Gabriela Nicolescu obtained her PhD Degree in 2002 from INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) France, with the award for the Best Microelectronic Thesis of the year.
Her research interests are related to the design methodologies, programming models and security for advanced heterogeneous systems on chip integrating advanced technologies such as optical networks on chip or liquid cooling systems.
The Pardee Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Past Chair, CS Division; Past Chair, Computing Research Association; Past President, Association for Computing Machinery. Best known projects are Reduced Instruction Set Computers, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, and Network of Workstations. All helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. Elected Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Computer History Museum; IEEE von Neumann Medal; NEC C&C Prize .
Arun K. Somani research interests are fault tolerant computing and networking systems, scalable architectures and algorithms for WDM optical networks and parallel computer system architecture. He is active in professional society activities. He has served as an IEEE distinguished visitor and tutorial speaker. He was elected as a Distinguished Engineer of ACM in 2006, a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks in 1999, and a fellow of AAAS in 2012.