He is active in the area of design optimization methods for embedded systems, where he has published extensively and co-authored several book chapters and one book. Paul Pop received the best paper award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2005) and was nominated for the best paper award at the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2001). He is currently involved in the ARTIST2 (Advanced Real-Time SystemsInformation Society Technologies) Network of Excellence on embedded systems design.