Trevor Mudge received the Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1977.
Since 1977, he has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He recently was named the first Bredt Family Professor of  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science after concluding a ten years term as the Director
of the Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory -- a group of eight faculty and about 70 graduate students. He is author of numerous papers on computer architecture, programming languages, VLSI design, and computer vision. He has also chaired about 30 theses in these research areas. His research interests include computer architecture, computer-aided design, and compilers. In addition to his position as a faculty member, he runs Idiot Savants, a chip design consultancy, and he is technical advisor to several venture firms.  Trevor Mudge is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, the IEE, and the British Computer Society.