Professor Emeritus Israel Koren
UMass Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Biography

Israel Koren received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1967, 1970, and 1975, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a visiting Professor at the Instituto De Informatica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Engineering, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is an Honorary Professor at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Previously he held positions with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been a consultant to several companies including Analog Devices, AMD, Digital Equipment Corp., IBM, Intel, National Semiconductor and Tolerant Systems.

Dr. Koren's current research interests are Fault-Tolerant Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Secure Cryptographic Devices and Computer Arithmetic. He publishes extensively and has over 300 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems Journal. He has been a Co-Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions on Computers special issues on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, Sept. 2006, on Computer Arithmetic, July 2000, and on High Yield VLSI Systems, April 1989. He served on the Editorial Board of these Transactions during 1992-1997, the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems during 2001-2006, the Editorial board of the IEEE Computer Architecture Letters during 2006-2010 and the Editorail Board of the VLSI Design Journal during 2006-2016. He also served as General Chair, Program Chair and Program Committee member for numerous conferences. He has edited and co-authored the book, Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Vol. 1, Plenum, 1989. He is the author of the textbook Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, Second Edition, A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002. He is a co-author of the textbook Fault-Tolerant Systems, 2nd Edition, Morgan-Kaufman, San Francisco, CA, 2020. Dr. Koren is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Master of the DeTao Masters Academy, China.



Research Interests

Research is being conducted in the following directions (the pointers in brackets indicate the relevant publications in the list below or follow the link to Prior Publications):
Multicore and SMT Architectures: [SLKKB18], [DCANK17], [SKKK16], [SKK15a], [SKK15b], [RKK15], [RKK14], [RAKK13], [ARKK13], [SRAKK13a], [SRAKK13b],[RAKK12a], [RAKK12b], [ARKK12], [RKK11], [ARKK11], [WKK11], [DRKK10], [WKK08].
Power and Temperature Aware Systems: [CKK16], [PKK13], [KoKr11], [HaKo07], [HKK07], [WGKK06], [GKK05], [UnKo03], [URKK01].
Secure Cryptogrpahic devices: [MDNK17], [BHB14], [MTMK13], [RBIK12], [BBKN12], [BPBKR10], [REBIK08], [ABPK07], [REGB07], [BNK07], [BBKMP03a], [BBKMP03b], [BBKMP03].
Cyber-Physical Systems: [XKK20a], [XKK20b], [KK17], [XKK17], [CKK16], [KK13], [JKKK12], [XKK12].
Fault-Tolerant Systems: [KoKr20], [RKK12], [RKK11], [ZLKK07], [UnKo03], [DuKK01], [HLKK00], [ACDH00], [KKKr98], [YuKo95].
Defect and fault tolerance [LCCTK10], [LCKK09], [ChKo04], [SiKo03], [KoKo00].
Digital computer arithmetic: [WK16], [WiAK14], [Kore02], [WoKo05], [KKO03], [PhGK01], [PhKo99].



Selected List of Recent Publications (copyright note)

Publications on Google Scholar.

[KoKr20] Textbook: I. Koren and C. M. Krishna, Fault-Tolerant Systems,, 2nd Edition, Morgan-Kaufman, San Francisco, CA, 2020.
[Kore02] Textbook: I. Koren, Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, Second Edition, A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002.
[XKK21] S. Xu, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, ``Adaptive Workload Adjustment for Cyber-Physical Systems using Deep Reinforcement Learning," (pdf file) Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Vol. 30, 8pp, Ju 2021.
[XKK20a] S. Xu, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, ``Thermal Aware Task Scheduling for Enhanced Cyber-Physical Systems Sustainability," (pdf file) IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Computing, Vol.5, pp. 581-593, Oct. 2020.
[XKK20b] S. Xu, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, ``Enhancing Dependability and Energy Efficiency of Cyber-Physical Systems by Dynamic Actuator Derating," (pdf file) Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, vol. 28, pp. 1-10, Dec. 2020.
[RKK19] N. Ravi, C. M. Krishna and I. Koren, ``Enhancing Vehicular Anonymity in ITS: A New Scheme for Mix Zones and their Placement," (pdf file) IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 10372-10381, Nov. 2019.
[SLKKB18] A. Sartor, A. Lorenzon, S. Kundu, I. Koren and A. Beck, ``Adaptive and Polymorphic VLIW Processor to Optimize Fault Tolerance, Energy Consumption, and Performance," (pdf file) Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF-2018), 8pp., May 2018 (won the Best Paper Award).
[KK17] C. M. Krishna and I. Koren, "Thermal-Aware Management Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems," (pdf file) Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, pp. 39-51, Sept. 2017.
[DCANK17] M. Diener, E. Cruz, M. Alves, P. Navaux and I. Koren, "Affinity-Based Thread and Data Mapping in Shared Memory Systems," (pdf file) ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.49, pp. 64.1-64.38, Jan. 2017.
[XKK17] Y. Xu, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, ``AdaFT: A Framework for Adaptive Fault Tolerance for Cyber-Physical Systems," (pdf file) ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), pp. 79.1-79.25, April 2017.
[MDNK17] F. Moreira, M. Diener, P. Navaux and I. Koren, "Data Mining the Memory Access Stream to Detect Anomalous Application Behavior," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2017 ACM Intern. Conf. on Computing Frontiers, pp. 45-52, May 2017.
[CTTKK16] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, R. Thomas, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Experimental Study and Analysis of Soft and Permanent Errors in Digital Cameras," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2016 IEEE Internl. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotechnology Systems, 4 pp, Sept. 2016.
[OPKR16] D. Oliveira, L. Pilla, F. Fernandes, C. Lunardi, I. Koren, P. Navaux, L. Carro and P. Rech, "Input Size Effects on the Radiation-Sensitivity of Modern Parallel Processors," (pdf file) Proc. of the Radiation Effects Data workshop, 6 pp., July 2016.
[CKK16] M. Chhablani, I. Koren and C. Krishna, "Online Inertia-based Temperature Estimation for Reliability Enhancement" (pdf file) ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics - JOLPE, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 159-171, Sept. 2016.
[CTTKK16] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, R. Thomas, K. Meneses, T. Yang, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Increases in Hot Pixel Development Rates for Small Digital Pixel Sizes," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2016 Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 5 pp., Feb. 2016.
[MADNK16] F. Moreira, M. Alves, M. Diener, P. Navaux and I. Koren, ``A Dynamic Block-Level Execution Profiler," (pdf file) Parallel Computing, pp. 15-28, May 2016.
[WK16] S. Wimer and I. Koren, ``Energy Efficient Deeply Fused Dot-Product Multiplication Architecture," (pdf file) Proc. of ASAP'16 - the Internl. Conf. on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pp. 115-122, July 2016.
[SKKK16] S. Srinivasan, N. Kurella, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Exploring Heterogeneity within a Core for Improved Power Efficiency," (pdf file) IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1057-1068, April 2016.
[CKK16] S. Xu, I. Koren and C. Krishna, ``Thermal-Aware Task Allocation and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Cyber-Physical Systems," (pdf file) Proc. of the Internl. Conf. on Embedded Systems and Cyber-physical Systems (ESCS'16), 6pp., July 2016.
[SKK15] S. Srinivasan, I. Koren, S. Kundu, "Online Mechanism for Reliability and Power-Efficiency Management of a Dynamically Reconfigurable Core," (pdf file) Proc. of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2015), pp. 356-363, Oct. 2015.
[CTTKK15a] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, R. Thomas, K. Meneses, T. Yang, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Single Event Upsets and Hot Pixels in Digital Imagers," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2015 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotechnology Systems, pp 1-10., Oct. 2015.
[CTTKK15b] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, R. Thomas, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Enhanced Correction Methods for High Density Hot Pixel defects in Digital Imagers," (pdf file) Proc. of the 27th SPIE Electronic Imaging Symp., Vol. 9403, 10 pp, Mar. 2015.
[RKK15] R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Does the Sharing of Execution Units Improve Performance/Power of Multicores?," (pdf file), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 17.1-24, 2015.
[CKK15] S. Xu, I. Koren and C. Krishna, "Improving Processor Lifespan and Energy Consumption Using DVFS Based on ILP Monitoring," (pdf file), Proc. of the Workshop on Low-Power Dependable Computing (LPDC 2015), 6 pp., Dec. 2015.
[CTTKK14] Chapman, R. Thomas, R. Thomas, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Improved Correction for Hot Pixels in Digital Imagers," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2014 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotechnology Systems, pp. 116-121, Oct. 2014.
[BHB14] A. Barenghi, C. Hocquet, D. Bol, F-X. Standaert, F. Regazzoni and I. Koren, "A Combined Design-Time/Test-Time Study of the Vulnerability of Sub-Threshold Devices to Low Voltage Fault Attacks," (pdf file) IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, pp. 107-118, June 2014.
[WiAK14] S. Wimer, A. Albeck and I. Koren, "A Low Energy Dual-Mode Adder," (pdf file) Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 40, pp. 1524-1537, July 2014.
[RKK14] R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Performance and Power Benefits of Sharing Execution Units between a High Performance Core and a Low Power Core," (pdf file) Proc. of the International IEEE Conference on VLSI Design, pp. 204-209, Jan. 2014.
[WiKo14] S. Wimer and I. Koren, "Design Flow for Flip-Flop Grouping in Data-Driven Clock Gating," (pdf file), IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, pp. 771-778, April 2014.
[SKKKR14] S. Srinivasan, N. Kurella, I. Koren, S. Kundu and R. Rodrigues, "A Runtime Support Mechanism for Fast Mode Switching of a Self-Morphing Core for Power Efficiency," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2014 Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'14), pp. 491-492, Aug. 2014.
[MADNK14] F. Moreira, M. Alves, M. Diener, P. Navaux and I. Koren, "Profiling and Optimizing Micro-Architecture Bottlenecks at the Hardware Level," (pdf file), Proc. of the 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 8 pp., October 2014.
[RAKS14] R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Reducing Energy per Instruction via Dynamic Resource Allocation and Voltage and Frequency Adaptation in Asymmetric Multicores," (pdf file), IEEE Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), pp. 436-441, July 2014.
[RKKK14] R. Ravindran, C.M. Krishna, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Scheduling Imprecise Task Graphs for Real-Time Applications" (pdf file) International Journal of Embedded Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 73-85, Jan. 2014.
[PKK13] N. Prakash, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, "Low Cost Dynamic Architecture Adaptation Schemes for Drowsy Cache Management," (pdf file) ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics - JOLPE, Vol. 9, pp. 373-388, Dec. 2013.
[RAKK13b] R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "A Study on the use of Performance Counters to Estimate Power in Microprocessors," (pdf file), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 60, pp. 882-886, Dec. 2013.
[ARKK13] A. Annamalai, R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "An Opportunistic Prediction-based Thread Scheduling to Maximize Throuhput/Watt in AMPs," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2013 Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'13), pp. 63-72, Oct. 2013.
[SRAKK13] S. Srinivasan, R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "On Dynamic Polymorphing of a Superscalar Core for Improving Energy Efficiency," (pdf file), Proc. of the 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2013), pp. 495-499, Oct. 2013.
[MTMK13] P. Maistri, S. Tiran, P. Maurine, I. Koren, and R. Leveugle, "Countermeasures against EM Analysis for a Secured FPGA-based AES Implementation," (pdf file) Proc. of the International Conference on ReConfigurable Computing and FPGAS (ReConfig 2013), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2013.
[CTKK13a] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Improved Image Accuracy in Hot Pixel Degraded Digital Cameras," (pdf file) Proc. of the 2013 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI \& Nanotechnology Systems, pp. 172-177, Oct. 2013.
[CTKK13b] G. Chapman, R. Thomas, Z. Koren and I. Koren, "Empirical Formula for Rates of Hot Pixel Defects based on Pixel Size, Sensor Area, and ISO," (pdf file), Proc. of the 25th SPIE Electronic Imaging Symp., Vol. 8659, pp. C1-C11, Feb. 2013.
[RAKK13a] R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Improving Performance per Watt of Asymmetric Multicore Processors via Online Program Phase Classification and Adaptive Core Morphing," (pdf file), ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), pp.1-23, Jan. 2013.
[KK13] C.M. Krishna and I. Koren, "Adaptive Fault-Tolerance for Cyber-Physical Systems," (pdf file), Proc. of ICNC 2013 International Workshop on Cyber-Physical System and Its Computing and Networking Design, 5 pp., January 2013.
[SRAK13] S. Srinivasan, R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "A study on Polymorphing Superscalar Processor Dynamically to Improve Power Efficiency," (pdf file), IEEE Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), pp. 46-51, Aug. 2013.
[RBIK12] Book Chapter: F. Regazzoni, L. Breveglieri, P. Ienne and I. Koren, "Interaction between Fault Attack Countermeasures and the Resistance against Power Analysis Attacks," (pdf file) in Fault Analysis in Cryptography, M. Joye and M. Tunstall (Eds.), Chapter 15, pp. 257-273, Information Security and Cryptography Series, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. XVI, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
[BBKN12] A. Barenghi, L. Breveglieri, I. Koren and D. Naccache, "Fault Injection Attacks on Cryptographic Devices: Theory, Practice and Countermeasures," (pdf file), Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 3056-3076, Nov. 2012.
[RKK12] R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "A Mechanism to Verify Cache Coherence Transactions in Multicore Systems," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2012 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI \& Nanotechnology Systems, pp. 211-216, Oct. 2012.
[WKK12] H. Wang, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, "Runtime Architecture Adaptation for Energy Management in Embedded Real-Time Systems," (pdf file) 3rd IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12), pp. 1-9, June 2012.
[WiKo12] S. Wimer and I. Koren, "The Optimal Fan-Out of Clock Network for Power Minimization by Adaptive Gating," (pdf file) IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, pp. 1772-1780, Oct. 2012.
[RAKK12b] R. Rodrigues, A. Annamalai, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Scalable Thread Scheduling in Asymmetric Multicores for Power Efficiency," (pdf file), Proc. of the 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), pp. 59-66, October 2012.
[JKKK12] A. Jain, C.M. Krishna, I. Koren and Z. Koren, "Cost Functions for Scheduling Tasks in Cyber-Physical Systems," (pdf file), 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), pp. 412-421, July 2012.
[XKK12] Y. Xu, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, "A Study of the Impact of Computational Delays in Missile Interception Systems," (pdf file), 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), pp. 585-588, July 2012.
[ARKK12] A. Annamalai, R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "Dynamic Thread Scheduling in Asymmetric Multicores to Maximize Performance-per-Watt," (pdf file), Proc. of the 8th IEEE Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC/IPDPS), May 2012.
[SKK12] A. Sreedhar, S. Kundu and I. Koren, "On Reliability Trojans Injection and Detection," (pdf file), ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics - JOLPE, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 674-683, Dec. 2012.
[KoKr11] I. Koren and C. M. Krishna, "Temperature-Aware Computing," (Invited Paper), ( pdf file), Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 46-56, March 2011.
[RKK11] R. Rodrigues, I. Koren and S. Kundu, "An Architecture to enable Life Cycle Testing of CMPs," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotechnology Systems (DFT'11), Oct. 2011.
[VNKKM11] P. Vijayakumar, P. Narayanan, I. Koren, C. M. Krishna and C. A. Moritz, "Impact of Nanomanufacturing Flow on Systematic Yield Losses in Nanoscale Fabrics," (pdf file), Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Intern. Symp. on NanoScale Architectures (NanoArch'11), pp. 181-188, June 2011.
[PVN11] P. Panchapakeshan, P. Vijayakumar, P. Narayanan, C-O. Chui, I. Koren and C. A. Moritz, "3-D Integration Requirements of Hybrid Nanoscale-CMOS Fabrics," (pdf file), Proc. of 2011 IEEE NANO Conference, August 2011.
[NKP11] P. Narayanan, J. Kina, P. Panchapakeshan, P. Vijayakumar, K-S. Shin, M. Rahman, M. Leuchtenburg, I. Koren, C-O. Chui and C. A. Moritz, "Nanoscale Application Specific Integrated Circuits," (pdf file), Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Intern. Symp. on NanoScale Architectures (NanoArch'11), pp. 99-106, June 2011.
[ARKK11] A. Annamalai, R. Rodrigues, I. Koren, S. Kundu and O. Khan, "Performance per Watt Benefits of Dynamic Core Morphing in Asymmetric Multicores," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'11), Oct. 2011.
[WKK11] H. Wang, I. Koren and C.M. Krishna, "Utilization-Based Resurce Partitioning for Power-Performance Efficiency in SMT Processors,"(pdf file), IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1150-1163, July 2011.
[SKNBKWM10] P. Shabadi, A. Khitun, P. Narayanan, M. Bao, I. Koren, K. L. Wang and C. A. Moritz, "Towards Logic Functions as the Device," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Intern. Sympos. on NanoScale Architectures (NanoArch'10), June 2010.
[VNKKM10] P. Vijayakumar, P. Narayanan, I. Koren, C.M. Krishna and C. A. Moritz, "Incorporating Heterogeneous Redudancy in a Nanoprocessor for Improved Yield and Performance," (pdf file), Proc. of the 2010 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, pp. 273-279, Oct. 2010.
[BPBKR10] A. Barenghi, G. Pelosi, L. Breveglieri, I. Koren and F. Regazzoni, "Low-cost Software Countermeasures Against Fault Attacks: Implementation and Performances Trade offs," (pdf file), Proc. of the 5th workshop on Embedded Security, WESS'2010, Oct. 2010.
[DRKK10] A. Das, R. Rodrigues, I. Koren, and S. Kundu, "A Study on the Performance Benefits of Core Morphing in an Asymmetric Multicore Processor," (pdf file), Proc. of the IEEE Internl. Conference on Computer Design, ICCD'10, Oct. 2010.
[LCCTK10] J. Leung, G. Chapman, Y. Choi, R. Thomas, I. Koren, and Z. Koren, "Analyzing the Impact of ISO on Digital Imager Defects with an Automated Defect Trace Algorithm," (pdf file), Proc. of the 22nd SPIE Electronic Imaging Symp., vol. 7536, pp. 75360F1-F12, Jan. 2010.

Selected List of Prior Publications

Patents and patent applications:
Active pixel with built in self-repair and redundancy
Methods and Apparatus for Detecting Defects in Imaging Arrays by Image Analysis
Reducing processor energy consumption using compile-time information, US Patent 7278136
Controlling a processor resource based on a compile-time prediction of number of instructions-per-cycle that will be executed across plural cycles by the processor, US Patent 6934865




Recent Professional Activities

Associate Editor of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2010 - present

Associate Editor of VLSI Design Journal, 2006 - 2016

Associate Editor of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2006 - 2010

Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 2001 - 2007

Keynote Address, "Detecting and Counteracting Benign Faults and Malicious Attacks in Cyber Physical Systems," International Conf. on Contemporary Computing and Applications, Feb. 5-7, 2020, and 7th International Conf. on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2020), Feb. 27-28, 2020.

Invited talk, "Detecting and counteracting benign faults and malicious attacks in cyber physical systems," 2018 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Oct. 2018.

Keynote Address, "Green Computing through Adaptive Multi-core Architectures," The 8th International Green & Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), October 23-25, 2017.

Invited presentation, ``Monitoring the State of the Physical Plant in a CPS to Detect and Counter Benign Faults and Malicious Attacks," CPS Ed Workshop, July 17-18, 2017.

Keynote Address, "Green Computing through Adaptive Multi-core Architectures," International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), October 8-10, 2015.

Invited Talk, "Defect Reduction and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Integrated Circuits," 7th IEEE Latin America Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS'16), Feb.28-Mar. 2, 2016.

Keynote Address, ``Yield Modeling: Theory and Practice," 2012 IEEE Intern. Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotechnology Systems, Oct. 2012.

IEEE Transactions on Computers, Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, June 2006

Co-General Chair, FDTC 2005 - FDTC 2011 - the Annual Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography

Program Committee Co-Chair, IGCC 2011 - 2nd International Green Computing Conference, August 2011

Program Committee member, the 1993 - 2011 (11th - 20th) IEEE Symposiums on Computer Arithmetic

Program Committee member, 1992- 1997 and 2000 - 2011 International Conferences on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP)

Program Committee member, 1989- 1994 and 1996 - 2011 IEEE International Symposiums on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems

Program Committee member, 2008 - 2011 Euromicro Conferences on Digital System Design (EUROMICRO DSD)

Program Committee member, 2005 - 2011 International Conferences on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO)

General Chair, 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, June 2005

IEEE Transactions on Computers, Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Computer Arithmetic, July 2000

Program Committee Co-Chair, 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, 1999

Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1992 - 1997

General Chair, 1996 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'96), Boston, MA, October 21-23, 1996

General Chair, 1996 IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Boston, MA, November 6-8, 1996



Simulators
Collections of online simulators created by students who have taken my classes.
· Computer Arithmetic Algorithms Simulator
· Computer Architecture Educational Tools
· Fault Tolerant Computing Simulator


Courses
· Computer Architecture
· Fault Tolerant Computing
· Digital Computer Arithmetic
· Introduction to Cryptography
· "FP'Arithmetic 97", a course on Floating-Point Arithmetic with William Kahan (UC Berkeley), at Sun, Mountain View, CA, June 1997 ( Picture 1, Picture 2).


Department, University and Town
· Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
· University of Massachusetts
· Directions (and maps) to the University


My family

· My wife, Zahava Koren
· My older son, Yuval Koren co-founded and was the CEO of SyncUP and Eye-Fi, two startup companies in the Silicon valley, CA.
· My younger son, Yaron Koren is the founder of WikiWorks.



Israel Koren
koren 'at' ecs.umass.edu
Last updated January 2020