Silicon Press: Silicon Press Author Bios: Dinesh Mehta

Dinesh P. Mehta received the B. Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1987, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Florida in 1992. He was on the faculty at the University of Tennessee Space Institute from 1992-2000, where he received the Vice President's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997. He was a Visiting Professor at Intel's Strategic CAD Labs in 1996 and 1997. He has been with the Mathematical and Computer Sciences department at the Colorado School of Mines since 2000, where he is currently Professor and Assistant Department Head. Dr. Mehta is a co-editor (with Sartaj Sahni) of the Handbook on Data Structures and Applications. His research interests are in VLSI design automation, and applied algorithms and data structures. He has published 30 journal and conference papers, several of which appear in IEEE and ACM Transactions. He is a Senior Memberof the IEEE and a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I.