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Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is happy to announce that Sherief Reda of the School of Engineering has just been given a secondary joint appointment to Brown CS. He joins R. Iris Bahar, Pedro Felzenszwalb, and Ravindra Pendse, who have similar joint status. His collaboration and theirs further strengthen the interdisciplinary approach that the university and both the School of Engineering and Brown CS are known for, offering students numerous new educational and research possibilities. 

Sherief, now Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, joined the Computer Engineering group at Brown in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from University of California, San Diego. He received his B.Sc. (with Honors) and M.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1998 and 2000. His research interests are in the area of computer engineering, with focus on energy-efficient computing systems, design automation and test of integrated circuits, and reconfigurable computing. Prof. Reda has over 60 refereed conference and journal papers (Google scholar profile). He served as a member of technical program committees for many IEEE/ACM conferences including DAC, ICCAD, ASPDAC, DATE, ICCD, GLSVLSI, and SLIP. Professor Reda received a number of awards and acknowledgments, including a best paper award in DATE 2002, a hot article in Operations Research letters in 2004, a first place award in ISPD VLSI placement contest in 2005, best paper nominations in ICCAD 2005, ASPDAC 2008, Brown's Salomon award in 2008, a NSF CAREER award, a best paper award in ISLPED 2010, and a best paper nomination in ICCAD 2015. His research is funded by NSF, DoD, DARPA, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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