Biography

Curriculum Vitae (pdf) - last updated 3.6.2008

Technical Biography

Ryan Kastner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. 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 spent the first five years after his PhD as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Professor Kastner's current research interests reside in the realm of embedded system design, in particular, the use of reconfigurable computing devices for digital signal processing. He has published over 90 technical articles, and has authored two books, "Synthesis Techniques and Optimizations for Reconfigurable Systems" (Springer) and "Arithmetic Optimizations for Polynomial Expressions and Linear Systems" (Cambridge University Press) and is currently working on a third book on the topic of reconfigurable hardware security. He has served as member of numerous conference technical committees spanning topics like reconfigurable computing (ISFPGA, FPL, FPT, ERSA, RAW, ARC), electronic design automation (DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ICCD, GLSVLSI), wireless communication (GLOBECOM), hardware security (HOST) and underwater networking (WUWNet). He serves on the editorial board for the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters.

Short Biography

Ryan is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD in Computer Science at UCLA, a masters degree (MS) in engineering and bachelor degrees (BS) in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, all from Northwestern University. He was born in Greensburg, PA and has spent his entire life moving westward - first to Medina, OH, then to Chicago, and finally California. His current research interests reside in the realm of embedded system design, in particular, the use of reconfigurable computing devices for digital signal processing.