Iris Bahar
Associate Professor of Engineering
R. Iris Bahar received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer
engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the
University of Colorado, Boulder. Before entering the Ph.D program at
CU-Boulder, she was with Digital Equipment Corporation, responsible
for the hardware implementation of their latest processor. In 1996 she
joined the Division of Engineering, Brown University, as an Assistant
Professor. In 2003 she was promoted to Associate Professor. Iris
Bahar's research interests lie broadly in the areas of computer
architecture, electronic design automation, and digital circuit
design. In particular, she is working on developing new approaches to
reduce power dissipation and improve reliability in high-performance
processors, including multiprocessors and nanocomputing systems. In
addition, she is working on methods to improve the accuracy of timing
analyzers used for verifying circuits designs.