Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computer Science and Engineering

Title Department Chair
Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Computer Architecture
Computer Engineering
Computer Science

Web Site

Primary Office Location Jack Baskin Engineering Building
N/A

Additional Location(s) Engineering 2, Room 227

Office Hours Monday, 3:30PM to 4:30PM

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

• Jose Renau (http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~renau) is a professor of computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, low-power and thermal-aware designs, process variability, thread level speculation, FPGA/ASIC design, Fluid Pipelines, Pyrope a modern hardware description language, and Live flows improve the productivity of hardware designs. Renau has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary of Expertise

• Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements and modeling, simulation, FPGA/ASIC design, and mobile pervasive computing.

Research Interests

• Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models
• Infrared thermal measurements and modeling
• Simulation
• FPGA/ASIC design
• Mobile computing