His research interests include system-level design methodologies and software tools for SoC design, on-chip communication, multimedia, and ambient intelligence. Marculescu has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He received the National Science Foundation's Career Award for design automation of electronic systems in 2001 and the Carnegie Institute of Technology's Ladd Research Award in 2002. He also received best-paper awards from the 2001 and 2003 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conferences and the 2003 Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.