Austin Rovinski

Austin Rovinski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He specializes in chip design, electronic design automation (EDA), and open-source hardware methodologies. His research focuses on VLSI design, domain-specific accelerators, and chiplet-based systems. Prior to NYU, he held a postdoctoral position at Cornell University and earned all his degrees (Ph.D., M.S., and B.S.) from the University of Michigan.

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• Master’s, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• Bachelor’s, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Research Focus:

• Developing open-source EDA frameworks like OpenROAD
• Optoelectronic interconnect systems for 2.5D packaging
• Agile hardware design methodologies
• Reconfigurable sparse matrix accelerators
• RISC-V-based manycore processors (e.g., Celerity project)

Key Contributions: Austin led the development of the OpenROAD RTL-to-GDS flow and contributed to the Sirius and Celerity projects. His work emphasizes reproducibility, democratizing chip design through open-source tools.

Awards:

• IEEE Micro Top Picks (2015)
• Michigan EECS Outstanding Research Award (2016)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (2017, 2018)

Advising & Grants: Actively mentors graduate students in chip design and EDA. His research is supported by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and collaborations with industry partners.

Labs & Teams: Core contributor to the OpenROAD project, part of NYU’s hardware design and EDA initiatives, and collaborator on the Celerity manycore processor project.