Prof. Sparsų is
teaching courses on digital systems, computer architecture and
engineering, and asynchronous (a.k.a. clockless) circuits. His
research interests are in architecture and design
of very large scale integration systems, application specific
computing structures and processors, low power
design techniques, design of asynchronous circuits and systems, and
communication structures for systems-on-chip (i.e., networks-on-chip).
Prof. Sparsų spent the 1995-96 academic year as a visiting
Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. From 1999-2002 he was
the head of the Thomas B. Thrige Center for Microinstruments and
the Graduate School in Microelectronics. From May 2002 to
February 2004 he took part time leave of absence and consulted
for SYCS, a startup company developing a novel general purpose
parallel-processor-on-a-chip architecture targeting DSP intensive
applications.
Prof. Sparsų has been on the steering committees and technical program committees for several conferences. He was the General Chair for PATMOS 1998 and the Program Chair for PATMOS 1999 and ASYNC 2006. He is the coauthor of the book Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design-A Systems Perspective (Kluwer, 2001), and over the years he has given a number of tutorials and short courses on asynchronous circuit design at conferences, universities and companies. He was the recipient of the Radio-Parts Award and the Reinholdt W. Jorck Award in 1992 and 2003, in recognition of his research on integrated circuits and systems. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems in 2005.