Erik Brunvand

Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
elb@cs.utah.edu


Current research Grants

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation award "Flexible Architectures for Future Graphics Processing Systems" August 2010 — July 2013, Co-Pi Al Davis

oPrincipal Investigator for Army Research Labs award "Radio Frequency Ray Tracing Evaluation February 2011 — May 2011


Past Research Grants

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation award "Hardware Support for Real Time Ray Tracing," June 2006 - July 2010, with Al Davis, Pete Shirley, and Steve Parker as co-PIs.

oPrincipal Investigator for Army Research Labs award "Ray Trace Applications to Radio Frequency (RF) Propogation" September 2007 — December 2008

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation award "Microengines for Programmable Self-Timed Control," Sept 2000 - July 2005, with Ganesh Gopalakrishnan as co-PI.

o Co-PI on ARPA Award "Impulse: Adaptive Memory Systems," Jan 1998 - Jan 2002, with John Carter as PI.

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation MIP-9622587 "Application-Driven Advancement of Asynchronous Design Methods," Sept 1996 - Sept 1999, With Ganesh Gopalakrishnan as Co-PI. The ACK Project

o Faculty associate for ARPA grant (BAA 94-08), "Communication and Memory Architectures for Scalable Parallel Computing," Al Davis, PI. September 1994 - September 1997. The Avalanche Project

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation, "Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems," (Support for an international conference on asynchronous circuit design to be held in Salt Lake City in November 1994. See the Async94 home page for more details.

o Principal Investigator for University of Utah Research Committee, "Testing Asynchronous Circuits," September 1993 - September 1995

o Co-Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation MIP-9215878 "The Design of Asynchronous Circuits and Systems with Emphasis on Correctness and Proven Optimizations," Jan 1993 - June 1995, with Ganesh Gopalakrishnan as Co-PI.

o Co-Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation MIP-9115372, "Self-Timed GaAs Building Blocks for High performance Systems," Jan 1992 - June 1994, with Kent Smith.

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award MIP-9111793, "Asynchronous Computer Architecture," Aug 1991 - Jan 1994

o Principal Investigator for University of Utah Research Committee, "Building Blocks for Implementing Self Timed VLSI Circuits," Feb 1991 - Feb 1993

o Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation, pilot program to evaluate the use of FPGAs in the classroom, Sept. 1990


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