Nader Bagherzadeh is a professor of computer engineering in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as a chair from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Bagherzadeh has been involved in research and development in the areas of: computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, VLSI chip design, network-on-chip, 3D chips, sensor networks, computer graphics, memory and embedded systems, since he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Professor Bagherzadeh has published more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His former students have assumed key positions in software and computer systems design companies in the past thirty years. He has been a PI or Co-PI on more than $10 million worth of research grants for developing next generation computer systems for applications in general purpose computing and digital signal processing as well as other related areas.

Professor Bagherzadeh has published more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His former students have assumed key positions in software and computer systems design companies in the past thirty years. He has been a PI or Co-PI on more than $10 million worth of research grants for developing next generation computer systems for applications in general purpose computing and digital signal processing as well as other related areas.