Professional Service

• ACM SIGGRAPH Conference. Member, Conference Advisory Group (Steering Committee). 02/01/2022 - present
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Conference Chair for the 50th anniversary SIGGRAPH conference in 2023. 02/18/2021 - 11/30/2023
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Member of the General Submissions jury. 01/01/2021 - 05/31/2021
• ACM SIGGRAPH conference. Member of the Art Papers Jury. 12/02/2019 - 02/28/2020
• ACM SIGGRAPH conference. Member of the General Submissions Jury. 12/02/2019 - 02/28/2020
• ACM SIGGRAPH conference. Member of the Art Gallery Jury. 12/02/2019 - 02/28/2020
• ACM SIGGRAPH conference. Studio/Labs Co-Chair for the 2020 conference organizing committee. 09/02/2019 - 07/31/2020
• IEEE ASYNC Conference. General co-Chair of the 2020 conference. 05/20/2019 - 05/22/2020
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Role: Member. General Jury. 03/01/2019 - 03/29/2019
• IEEE Async Conference. Role: member. Program committee. 12/14/2018 - 02/08/2019
• IEEE Async Conference. Publication Co-Chair. 11/02/2018 - 05/03/2019
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Role: Chair. ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award committee. 10/05/2018 - 10/22/2021
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award selection committee. 09/03/2018 - 09/02/2021
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Education Chair, 2019. This involves coordinating and curating the education content at the 2019 SIGGRAPH conference. 09/03/2018 - 08/16/2019
• ACM SIGGRAPH. General Jury member. 03/01/2018 - 04/30/2018
• National Science Foundation. Member of proposal review panel. 02/06/2018 - 03/08/2018
• University of Washington, Seattle WA. Member of the External Review Committee, reviewing the Digital and Experimental Media Arts (DXARTS) program at the University of Washington. 01/31/2018 - 02/03/2018
• IEEE Async Conference. Member, Program Committee. 11/2017 - 02/2018
• IEEE Async Conference. Publication Chair. 10/2017 - 05/2018
• ACM SIGCSE. Program Committee Member. 08/2017 - 10/2017
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Education Chair for 2018 conference. This involves coordinating and curating the education content at the 2018 SIGGRAPH conference, and shadowing the 2017 chair. 07/2017 - 08/2018
• ACM/Eurographics High Performance Graphics (HPG) Conference. Program committee member. 04/2017 - 05/2017
• ACM SIGGRAPH. General Jury member. 03/2017 - 04/2017
• Async Confrence. Program Committee Member. 11/2016 - 02/2017
• Async Conference. Publication Chair. 10/2016 - 02/2017
• ACM SIGGRAPH. General Jury member. 03/2016 - present
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Education Chair for 2017 conference. This involves curating education-related content at the 2017 conference, and shadowing the 2016 Education Liaison at the 2016 conference. 02/2016 - 08/2017
• Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. Program Committee member. 11/2015 - 02/2016
• Async conference. Program Committee member. 11/2015 - 02/2016
• Async Conference. Publication Chair. 10/2015 - 02/2016
• Eurographics conference. Program Committee member. 08/2015 - 09/2015
• ACM SIGGRAPH. General Jury member. 04/2015 - 06/2015
• High Performance Graphics conference. Program committee member. 04/2015 - 05/2015
• IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. Program Committee. 02/2015 - 04/2015
• ACM SIGGRAPH. Technical papers reviewer. 02/2015 - 03/2015
• IEEE Transactions on VLSI. Reviwer. 01/2015 - 12/2015
• National Science Foundation. Review panel member on two panels in Washington D.C. - one in Spring, and one in Fall semester in 2015. 01/2015 - 12/2015
• IEEE Transactions on CAD. Reviewer. 01/2015 - 12/2015
• IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. Publication Chair for Async 2015. 09/2014 - 04/2015
• SIGGRAPH. General Jury program committee. 11/2013 - 08/2014
• IEEE Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, 2013. Role: Publication chair. Organizing committee. 10/2012 - 05/2013
• IEEE Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, 2013. Role: member. Technical program committee. 09/2012 - 05/2013
• Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). Role: member. Technical program committee. 09/2012 - 05/2013
• Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). Role: member. Steering Committee . 08/2012 - present
• Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). Role: general co-chair of conference. General co-chair of 2012 conference, held in Salt Lake City in May 2012. 05/2012 - 06/2012
• High Performance Graphics conference. Role: member. Technical program committee. 02/2012 - 06/2012
• IEEE Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. Role: member. Steering committee. 01/2012 - present
• IEEE Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. Role: publication chair. publication chair for 2012 conference. 10/2011 - 05/2012
• IEEE Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems. General Chair of Async 2011 in Ithaca, New York. 05/2011 - 06/2011
• High Performance Graphics conference. Role: member. Technical program committee. 02/2011 - 05/2011
• Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). Technical Program co-Chair. 01/2010 - 03/2010

Honors & Awards

• Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment . National Science Foundation, 06/2022
• John R. Park Teachers Fellowship, awarded by the University Teaching Committee. 02/15/2019
• Was awarded Senior Member status in ACM. 12/10/2018
• Best Paper award at IGSC for my paper “Dark Silicon Considered Harmful: A Case for Truly Green Computing," by E. Brunvand, D. Kline, A. Jones. 10/12/2018
• Was awarded Senior Member status in the IEEE. 10/01/2018
• Best Paper award for my paper Making Noise: Using Sound-Art to Explore Technological Fluency (co-author Nina McCurdy). ACM SIGCSE confrence, 03/2017
• I was awarded one of two University Professorships for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years. According Undergraduate Studies: "This professorship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary skills in teaching, distinguished scholarship in their field, and an interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education." . College of Undergraduate Studies, 07/2016
• I was awarded one of two University Professorships for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years. According Undergraduate Studies: "This professorship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary skills in teaching, distinguished scholarship in their field, and an interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education." . College of Undergraduate Studies, 07/2015
• I was awarded one of two University Professorships for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years. According Undergraduate Studies: "This professorship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary skills in teaching, distinguished scholarship in their field, and an interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education." . Undergraduate Studies, University of Utah, 08/2014
• Best Paper Award for “TRaX: A multi-threaded architecture for real-time ray tracing,” by J. Spjut, D. Kopta, S. Boulos, S. Kellis, and E. Brunvand. Symposium on Application Specific Processors, 2008
• External PhD reviewer for Sven Woop . University of Saarland, Saarbrueken, Germany, 2007

Internal Service

• RPT Committee. Chair, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
• Director of Computer Science Graduate Track program. 08/16/2021 - 08/22/2022. Department service.
• Faculty Recruiting Committee. Member, 08/16/2021 - 07/01/2022. Department service.
• Career-Line Faculty Search Committee. Chair, 11/02/2018 - 04/30/2019. Department service.
• Computer Engineering Committee. Member, 06/29/2018 - present. Department service.
• HCI Faculty Search Subcommittee. Member, 11/2017 - 05/2018. Department service.
• Lecturing Faculty search subcommittee. member, 11/2017 - 05/2018. Department service.
• University Teaching Committee. Chair, 07/2015 - 06/28/2019. University service.
• Computer Engineering Committee. Chair, 07/2015 - 06/2018. College service.
• College Council. Member, 07/2015 - 06/2018. College service.
• Ad hoc "On Ramp" committee. Chair, 07/2015 - 06/2016. Department service.
• Member of the Graduate School review committee for the Department of Film andMedia Studies. Member of the review committee, 02/2014 - 06/2014. University service.
• Advisory Board for the Multi-Disciplinary Design Major program. Advisory board member, 03/2012 - 06/2017. University service.
• Faculty Club Board. Treaurer, 01/2012 - 12/2012. University service.
• Creative Campus steering committee. member, 12/2011 - 07/2015. University service.
• Digital Media graduate degree. Track Chair, 08/2011 - 07/2015. Department service.
• Computer Engineering Committee. Member, 07/2011 - 06/2015. College service.
• Curriculum Committee. 01/2011 - present. Department service.
• Curriculum Committee. 01/2011 - 12/2013. College service.
• Computer Engineering computing degree program. Track chair, 01/2007 - present. Department service.

Outreach

• Presented a UofU School of Computing booth at the SLC Maker Faire at the fairpark. 04/15/2017 - present

In the Media

• KSL news story about my class, Making Noise: Sound Art and Digital Media. 05/25/2016. http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39904916&nid=148
• TEDx Salt Lake City - I gave a TEDx talk at Kingsbury Hall on the subject of Technological Fluency through Circuit Bending. The talk is available on youTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyz1UiLLsDk . 09/19/2015.
• My interactive exhibit of Micro-Art (art on the surface of an integrated circuit) was featured on the main floor of the Leonardo during the Utah Arts Festival. 06/24/2015.
• My exhibit at The Leonardo (with Al Denyer) was featured on the web site of The Leonardo. 10/2011. http://theleonardo.org/exhibits/
• A video related to my Embedded Systems and Kinetic Art class was featured on the utah.edu and coe.utah.edu web sites. It can be seen at http://vimeo.com/19603941. 02/2011.