprocessors, performance evaluation and benchmarking, computer architecture, and digital design.

Lizy John's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, IBM, Intel, Motorola, AMD, Texas Instruments, Tivoli and Microsoft Corporations. She won the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 1996. She also won the Halliburton Award of Excellence in 1999 and the College of Engineering Foundation Faculty Award in 2001. She was an IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies fellow from 2001 to 2003.

Research Interests: Dr. John's current research interests include high performance processors such as superscalar and superpipelined processors, high performance memory systems and caches, low-power design, compiler optimization techniques, program behavior studies, workload characterization, reconfigurable computer architectures, rapid prototyping etc. Understanding the performance impact of contemporary programming paradigms and applications and designing microprocessors and computer systems for emerging workloads is the thrust of her research.