James C. Hoe is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 (S.M., 1994). He received his B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1992. He is a Fellow of IEEE. Dr. Hoe is interested in many aspects of computer architecture and digital hardware design, including the specific areas of FPGA architecture for computing; digital signal processing hardware; and high-level hardware design and synthesis. He was a contributor to RAMP (Research Acceleratorfor Multiple Processors). He worked on the ProtoFlex FPGA-accelerated simulation project between 2005 and 2011 with Eric S. Chung, Michael K. Papamichael, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Babak Falsafi, and Ken Mai. Earlier, he worked on the SMARTS sampling simulation project.