Diana Marculescu is Department Chair, Cockrell Family Chair for Engineering Leadership #5, and Professor, Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2 at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as the David Edward Schramm Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was Founding Director of the College of Engineering Center for Faculty Success (2015-2019) and Associate Department Head for Academic Affairs (2014-2018). Her educational background includes: Dipl.Ing. degree in computer science from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania (1991) Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1998) Dr. Marculescu's research bridges hardware design and machine learning, focusing on energy- and reliability-aware computing, hardware-aware machine learning, and computing for sustainability. She leads the EnyAC (ENergY Aware Computing) research group and founded the iMAGiNE Consortium for industry-university collaboration in engineering intelligent machines from cloud to edge. Her work addresses the critical need for efficient AI systems across diverse hardware platforms. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong trend toward hardware-efficient machine learning, with emphasis on neural architecture search, model compression, and energy-aware deep learning systems. Her research tackles the fundamental challenge of co-designing machine learning models and hardware to achieve optimal performance and efficiency. Dr. Marculescu has received numerous prestigious awards: National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2000-2004) ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award (2003) Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2004) IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005) Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2013-2017) Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award (2014) Barbara Lazarus Award from Carnegie Mellon University (2018) Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS Dr. Marculescu has advised more than a dozen doctoral students, 35+ master students, and more than two dozen undergraduates. Her research has been supported by significant grants including the NSF Career Award and Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. She has served as Technical Program Chair and General Chair for multiple major conferences including ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, and IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. She leads the EnyAC research group which focuses on sustainable computing and computing for sustainability, and founded the iMAGiNE Consortium to foster industry-university collaboration in engineering intelligent machines from cloud to edge.









