About Me
Umit Ogras is an esteemed electrical and computer engineering professor who combines academic excellence with entrepreneurial spirit. He holds the associate professor position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ogras embarked on his professional journey after earning a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. His early career saw him at Intel as a research scientist from 2008 to 2013, contributing significantly to the development of Intel Xeon Server processors, mainly the Skylake server, and focusing on energy-efficient systems-on-chip (SoC). His academic career took flight at Arizona State University, where he served as a faculty member from 2013 to 2020. He later joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison and simultaneously ventured into entrepreneurship, founding xPLORE Solutions and becoming a founding member of DASH Tech Integrated Circuits, Inc.
Ogras’ research is diverse and impactful, spanning heterogeneous multicore architectures, wearable computing, low-power VLSI, flexible hybrid electronics, domain-specific systems, edge AI, mobile and wearable computing, multicore architectures, and semiconductor engineering. His work has been recognized as pioneering, including a paper co-authored with his Ph.D. advisor, Radu Marculescu, cited as a classic in computer hardware design by Google Scholar. As the leader of the eLab Research group, Ogras is dedicated to educating and mentoring students at various levels, from graduate to high school.
His contributions to the field have earned him several prestigious awards, including the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, Young Faculty Awards, the NSF CAREER Award, Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award, and multiple best-paper accolades from renowned journals and conferences.
Beyond his professional pursuits, Ogras has a deep passion for soccer, reading, movies, and tennis. These hobbies are not just leisure activities but sources of relaxation, happiness, and rejuvenation for him. His interest in tennis began with a simple class, while his love for soccer, reading, and movies has roots in his childhood.
