Florin Balasa received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the Polytechnical University of Bucharest in 1981 and 1994, respectively.
He received the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University
of Bucharest, Romania, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree
in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium, in 1995.
He has worked over seven years at the Research Institute for Electronic
Components, Bucharest, Romania. From 1990 to 1995 he has
worked at the VLSI System Design Methodology (VSDM / DESICS) division,
the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium.
In the fall of 1995 he joined the Advanced Technology division,
Conexant Systems Inc. (former Rockwell Semiconductor Systems), Newport Beach, California,
as a senior design automation engineer.
From 1996 to 1997 he was also a lecturer
at the University of California, Irvine.
Since January 2000, Dr. Balasa is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science and (by courtesy) of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
His research interests lie in the areas of high-level synthesis
and system-level exploration, physical design automation,
mathematical programming & combinatorial optimization techniques and applications in CAD VLSI,
data dependence analysis and code restructuring.
Dr. Balasa is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (see research project).