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Jean-Luc Gaudiot received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from ESIEE, Paris,
France, in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science
from UCLA in 1977 and 1982, respectively.  He is currently a Professor
in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at
University of California, Irvine.  Prior to joining UCI in 2002, he
was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Southern California since 1982.  His research interests include
multithreaded architectures, fault-tolerant multiprocessors, and
implementation of reconfigurable architectures.  He has published over
250 journal and conference papers.  His research has been sponsored by
NSF, DoE, and DARPA, as well as industry.  He has served the community
in various positions and was just elected to the presidency of the
IEEE Computer Society for 2017. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a
Fellow of the AAAS.