Miriam Leeser

Professor
Dept of ECE
Northeastern University
Office: 316 Dana Research Center
Phone: (617)373-3814
Fax: (617)373-8970
Email
Research: Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory (RCL)

Miriam Leeser is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. She received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and Diploma and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from Cambridge University in England. After completion of her Ph.D., she joined the faculty of Cornell University, Department of Electrical Engineering. In January, 1996 she joined the faculty of Northeastern University, where she is Director of the Northeastern University Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory (RCL) and a member of the Computer Engineering group. In 1992 she received an NSF Young Investigator Award. Throughout her career she has been funded by both government agencies and companies, and is currently funded by DARPA, the NSF, Google, and Mathworks. She has served on the Mathworks industrial advisory board for more than five years. She is associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Systems, the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, and the International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. She is a senior member of ACM, a senior member of IEEE and a senior member of SWE. She was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2018: Faster Connections on the Fly


Research

Dr. Miriam Leeser is the Director of the Northeastern University Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory (RCL). Details of her projects and publications are available on the lab web page. Her research focuses on:

  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
  • Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
  • Software Defined Radio, implementations for wireless technology and IoT
  • Programming paradigms for heterogeneous computers
  • Computer arithmetic
  • Reproducibility in high performance computing

Honors and Awards

  • Leeser named a Fulbright Scholar in 2018: Faster Connections on the Fly
  • Best paper award, Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, 2011.
  • Best paper award, High Performance Embedded Computing Conference, 2007.
  • National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, 1992.

Curriculum Vitae

[pdf] (updated October 2020)


News

  • Leeser named Fulbright Scholar in 2018: Faster Connections on the Fly
  • Miriam Leeser is one of the technical program chairs for FPL 2018.
  • Chao Liu's paper, "Local and Global Shared Memory for Task Based HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms" has been accepted at PDP 2018.
  • Chao Liu successfully defends his PhD dissertation: "Unified Tasks and Conduits for Programming on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms" December 2017.
  • Kai Huang successfully defends his MS thesis: "K-means Parallelism on FPGA" December 2017.
  • Xin Fang successfully defends his PhD dissertation: "Privacy Preserving Computations Accelerated using FPGA Overlays"August 2017.

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