She received her MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California, San Diego. Coskun’s research interests are temperature and energy management, 3D stack architectures, computer architecture, embedded systems, and data center energy efficiency. Prof. Coskun worked at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), San Diego prior to her current position at BU. She received the best paper award at IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Conference in 2009 and at High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop in 2011, and she is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. She has served as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. Coskun also writes a bi-monthly column on green computing for the Circuit Cellar magazine.Contact: schaum@vt.edu