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Biography

Ronald DeMara is a Pegasus Professor at the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been a full-time faculty member since 1993. DeMara's research interests include computer architecture, post-CMOS devices, and reconfigurable computing fabrics. He has applied these to autonomous, embedded and intelligent/neuromorphic systems, on which he has completed more than 320 articles and 50 funded projects as PI or Co-PI totaling $14.2 million, with one patent granted and one provisional patent. DeMara has served as a Ph.D. and M.S. thesis advisor to 50 graduates. He was previously an associate engineer at IBM and a visiting research scientist at NASA Ames, and has been a registered professional engineer since 1992. He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community, which recognizes outstanding efforts to advance science and its applications.

Recent Publications

  • R. A. Ashraf and R. F. DeMara, “Scalable FPGA Refurbishment using Netlist-driven Evolutionary Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 1526 – 1541, August 2013.
  • N. Imran, J. Lee, and R. F. DeMara, “Fault Demotion Using Reconfigurable Slack (FaDReS),” IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1364–1368, July 2013.
  • C. A. Sharma, A. Sarvi, A. Al-Zahrani, and R. F. DeMara, “Self-Healing Reconfigurable Logic using Autonomous Group Testing,” Microprocessors and Microsystems, Volume 37, Issue 2, March 2013, pp. 174 – 184.
  • N. Imran, R. F. DeMara, J. Lee, and J. Huang, "Self-Adapting Resource Escalation for Resilient Signal Processing Architectures," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, pp. 1-24, July, 2013 doi: 10.1007/s11265-013-0811-x
  • R.S. Oreifej and R.F. DeMara, “Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Platform For Digital Circuit Design And Repair Using Genetic Algorithms,” Applied Soft Computing, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2012.03.032, Vol. 12, Issue 8, August 2012, pp. 2470 – 2480.
  • R.S. Oreifej and R.F. DeMara, “Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Platform For Digital Circuit Design And Repair Using Genetic Algorithms,” Applied Soft Computing, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2012.03.032, Vol. 12, Issue 8, August 2012, pp. 2470 – 2480.
  • R.S. Oreifej and R.F. DeMara, “Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Platform For Digital Circuit Design And Repair Using Genetic Algorithms,” Applied Soft Computing, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2012.03.032, Vol. 12, Issue 8, August 2012, pp. 2470 – 2480.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

Specialties

  • Computer Systems Design and Architecture
  • Emerging Computing Devices for Machine Learning
  • Adaptive and Reconfigurable Hardware