Bio

Paul Franzon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. He has also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, DSTO Australia, Australia Telecom and four companies he co-founded, Communica, LightSpin Technologies, Indago technologies and Polymer Braille Inc. His interests focus on the design of digital integrated circuits, including computer-aided design technologies. Current and recent projects including applying machine learning to EDA, building programmable machine learning and cortical accelerators, new methods for RFID, approaches for design obfuscation, novel Serdes design techniques, 3DIC design and CAD, emerging computation paradigms, and novel approaches to advanced packaging. He has published over 300 papers in these and related areas. In 1993 he received an NSF Young Investigators Award, in 2001 was selected to join the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers, in 2003, selected as a Distinguished Alumni Professor, received the Alcoa Research Award in 2005, and the Board of Governors Teaching Award in 2014. He served with the Australian Army Reserve for 13 years as an Infantry Solider and Officer. This included two years of detachment to the NJ and NC Army National Guards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.