Andre DeHon, a professor in the departments of electrical & systems engineering and computer & information science in Penn Engineering, is among the members of the IEEE Computer Society to be elevated to IEEE fellow status for his “contributions to reconfigurable computing and FPGAs.”

The IEEE Board of Directors confers the title of fellow upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, who has made important individual contributions to one or more of those fields. The elevation to fellow recognizes exceptional distinction in the engineering profession.

Dr. DeHon is broadly interested in how humans physically implement computations from substrates, including VLSI and molecular electronics, up through architecture, CAD, and programming models. In addition to performance, cost, and energy, his work addresses security and defect and variation tolerance. He places special emphasis on spatial programmable architectures (e.g. FPGAs) and interconnect design and optimization. He is also a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was recognized as one of Technology Review’s 100 young innovators in 2003.