Israel Koren Professor 309E Knowles Engineering Bldg University of Massachusetts 151 Holdsworth Way Amherst MA 01003-9284 Telephone: (413) 545-2643 email: koren@ecs.umass.edu

B.Sc., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1967; M.Sc., 1970; D.Sc., 1975.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fault--tolerant real--time systems, VLSI yield and reliability, and Digital computer arithmetic.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORIES:
Architecture and Real-Time Laboratory
Yield and Reliability of VLSI Circuits

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Textbook: I. Koren, Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, 2nd Edition,  A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002.
• G. Chapman, Y. Audet, S. Djaja, D. Cheung, I. Koren and Z. Koren, ``Self-Correcting Active Pixel Sensor using Hardware and Software Correction," IEEE Design & Test of Computers, pp. 544-551, Nov. 2004.
• O.S. Unsal and I. Koren, ``System-Level Power-Aware Design Techniques in Real-Time Systems," (Invited paper) Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Real-Time Systems, Vol. 91, pp. 1055-1069, July 2003.
• O.S. Unsal, R. Ashok, I. Koren, C.M. Krishna and C. A. Moritz, ``Cool-Cache: A Compiler-Enabled Energy Efficient Data Caching Framework for Embedded/Multimedia Processors," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Special Issue on Power-Aware Systems, pp. 373-392, August 2003.
• G. Bertoni, L. Breveglieri, I. Koren, P. Maistri and V. Piuri, ``Error Analysis and Detection Procedures for a Hardware Implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard," IEEE Trans. on Computers, Special Issue on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, pp. 492-505, April 2003.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: Fellow of IEEE and the Computer Society, Member of ACM.

HONORS & AWARDS: IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

INSTITUTIONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Associate editor of IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems since 2001. Co-Guest Editor of Special Issues of the IEEE Trans. on Computers on Computer Arithmetic, July 2000, and on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, June 2006. General Chair - The 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, June 2005. Co-general chair - FDTC 2004 and 2005, Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography. Program Committee member - The 2001 and 2003, 15th and 16th IEEE Symposiums on Computer Arithmetic. Program Committee member - The 2003 and 2005 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 9 and 11). Member of NSF Computer Engineering Research Proposal Review Panels, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Program Committee member - The 2000-2005 IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems.

 

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