Ryan Kastner Current Information Teaching Research Publications Professional Activity Biography Biography Curriculum Vitae (pdf) - last updated 2.8.2006 Technical Biography Ryan is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He received a PhD in Computer Science (2002) at UCLA, a masters degree in engineering (2000) and bachelor degrees (BS) in both electrical engineering and computer engineering (1999), all from Northwestern University.  His current research interests lie in the realm of embedded system design, in particular, the use of reconfigurable computing devices for digital signal processing. Professor Kastner has published over 70 technical articles, and is the author of the book, “Synthesis Techniques and Optimizations for Reconfigurable Systems”, available from Kluwer Academic Publishing (now Springer).  He is a member of numerous conference technical committees including the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design, Automation and Test in Europe, GLOBECOM, the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA) and the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).  He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Embedded Computing.  Short Biography Ryan is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He received a PhD in Computer Science at UCLA, a masters degree (MS) in engineering and bachelor degrees (BS) in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, all from Northwestern University.  He was born in Greensburg, PA and has spent his entire life moving westward - first to Medina, OH, then to Chicago, Los Angeles and currently Santa Barbara.  His current research interests lie in the realm of embedded system design, in particular, the use of  reconfigurable computing devices for digital signal processing. Webpage Design Copyright © 2002 The Regents of the University of California Contact: Ryan Kastner - All rights reserved, All wrongs reversed.