Dr. Irwin has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977 where she currently holds the title of Evan Pugh Professor and A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems. Dr. Irwin received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Chalmers University, Sweden, in 1997, was named a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1995, a Fellow of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1996, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. Dr. Irwin is currently serving as a member of the CRA-W Steering Committee, as a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology, and as a member of Microsoft Research's ER&P Advisory Board. In the past she has served as a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM's
Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM's
Transactions on the Design Automation of Electronic Systems, as an elected member of the CRA's (Computing Research Association) Board of Directors, of the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governors, of ACM's Council, and as Vice President of ACM. Dr. Irwin's complete curriculum vitae is available online via
vitae.pdf. More details on her research (including publications) are available at the Microsystems Design Lab (mdl) group's webpage.
Link to CCSCNE-2007 plenary presentation
slides, April 2007
She and her husband celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in 2006 and (finally!) became grandparents on March 19, 2002.
My Links
- Schedule for my office hours, current teaching and travel schedule
- Courses for the courses I have taught and their slides
- Professional for links to some of the professional service activites I'm involved in
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