My research interests are primarily in the field of VLSI-CAD. They include FPGA physical design, reconfigurable computing, and ASIC floorplanning/placement. I do some FPGA designs as well. In the past couple of years, I have focused on Stochastic Computing, which uses an analog-like encoding scheme: numbers are represented by streams of 1’s and 0’s. The ratio of 1’s to the length of the stream shows the value as a “probability”. Simple logic can perform complex operations on stochastic streams (e.g., an AND gate can multiply two probabilities).