Alexandru Nicolau ’s research is in the areas of Parallel Processing/ILP, and Embedded Systems/Design Automation. His interests focus on Computer Performance/power tradeoffs, parallelizing compilers, GPUs. His current work involves collaborations both within and outside UCI, most recently with researchers at Stanford, University of Michigan, UCLA, UCSD as part of a flagship NSF Expedition project, and a separate grant with UIUC. He authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers and several books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Parallel Processing, and an IEEE Fellow.