About Me


I am an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, where I do research and teach in the general areas of computer architecture and embedded systems design and optimization. My work focuses on creating efficient systems that address the evolving challenges of modern computing.

I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) in 2015, following an MS from UF, B.Eng from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, work as a software developer in Kuwait, and a fair amount of travel in between. My professional background includes a Research Associate internship at HP Labs, where I collaborated with the Chief Engineer, Chandrakant Patel, on research on microprocessor optimizations for IoT applications.

In 2019, I received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for my research on runtime adaptable STTRAM cache memories.

Beyond the lab, I am energized by bridging the gap between technical innovation and real-world implementation. I frequently engage with media, industry leaders, and non-technical audiences to discuss the broader societal and energy implications of emerging technologies, translating complex technical concepts into strategic clarity.

I am an avid traveler and musician who enjoys playing the keyboard and bass guitar, reading non-fiction, writing, thinking about random stuff, and having conversations with random strangers in airports.

Read more about talks/panels I’ve given, my awards/honors, and service activities.

Invited Talks and Panels

  • “Are LLMs Any Good for High-Level Synthesis?” ICCAD 2024, Special Session on AI4HLS.
  • “The electrifying future of hardware brains: the mash-up of Artificial Intelligence, domain-specific architectures, edge computing, and that Internet of Things thing,” AZ SciFi Writers, July 2022
  • “In search of specialization for energy-efficient resource-constrained computing,” Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, March 2022
  • “Emerging architecture designs for energy-efficient resource-constrained computing,” University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, November 2021
  • “The Internet of Things: Overview, Recent Advancements, and Future Trends,” Webinar at SRM College of Engineering and Science, India, September 2020
  • “Architecture Designs for Energy-Efficient and Adaptable STTRAM Cache Hierarchies,” National University of Singapore, School of Computing, October 2019
  • “Emerging Technologies for Right-Provisioned IoT Computing”, Panel, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), May 2019
  • Panel on Academic Career Challenges, Design Automation Conference (DAC) Early Career Workshop, San Francisco CA, June 2018
  • “Potentials of microarchitecture adaptability for performance, energy, and security optimizations,” Emerging Technologies Conference (ETCMOS), Whistler BC, Canada, May 2018
  • “Landscape of the Future: The Internet of Things,” Keynote at SHFM National Conference, Phoenix AZ, September 2016
  • “Dynamic Phase-based Optimization of Embedded Systems,” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada, April 2015
  • Panel Session: Diversity Panel - Central Florida STEM Alliance, Tampa, FL, March 2015

Awards and Honors

  • Thomas R. Brown Endowed Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Arizona, 2025-2028
  • Elected to Senior Member Grade, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2019
  • Award for Excellence at the Student Interface (Teaching Award, ECE Junior Faculty). College of Engineering, University of Arizona, May 2018
  • ACM GLSVLSI Travel Award. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), May 2015
  • Best Paper Award - “Dynamic Phase-based Optimization of Embedded Systems,” Tosiron Adegbija and Ann Gordon-Ross. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), July 2014 - PhD Forum

Service Activities

Conference Organizing and Technical Committees:

  • International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025
  • IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI); TPC Co-Chair, 2024
  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI); Track Chair, VLSI Circuits and Design, 2024
  • International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED); Panels Chair, 2023
  • Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK); Ph.D. Forum Chair, 2022
  • Design Automation Conference; Track Chair - ESS2. Embedded System Design Methodologies, 2022
  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI); Track Co-Chair - VLSI Circuits and Power Aware Design, 2022
  • IEEE/ACM Conference on Hardware/Software Co-Design and Synthesis (CODES); 2017 - Present
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2016 - 2023
  • Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020 - 2023
  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI); 2017 - 2023
  • IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2020
  • IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES); Program Vice Chair, 2020
  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI); Panel Chair, 2019
  • IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS); Posters Chair, 2019
  • International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC); Track Chair - VLSI Design, 2019
  • Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES), 2019
  • IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2019
  • IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2018
  • IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI); 2017, 2018

Journal Reviewer and Editorship:

  • IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), Associate Editor, 2024 - Present
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Associate Editor, 2023 - Present
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
  • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration systems (TVLSI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
  • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TUSC)
  • IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (CEM)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
  • Springer Journal of Supercomputing
  • Elsevier Microelectronics Journal
  • Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Grant Proposal Reviewer/Panelist:

  • Department of Energy (DOE)
  • CSR: Computer Systems Research
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • CCF: Software and Hardware Foundations

Media