Soha Hassoun

Soha Hassoun is an associate professor at Tufts University in the Department of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997. Soha received a BSEE from South Dakota State University in 1986, and a Master's degree from MIT in 1988. Dr. Hassoun's research interest is Computer-Aided Design for integrated circuits. Her current focuses on FinFETs, carbon nanotubes for power delivery, modeling of biochemical pathways, and neuromechanical systems. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Hassoun worked as a chip designer in the microprocessor design group at Digital Equipment Corporation. She was one of the 21064 Alpha processor's main circuit designers. She also designed a commercial cache controller for the VAX 6400, a vector processor, a 3-transistor dynamic RAM at MIT, and a router chip at UW. She spent January-July 2002 at IBM research labs in Austin, and January-December 2007 at Carbon Design Systems, Waltham. Soha is an NSF CAREER award recipient. Soha has served on the technical and executive committees for several conferences and workshops including DAC, ICCAD, IWLS, and TAU. She was the technical Program Chair for ICCAD in 2005 and the General Chair in 2006. Soha served as an associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design and currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Design and Test. Soha was recently selected to serve on the DSSG (Defense Science Study Group), affiliated with the Institute for Defense Analyses. She has served on IEEE's CEDA (Council on Design Automation) technical activities committee since 2005. Soha severed as Director of Educational Activities for ACM's SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation) for several years. In 2007, Soha received the ACM/SIGDA Distinguished Service award for the creation of the PhD Forum at DAC in 1997. Dr. Hassoun is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow. She is a member of ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and Eta Kappa Nu. Some hobbies are not forgotten: dark chocolate and painting. Life is good.