Miodrag Potkonjak received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1991. In 1991,
he joined Computer & Communication Research Laboratories, NEC USA, Princeton, NJ.  Since 1995, he has been with Computer Science Department
at UCLA, until 1998 as Assistant Professor, then as Associate, and since July 2000 as Professor.

He received the NSF CAREER award, OKAWA foundation award, UCLA TRW SEAS Excellence in Teaching Award and a number of best paper awards. He has published more than 200 papers in leading CAD and VSLI design, real-time systems, multimedia, signal processing, computational security,
and communications, journals and conferences. He hold 5 patents. He has been serving on a number of Program Committees, including International Conference on Image Processing, Design Automation Conference, Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference, ASP-DAC, International Conference on Computer Design and International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. His recent watermarking-based intellectual property protection research formed a basis for the Virtual Socket Initiative Alliance developing standard. His behavioral synthesis tools have been used at the number of Universities and companies worldwide. His testing and low power tools have been used at several companies.

His research interests include embedded systems, communication designs, ad hoc sensor networks, computational security, and intellectual property protection.