Lizy John
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellow in Electrical Engineering No. 2
Phone: (512) 232-1455
Fax: (512) 471-5532
Email: ljohn@ece.utexas.edu
Dr. John’s Web site
Dr. Lizy John earned her Ph.D. in computer engineering from Pennsylvania
State University in 1993. She joined the faculty of The University of Texas at
Austin in 1996. That year she won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from
the National Science Foundation.
Dr. John’s research centers around designing high-performance, low-power
microprocessors and computer systems. Her lab studies emerging computer
applications and their performance demands. For example, she investigates the
performance impact of e-business workloads that integrating a variety of software
standards and protocols to support the Web portal, shopping cart, credit card
transactions, security software layers and more. When microprocessors and computers
are in the pre-silicon design stages, they cannot be tested with actual applications
with these various layers. John’s team has developed a technique to clone
full-blown applications to create miniature versions that can be
executed on early design models to accurately estimate performance and
power. John’s team is also working to make the Java programming language more
efficient on embedded platforms such as mobile phones.
Research Interests:
- Design of high-performance, low-power microprocessors
- Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
- Workload characterization
- Adaptive computing