Kevin Camera
Advisor:	Prof. Bob Brodersen
Position:	Graduate Student Researcher
Degree:	Ph.D. EE, U. C. Berkeley, Expected Fall 2007
Previous Degrees:	M.S. EE, U. C. Berkeley, Spring 2001 (Thesis: PDF) B.S. EECS with High Honors, U. C. Berkeley, Fall 1998
Research Overview:	Highly energy efficient, massively parallel, programmable architectures for wireless communications and general purpose computing, with an emphasis on the optimal design environment (language features, compiler extensions, and hardware libraries) for programming directly on field-programmable logic
Publications:	K. Camera, H. K.-H. So, R. W. Brodersen. An Integrated Debugging Environment for Reprogrammable Hardware Systems. Sixth International Symposium on Automated and Analysis-Driven Debugging. September 2005. W. R. Davis, et. al. A Design Environment for High-Throughput Low-Power Dedicated Signal Processing Systems. IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. March 2002. W. R. Davis, et. al. A Design Environment for High-Throughput Low-Power Dedicated Signal Processing Systems. Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. May 2001. W. R. Davis, et. al. An Automated Design Flow for Low-Power, High-Throughput Dedicated Signal Processing Systems. Proc. of the Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers. November 2001.
Resume:	HTML
Email:	kcamera AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu
Fax Number:	(510) 883-0270
Work Address:	Berkeley Wireless Research Center 2108 Allston Way, Suite 200 Berkeley, CA 94704

Current Research

• "Efficient programming of reconfigurable hardware through direct verification" (online documentation under development)

Past (or Paused) Research

• Investigating applications of artificial neural networks to wireless communications and general-purpose mobile computing
• A Stateflow to VHDL translator for automatically synthesizing Stateflow state machines onto ASIC or FPGA targets (see also my M.S. thesis)
• Cooperative research with Haas School of Business on tradeoffs between software and hardware based implementations of embedded communication devices

Graduate Coursework

• Mechanical Engineering 290P / Business Administration 290N: New Product Development
  • Course project: Berkeley Wireless Research as a Breakthrough R&D Lab
• Electrical Engineering 241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
  • Course project: Control Interconnect Power in Programmable Datapaths
• Computer Science 267: Applications of Parallel Computers
  • Online coursework (several optimization assignments and a course project)
• Mechanical Engineering 221 / Business Administration 290M.1: High Tech Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping
• Electrical Engineering 225C: VLSI Signal Processing
  • Course project: Polyphase Filter Bank Architectures for a Space Radar Transceiver
• Electrical Engineering 249: Embedded System Design
  • Online coursework (including presentations and project information)
• Computer Science 252: Graduate Computer Architecture
  • Course project: Instruction Set and Architectural Optimizations for Wireless Communication Protocols
• Computer Science 268: Distributed Computing Systems
  • Course Project: Design Considerations for Embedded Sensor/Control Networks in Temperature-controlled Environments
• Computer Science 294-8: Deeply Networked Systems Seminar
  • Course research project, presentations, etc.

Random Stuff

• I created a page about a display bug in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac which has been around for two major versions (v.X and 2004) and about 8 minor updates. Basically, they didn't write the text rendering code properly and all the text in the outline and notes panes is clipped off on the right if the pane isn't sized large enough. I could probably fix the bug myself if I had the source code... Naturally Microsoft doesn't want to listen to one person, so I placed a little faith in the internet that maybe enough people would stumble across this page and start making some noise about it.
• Chances are that you arrived here either through the BWRC online directory, or by a web search. If you're one of those people who already know me, you may also want to check out my personal website hosted at http://www.kcamera.net instead.