Nader Bagherzadeh  Nader Bagherzadeh is a professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as a chair from 1998 to 2003. Bagherzadeh has been involved in research and development in the areas of: Computer Architecture, Reconfigurable Computing, VLSI Chip Design, Network-on-Chip, 3D chips, Sensor Networks, Computer Graphics, Memory and Embedded Systems. Bagherzadeh was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to the design and analysis of coarse-grained reconfigurable processor architectures". Bagherzadeh has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He was with AT&T Bell Labs from 1980 to 1984.