He received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Dr. Barua is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2002, and of the UMD George Corcoran Award for teaching excellence in 2003. He was a finalist for the �Inventor of the Year� Award in 2005 given by the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland. Dr. Barua's research interests are in the areas of compilers, automatic parallelization, embedded systems, and binary rewriting.