In May 2005, Ron received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois while working with Professor Wen-mei Hwu in the IMPACT research group. Before his time at the University of Illinois, Ron graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. Ron has published in several journals, symposia and workshops on topics including complexity-effective microarchitectures, program-phase detection, and binary and run-time optimization. His research interests additionally include compiler and feedback-directed optimization techniques for multi-core architectures and other novel architectures.