His research areas are high performance computer simulation, computer architecture, parallel computing, Internet router architecture and network processors. Before UT, Dr. Chiou was a system architect for five years at Avici Systems, a manufacturer of terabit core routers. Dr. Chiou received his Ph.D., S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is currently a research affiliate of the MIT Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a PI in the RAMP collaborative. His research is supported by a DOE Early Career Principal Investigator award, an NSF CAREER award, NSF and SRC awards as well as donations from Intel, IBM, Xilinx, Freescale, Altera, and VMWare.