GRANTS AND AWARDS

1. 2004, Doctoral dissertation of my former student Kaijie Wu (Asst. Prof. of ECE, University of Illinois, Chicago) entitled "On Dependable and Secure Hardware Design" was adjudged the European Design and Automation Association Outstanding Dissertation Award in the New directions in circuit and system test category for the year 2004.

2. 2004, Winner of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference and IEEE International Symposium on Solid State Circuits Student Design Contest third prize.

3. 2003-2004, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Graduate Scholarship

4. 2002, Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship; Institut for Informatik, University of Potsdam, Germany.

5. 2001-2003, Ramesh Karri (PI) "Register Transfer Level Approaches to Radiation Hardening of DSPs," Ballistic Missile Division Organization, US ARMY, sub contract to ASC Inc. Wyndham, NH.

6. 2001, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Three 1.5 million logic gate Virtex-1000E FPGAs, Two one million gate Virtex-600E FPGAs and Two 400K logic gate Virtex-300E FPGAs) have been donated to support research in reconfigurable computing. Xilinx University Program, San Jose, CA 95124.

1. 2001-2004, M. Veeraraghavan (PI), Ramesh Karri (Co-PI), "Towards 2-3 orders of magnitude improvement in call handling capacities of switches," National Science Foundation, Arlington VA.

2. 2001-2002, Phyllis Frankl (PI), Ramesh Karri (Co-PI) and other Co-PIs, "Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology," New York State CAT development program, Albany, NY.

3. 2000-2001, NY state center for advanced telecommunications technologies (CATT), Brooklyn, NY.

4. 1999-2000, NY state center for advanced telecommunications technologies (CATT), Brooklyn, NY.

5. 1997-2002, NSF CAREER award, Ramesh Karri (PI) "Computer Aided Design Tools for Fault-tolerant and Highly Reliable Scalable VLSI Systems," National Science Foundation, Arlington VA.

6. 2000-2001, Ramesh Karri (PI) "Register Transfer Level Approaches to Radiation Hardening of DSPs," Ballistic Missile Division Organization, US ARMY, sub contract to ASC Inc. Wyndham, ASC Inc. Wyndham, NH.

7. 1996-1997, Travel grants from ACM/SIGDA and Design Automation Conference, (for two graduate students and myself) to attend the conference in Las Vegas, NV, June 1996.

8. 1994-1996, Travel grants from ACM/SIGDA (for two graduate students and, myself) to attend the International Conference on CAD, San Jose, CA, Nov 1994, Nov 1995.

9. 1994-1995, Ramesh Karri (PI) Equipment grant from the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

10. 1994-1995, Ramesh Karri (PI) Matching grant to the SIGDA grant, ECE Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

11. 1992-1993, Travel grants to attend 1992 IEEE Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing, Napa Valley CA and 1993 Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA.

12. 1991-1992, University of California Industrial Liaison prize for presentation entitled High-Level Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Microarchitectures, San Diego, CA.

13. 1990-1993, NSF and I/UCR Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems Graduate Research Assistantship, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.

14. 1981-1982, National Merit Scholarship awarded by the Government of India.