His current research focuses on high-level design automation for heterogeneous computing. His work has been recognized with a best paper award from TODAES (2012), the Ross Freeman award for technical innovation from Xilinx (2012), an NSF CAREER award (2015), a DARPA Young Faculty Award (2015), the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award (2015). He co-founded AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. to commercialize his PhD dissertation research on high-level synthesis. AutoESL was acquired by Xilinx in 2011 and the AutoESL tool was rebranded as Vivado HLS after the acquisition.