Saumil Merchant, PhD. Post-doctoral Research Scientist NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing 317 Larsen Hall, PO Box 116200 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Phone: (352) 392-5907 Email: merchant -*- @ -*- chrec –.–org (remove the extra dashes and stars from above address)

Education PhD in Electrical Engineering (Aug 2007) University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dissertation: Intrinsically evolvable artificial neural networks MS in Computer Engineering (Aug 2003) University of Tennessee, Knoxville Thesis: Approaches for MATLAB Applications Acceleration Using High Performance Reconfigurable Computers. Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics (May 1999) University of Mumbai, India

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