Kenneth Eguro

Ken Eguro

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering 1/2003 – present	University of Washington – Seattle, WA Thesis – Supporting Heavily-Pipelined Reconfigurable Computing on Commodity Devices Advisor – Dr. Scott Hauck Ph.D. expected 2008 Finalist for 2004 Microsoft Research Fellowship Nominated for 2003 Yang Research Award
M.S., Electrical Engineering 6/2001 – 12/2002	University of Washington – Seattle, WA Thesis – RaPiD-AES: Developing Encryption-Specific FPGA Architecture Advisor – Dr. Scott Hauck
Graduate Work 9/2000 – 6/2001	University of Illinois Champaign, IL Nominated for Harold L. Olesen Teaching Assistant Award
B.S., Computer Engineering 9/1996 – 6/2000	Northwestern University – Evanston, IL Graduated first in Computer Engineering curriculum, Class of 2000 IEC Everitt Award for 1999-2000 Treasurer of Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, Beta Tau Chapter, 1999-2000

Work Experience

Research Assistant 6/2001 – present	EE Dept., University of Washington – Seattle, WA Member of Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators Lab
Instructor 1/2006 – 3/2006 3/2006 - 6/2006 9/2006 - 12/2006	EE Dept., University of Washington – Seattle, WA Course Instructor for EE541 – Automatic Layout for Integrated Circuits Course Instructor for EE471 – Computer Design and Organization Course Instructor for EE471 – Computer Design and Organization Nominated for 2006 Electrical Engineering Department Outstanding Teaching Award
Intern 6/2004 – 9/2004 8/2005 - 11/2005	Microsoft Research, Hardware Device Group – Seattle, WA Developed graphical programming language for a exploring a prototype reconfigurable computing platform Developed early applications for prototype system to evalutate strengths and weaknesses of programming model.
Teaching Assistant 9/2000 – 6/2001	ECE Dept., University of Illinois – Champaign, IL Conducted one of three lectures held each week for ECE290 - "Introduction to Computer Engineering"
Undergraduate Researcher 1/1999 – 6/2000 9/1998 – 6/2000	ECE Dept., Northwestern University – Evanston, IL Research in fast placement and routing algorithms with Dr. Majid Sarrafzadeh Research into FPGA layout synthesis and applications of reconfigurable logic in high-performance computing with Dr. Scott Hauck

Research Interests

The exploration of innovative, high-performance computing architectures
Design automation and fast CAD algorithms
Encryption and cryptanalysis
Distributed computing

Publications

K. Eguro and S. Hauck. “synFPGA: Application Specific FPGA Synthesis”, Northwestern University, Dept. of ECE, Technical Report, 2000.
Yang, X., M. Wang, K. Eguro and M. Sarrafzadeh. "A Snap-On Placement Tool", ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Physical Design, 153-8, 2000.
Wang, M., X. Yang, K. Eguro and M. Sarrafzadeh. "Multi-Center Congestion Minimization during Placement,", ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Physical Design, 146-52, 2000.
K. Eguro and S. Hauck.“Decipher: Architecture Development of Reconfigurable Encryption Hardware”, University of Washington, Dept. of EE, Technical Report, 2002.
K. Eguro RaPiD-AES: Developing an Encryption-Specific FPGA Architecture, M.S. Thesis, University of Washington, Dept. of EE, 2002.
K. Eguro and S. Hauck. "Issues and Approaches to Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Architecture Development.” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 111-20, 2003.
K, Eguro, S. Hauck, "Issues of Wirelength Cost Models in Routing-Constrained FPGAs", University of Washington, Dept. of EE Technical Report UWEETR-2004-0006, 2004.
K. Eguro, S. Hauck, "Resource Allocation for Coarse Grain FPGA Development", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 24, No. 10, 1572-81, Oct. 2005.
K. Eguro, S. Hauck, A. Sharma, "Architecture-Adaptive Range Limit Windowing for Simulated Annealing FPGA Placement", Design Automation Conference, 439-44, 2005
K. Eguro, S. Hauck, "Armada: Timing-Driven Pipeline-Aware Routing for FPGAs", ACM/SIGDA Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 169-78, 2006.

Personal

Treasurer, UW Kendo Club - 2003 to 2006

References

Personal references will be furnished upon request

Please email eguro@eguro.com for further contact information