Gabriel Robins

Dr. Gabriel Robins
Professor of Computer Science

Gabriel Robins is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Virginia, where he received an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, a University Teaching Fellowship, an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award, a Faculty Mentor Award, a two-year early promotion/tenure, the Walter N. Munster Endowed Chair, and the Virginia Engineering Foundation Faculty Appreciation Award. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 at UCLA, where he received an IBM Fellowship and a Distinguished Teaching Award. Gabe's research areas include radio-frequency identification (RFID), computer-aided design of VLSI chips, algorithms, bioinformatics / genomics, computational geometry, and combinatorial optimization. He published a book on high-performance routing and over 100 peer-reviewed papers that are highly cited.

Gabriel Robins consults as an Expert Witness in patent litigations, infringement analyses, and other intellectual property court cases in all areas of computer science. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, and is currently on the Editorial Board of Research Letters in Electronics. He was a member of the Army Science Board, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Army on science, technology, and research, and is an alumni of the Defense Science Study Group, an advisory panel to the U.S. Department of Defense. He also served on the Navy Future Study panel of the National Academy of Sciences. Gabe was General Chair of the ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop (1996), and co-founded the International Symposium on Physical Design (1997). He served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE International ASIC / SOCC Conference, the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, and the Canadian Workshop on Field-Programmable Devices, and the Editorial Board of the IEEE Book Series. He is a member of ACM, SIGDA, SIGACT, and IEEE.

Vitae / resume	Research summary	Grants	Students	Presentations
Videos	Publications	Honors and awards	News stories	Code distributions

Gabe doing some early research	With supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray	Working out with Andrew Kahng (Gabe's Ph.D. advisor at UCLA)
Rollerskating at Venice Beach, CA	Visiting with (former) U.S. Secretary of Defense Bill Perry	Hanging out with U.S. Marines (during a DSSG field trip)