Vijaykrishnan Narayanan is currently an associate professor and the director of graduate affairs at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State . He is a member of the Embedded and Mobile Computing Design Center and his research/teaching interests are in the areas of energy-aware reliable systems, nano/VLSI systems and computer architecture. His research is supported by grants from National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, The Technology Collaborative, Department of Energy, and DARPA/MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center.