Lee Coraor

Lee Coraor received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa, July 1978. He was a member of the faculty at The Southern Illinois University-Carbondale from August 1978 to August 1980; at that time, he joined the Penn State electrical engineering faculty. Dr. Coraor has played an active role in both undergraduate and graduate education in the department; in March 1995, he received the College of Engineering PSES Premier Teaching Award. He has served as a Scholars advisor for computer engineering students since 1988.

Dr. Coraor recently completed an investigation into the use of field programmable gate array's for implementing real-time event-driven simulation. He also co-led a team developing the SmartDIMM, a computing in memory architecture, which can be useful in accelerating a variety of computational tasks, as well as serving as a platform for investigating system-on-a-chip designs. He is currently supervising work on a project which examines legacy migration problems involving the redesign of legacy hardware and software.

Research Interests:

Digital Systems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Microprocessor Systems, Computer Architecture

Selected Publications:

1. Gandhi, T., M-T. Yang, R. Kasturi, O. Camps, L. Coraor, J. McCandless. May 2006. Performance Characterization of the Dynamic Programming Obstacle Detection Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 15(5):1202-1214.
   
2. Gandhi, T., M. Yang, R. Kasturi, O. Camps, L. Coraor, J. McCandless. January 2003. Detection of Obstacles in the Flight Path of an Aircraft. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronics 39(1):176-191.
   
3. Bumble, M., L. Coraor. May 2002. An Architecture for a Non-Deterministic Distributed Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology 51(3):453-471.
   
4. Yang, M., T. Gandhi, R. Kasturi, L. Coraor, O. Camps, J. McCandless. February 2002. Real-Time Implementation of Obstacle Detection Algorithms on a Datacube MaxPCI Architecture. Real Time Imaging Journal 8(2):157-172.
   
5. Kurian, L., P. T. Hulina, L. Coraor. October 1994. Memory Latency Effects in Decoupled Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Computers 43(10):1129-1139.