ASIM SMAILAGIC

Dr. Asim Smailagic is a research professor in the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon. He is also director of the Laboratory for Interactive Computer Systems at Carnegie Mellon, which has designed and built more than two dozen generations of novel wearable computers and several pioneering prototypes of context-aware computing systems. Dr. Smailagic is a chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems. He has been a program chairman of IEEE conferences more than ten times. Dr. Smailagic has acted as co-editor, associate editor, and guest editor in leading archival technical journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal on VLSI Signal Processing and Journal on Pervasive Computing. He is widely recognized for his contributions to the design and rapid prototyping of wearable computers and pervasive context-aware computing systems, as well as to an interdisciplinary concurrent design methodology used for rapid prototyping of these new classes of computer systems. He received the Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship in computer science in 1988, and spent it at Carnegie Mellon.

Dr. Smailagic received the 2000 Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science (with Dan Siewiorek) for revolutionizing hardware-software co-design through the creation and demonstration of task-specific wearable computers, for developing a rapid prototyping methodology for such systems and for demonstrating applications of wearable computers. He also received the 2003 Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence in Information Technology, the 2003 Steve Fenves Systems Research Award from the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering and other prestigious awards. Professor Smailagic has written or edited books in the areas of mobile computing, digital system design, field programmable gate arrays and VLSI systems. For example, he is co-author of the book on Rapid Design and Prototyping of Digital Systems Using Field Programmable Logic, which has been used as a textbook at over three dozen universities worldwide. He gave keynote and invited lectures at many representative international conferences and institutions, such as the Royal Academy of Engineering, Great Britain. His recent research projects include Wearable Computer Systems, Smart Module Computers, Communicator, RADAR Personal Assistant that Learns, Aura Pervasive Self-Tuning Computing System, and Quality of Life Technologies. Some of the recent and ongoing projects have introduced wearable, pervasive, and context computing to the automotive industry, the health care industry, the services industry and the military.