Tony Givargis
Summary
Tony Givargis is a Computer Science Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he is currently serving as the Department Chair. From 2011 until 2016, he served as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Information & Computer Sciences at UCI. He received his BS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He Co-Founded a VC-backed technology startup in 2013 and has served as an expert witness in a number of high profile legal proceedings. Professor Givargis conducts research in the general area of embedded systems with an emphasis on system software, advanced compilation for targeted applications, computational storage devices, accelerators and high dimensional computing. He has authored over 120 peer reviewed papers, is a named inventor on 13 issued US patents and has co-authored two popular textbooks on embedded systems design. Professor Givargis has received numerous teaching, service and research awards, including the Frederick Emmons Terman Award, presented annually to an outstanding young electrical engineering educator by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.