• Ph.D., computer engineering, Southern Methodist University, August 1995
• M.S., computer science, Southern Methodist University, May 1993
• M.S., electrical engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, May 1990
• B.S., electrical engineering, Oklahoma State University, December 1985

• 2006 to Present: Professor, Associate Professor (2002-2006), Southern Methodist University, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, and by courtesy, Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
• Engineering Consultant, Mitchell A. Thornton, P.E., specializing in Intellectual Property expert analysis and contract engineering design projects.
• 1999 to 2002: Associate Professor, Mississippi State University, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 1995 to 1999: Associate Professor (1999), Assistant Professor (1995-1999), University of Arkansas, Dept of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor (appointed July 1, 1996), Dept of Electrical Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor (appointed August 1997) Dept of Computer Science, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
• 1991 to 1995: Teaching/Research Assistant, Southern Methodist University, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Dallas, Texas
• Summer of 1992: Design Engineer, Cyrix Inc., (now Via Technologies) Richardson, Texas
• 1986 to 1991: Sr. Electronics Systems Engineer, E-Systems Inc., (now L-3 Communications Integrated Systems) Greenville, Texas
• Summers of 82, 83, 84: Research Technician, Amoco Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma (now BP Amoco, relocated to Houston, Texas)

• Book series editor of the Digital Circuits and Systems series for Morgan-Claypool Publishers (since October 2005).
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Highly Reliable Electronic Systems, (since March 2007)
• Chair (2009-present), Vice Chair (2002-2008), Member (1998-2002), EPE subcommitte working group member for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (Problem writing/reviewing for the national electrical PE test).
• Chair (2009-present), Member (2003-2008) of IEEE-USA Committee on Licensure and Registration. Responsible for advising IEEE-USA on issues regarding licensure and registration of professional engineers.
• Member in "at-large" position (2007-2009) of the Multiple Valued Logic IEEE Technical Committee (MVL-TC)
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas
• FCC Licenses: Commercial General Radiotelephone Operator License (GROL) with ship radar endorsement, call sign PG00028247; Amateur Radio Operator (Ham) license, Extra Class, call sign KE5CDJ; General Mobile Radio License (GMRS), call sign WQBX350.
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Chapter Advisor of the Kappa Chapter at Southern Methodist University, 2005 to 2009.
• Paper/Proposal Reviewing: NSF Proposals, Various IEEE, ACM and IEE Journals and Sponsored Conference Proceedings
• Membership: IEEE (senior member), IEEE Computer Society, ACM, ACM-SIGDA, ASEE, IET (formerly IEE)
• Conference and Workshop Leadership Positions:
• General Chair 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic
• General Co-Chair, 2007 IEEE Dallas Workshop on Circuits and Systems
• General Chair 2001 Workshop on Reed-Muller Circuit Design
• Program Committee Member 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic
• Program Committee Member 2008 IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI
• Program Committee Member 2007 IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI
• Program Committee Member 2006 IEEE Dallas Workshop on Circuits and Systems
• Program Committee Member 2006 IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI
• Program Committee Member 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic
• Program Committee Member 2006 Workshop on Future Computing Technologies
• Member, 2006 WSEAS Working Group on Computers
• Program Committee Member 2002 IEEE Midwest Symposium Circuits & Systems
• Program Committee Member 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009 Reed-Muller Workshop
• Publicity Chair 1999 Int. Workshop Parallel and Dist. RT Systems, IPPS-SPDP-WPDRTS'99
• Program Committee Member 1998 IPPS-SPDP-WPDRTS'98
• University Service:
• (SMU)  Senator (Lyle Engineering position) (2009-2012)
• (SMU)  Senator (at-large position) (2004-2007)
• (SMU)  Senate Academic Policy Committee (2009-2012)
• (SMU)  Provost's Information Technology Advisory Council (2009-2012)
• (SMU)  Provost's Quality Enhancement Plan Selection Committee (2009)
• (SMU)  Provost's Promotion and Tenure Committee (2008-2011)
• (SMU)  Chair CSE Department Faculty Search Committee (2009-2010)
• (SMU)  Coordinator, ABET Computer Engineering program re-accreditation (2006-2009)
• (SMU)  Member University Intellectual Property and Patents Committee (2004-2008)
• (SMU)  Member All-University Finance Committee (2004-2007)
• (SMU)  Chair School of Engineering Academic Affairs Committee (2007-2008)
• (SMU)  Member School of Engineering Academic Affairs Committee (2003-2007)
• (SMU)  Chair CSE Department Undergraduate Program Committee (2005-2007)
• (SMU)  Member CSE Department Undergraduate Program Committee (2007-2010)
• (SMU)  Chair CSE Department Faculty Affairs Committee (2004-2005)
• (SMU)  Chair CSE Department Faculty Search Committee (2004-2005)
• (SMU)  Member CSE Department Graduate Program Committee (2002-2005)
• (SMU)  Founding Faculty Advisor CSE Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society (2003-2009)
• External Tenure-case Reviewer for Several Universities
• External Ph.D. and M.S. Committee Member for Several Universities
• Participation in 3 different ABET accreditation visits under the new criteria
• Active involvement in Senior Design Classes
• Numerous other committee assignments in past

• Design and Implementation of OBDD Variable Ordering/Reordering Methods, National Science Foundation, September 1996, CCR-9633085, transferred to CCR-0096055 (PI).
• Design and Simulation of a Processing Element Node for a Decoupled Multi-Threaded Computer, Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, October 1996, 97-B-12, (PI).
• Infrastructure and Faculty Fellowship Request for Configurable Computing, Arkansas Space Grant Consortium/NASA, October 1997, (PI).
• High Speed Parallel Fiber Optic Data Bus Components for NMP, Optical Networks, Inc., July 1998, (Co-PI).
• Implementation of ASM using an FPGA Based Co-processor, Acxiom Corporation with 100% match from the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, 99-A-01, September 1998, (PI).
• U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Spectral Techniques in VLSI CAD Using AND/OR Graphs, National Science Foundation, March 1999, INT-9815371, transferred to INT-0096008 (PI).
• Development of Integrated Passive Components, Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, 99-A-06, April 1, 1999, (Co-PI).
• Query Optimization Using Automated Logic Synthesis Techniques, Mississippi State University Research Initiation Program, January 1, 2000-December 31, 2000, (PI).
• Statistical Equivalence Checking Using Partial Haar Spectral Diagrams, National Science Foundation, June 2000, CCR-0000891, transferred to CCR-0243358 (PI).
• Self-timed FPGA Systems, National Science Foundation, June 2001, CCR-0098272, (Co-PI).
• Evolutionary Algorithms for Symbolic FSM Equivalence Checking, National Science Foundation, June 2001, CCR-0097246, transferred to CCR-0243365 (PI)
• An Integrated Approach for Circuit Design Validation, Texas State Advanced Technology Program,  January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005, 003613-0029-2003 (Co-PI).
• Laboratory Educational Equipment Request, SMU President's Partner Grant Program, May 7, 2004, (PI).
• Product Development Process Improvement Research, Lockheed-Martin, Missiles and Fire-Control Division, Grand Prairie, Texas, 10/01/05, (Co-PI).
• Re-engineering Not-for-profit Technical Organizations for Transition to Market-Driven Enterprises: Strategies, Models, and Application to the Technical Information Center, Signal Technologies Inc. (subcontractor to U.S. Army, Information Systems Engineering Command), 07/01/05, (Co-PI).
• Large Systems Design and the Axiomatic Process, Office of Naval Research (ONR), April 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009, N000140910784 (PI).
• Basic Recruitment Proposal, Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (DoD IASP), August 1, 2009 - July 31, 2010, H98230-09-1-0396, (Co-PI).

• Membership in Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies
• 1994 Frederick R. Terman award for outstanding Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern Methodist University
• Best paper award in the 1994 IEEE International Verilog HDL Conference
• Texas Instruments Outstanding Researcher in the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas, (1996-1997 and 1997-1998)
• Outstanding Researcher in the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas, (1998-1999)
• J. Lindsey Embrey Chair Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (2004 through 2005)
• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, awarded by the Graduate Student Council of Southern Methodist University, April 21, 2005.
• Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, May 12, 2005.
• HOPE (Honoring Our Professors Excellence) Professor, in Spring 2006, Fall 2006, and Fall 2009, awarded by students on behalf of the SMU student residence organization.
• 2006 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, awarded by the Student Engineering Joint Council (SEJC is composed of undergraduate students).
• Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, awarded by the Graduate Student Council of Southern Methodist University, April 22, 2008.
• Inventor Recognition Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation, April 2009.

• 2006 to present: Professor, (2002 to 2006: Associate Professor), Southern Methodist University, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, and, by courtesy, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Dallas, Texas. Undergraduate/graduate level teaching, research and service.
• 1999 to 2002: Associate Professor, Mississippi State University, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Starkville, Mississippi. Undergraduate/graduate level teaching, research and service.
• 1995 to 1999: Associate Professor (1999), Assistant Professor (1995-1999), University of Arkansas, Dept of Computer Systems Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor (appointed July 1, 1996), Dept of Electrical Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor (appointed August 1997) Dept of Computer Science, Fayettville, Arkansas. Undergraduate/graduate level teaching, research and service. The Department of Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science have since been merged as the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
• Summer of 1992: Engineer at Cyrix, Inc. Aided in the RTL level design of the bus controller for the M1 microprocessor, a Pentium class chip. Generated operating systems level test code in X86 assembler to perform tasks such as page fault handling, overflow exception handling, testing of cache and branch prediction circuitry.
• 17 April 1989 to 9 August 1991: Senior Electronic Systems Engineer in the Special Systems group at E-Systems. Responsible for calibrating, maintaining and upgrading airborne direction finding systems. Performed Systems level design and integration of RF airborne equipment. These duties also included interacting with subcontractors and customers.
• 23 July 1986 to 17 April 1989: Engineer/Analyst in the Analytical Techniques group at E-Systems. Responsibilities included modeling of communication systems and emitter location techniques, signal analysis, analysis of the capabilities of various error correction and detection codes, analysis, design and flight test of direction finding systems, radome and antenna system analysis and interfacing test equipment to minicomputers.
• Summers of 1984, 1985: Research Technician at Amoco Research Center in the Modeling and Inversion group. Duties included using existing geophysical modeling and inversion computer programs and developing new programs under the supervision of a Geophysicist.
• Summers of 1982, 1983: Research Technician at Amoco Research Center in the Seismometer Recorder Group. Duties included maintenance and repair of prototype circuits and the development of a Z-80 based automated power supply testing system.

• 11/08 to 02/09: Jones-Day Law Firm, Dallas, Texas
• 03/08 to 10/08: Irell & Manella, LLP, Newport Beach, California
• 01/06 to 03/06: Godwin, Pappas, Langley and Ronquillo, LLP, Houston, Texas
• 10/05 to 02/06: Jones-Day Law Firm, Dallas, Texas
• 08/05 to 10/05: Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel, Mason and Gette, LLP, Dallas, Texas
• 10/04 to 02/05: Merchant & Gould, LLP, Seattle, Washington
• 06/03 to 07/04: Lynn, Tillotson, and Pinker, LLP, Dallas, Texas
• 04/00 to 05/00: Space Photonics, Incorporated, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 06/99 to 08/99: Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, Springdale, Arkansas
• 07/98 to 08/98: Acxiom Corporation, Conway, Arkansas
• 11/97 to 01/98: Eclipse Electronic Systems, Inc., Richardson, Texas
• 11/95 to 12/96: Compendium Company, L.L.C., Dallas, Texas