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.

I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) in May 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Ann Ramirez (Gordon-Ross). I received my M.Sc degree from the University of Florida in 2011, and my B.Eng degree from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria in 2005. Between 2005 and 2009, I traveled, worked as a software developer in Kuwait, and did a bunch of other stuff.

In 2014, I was a Research Associate intern at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs, where I had the opportunity to work directly with HP's Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow, Chandrakant Patel, and several other really cool people.

In 2019, I received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for my research on runtime adaptable STTRAM cache memories. I am grateful for my hardworking students and to the NSF for the support.

There have been some media stories/interviews about my research: UA News, KGUN9 News, Arizona Public Media (AZPM) Science Podcast. More...

Outside of doing research, I enjoy traveling, playing the keyboard, bass guitar, reading non-fiction, writing, playing volleyball, 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

"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

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:

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 - Present
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020 - Present
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI); 2017 - Present
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