Speaker Bio.: Priyank Kalla received the Bachelors degree in electronics engineering from Sardar Patel University, in 1993, and MS and PhD degrees from the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been a faculty member at the ECE department at the Univ. of Utah. He has also worked at Advanced Micro Devices and the Digital Equipment Corporation (Alpha CAD & Test group). His areas of interest are in Electronic Design Automation and Hardware Verification. He was the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Network Design (CANDE) 2012, and the General Chair of IEEE High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT) 2009. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and the ACM Trans. on Design Automation 2009 best paper award.