Ogras elevated to IEEE fellow

Umit Y. Ogras, the Gene Amdahl Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to research into networks-on-chip for heterogeneous manycore architectures.

The IEEE is the world’s foremost professional association for advancing technology for humanity. With more than 400,000 members from 160 countries, the association is a leading authority in a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.

IEEE fellows comprise the top one-tenth of one-percent of the total membership, an honor bestowed by the IEEE board of directors only to researchers with outstanding records of accomplishment.

Ogras’s research focuses on energy and computational efficiency. To that end, his lab explores a wide range of areas, including developing methodology and tools to design flexible hybrid electronics and human-machine communication to improve technologies including prosthetic arms, wheelchairs and IoT devices. He also focuses on the development of multiprocessor systems-on-chip and state-of-the-art mobile platforms.