Dr. Isaac Keslassy wins one million dollar European Starting Grant
The ERC Starting Grant competition is a new program of the European
Union devoted to groundbreaking research in all fields of knowledge,
from the Humanities and Social Sciences, to the Life Sciences, and to
the Physical and Engineering Sciences. It is the first major program in
which the EU funds research projects assigned to individual researchers
and not to a consortium. In the competition, there were over 9,000
candidates of 88 different nationalities. Out of these, 300 researchers
were awarded a grant, representing 170 host institutions in 21 countries.
Seven Technion researchers received ERC research grants. The Technion
was placed second among European universities (behind Cambridge with nine
researchers), and first in Israel. The researchers will undertake
projects in exciting areas ranging from the development of the latest
tools for medical imaging to research into the causes of marine viruses.
The grant of about 1 million dollars was awarded to Isaac Keslassy for
proposed research that would enable advancing the next generation of
computer chips. Future chips are expected to contain many processing
cores, connected by on-chip networks. Therefore, instead of connecting
multiple computers, these future networks will run inside the computers.
The objective of the proposed research is to model statistically and
design these future on-chip networks, so as to provide a better
quality-of-service for the user. More info on
http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/matrics/