Joseph Zambreno (email, homepage) has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University since 2006, where he is currently a Professor. Prior to joining ISU he was at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he graduated with his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002, and his B.S. degree summa cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2001. His research interests include computer architecture, compilers, embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, and hardware/software co-design, with a focus on run-time reconfigurable architectures and compiler techniques for software protection.

Phillip H. Jones (email, homepage) received his B.S. degree in 1999 and M.S. degree in 2002 in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. degree in 2008 in computer engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, where he has been since 2008. His research interests are in adaptive computing systems, reconfigurable hardware, embedded systems, and hardware architectures for application-specific acceleration.