Department of Computer Science

Leandra Vicci

Lecturer and Director of the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory


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Contact Information 

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 

(919) 962-1742 (Voice)
(919) 962-1798 (Fax)
vicci@cs.unc.edu (email) 

Leandra Vicci

Link to CV with recent publications

Research Interests

  • Scientific instrument and experiment design
  • Hardware system engineering and integration
  • Peripherals of information processing: beyond the I/O port
  • Mathematical models of physical phenomena

The Microelectronic Systems Laboratory (MSL)

Useful system design methodologies and technologies must be guided by their application to building actual systems. The MSL is a testbed to explore ideas in these realms, while also providing hardware system prototyping resources for departmental researchers and collaborators.

Current MSL projects:

  • 3D Force Microscope --3D nano-scale telepresence project
  • Nanorods – Fluid-mechanical models and experiments of cilia-fluid interaction
  • Asynchronous counterflow architectures – low power, high speed computing
  • Assistive technologies – disadvantaged-friendly computing interfaces

Some previous interesting  MSL projects:

  • Tracker --real-time tracking technologies for VR displays
  • Nanomanipulator --atomic-scale teleoperation project
  • GRIDS --Geospatial Registration of Information for Dismounted Soldiers
  • FastLinks --Pushing many gigabits/second across wires between ICs
  • Pixel Planes – Massively parallel graphics supercomputers
  • VISTAnet – Distributed computation over a 0.622 Gbit/sec network
  • BioSCAN – A genome and protein string matching supercomputer
  • Office of the Future – Long-distance collaboration using a virtual shared office space
  • 3D laparoscopic visualization – Surgeon’s-eye-view of laparoscopic close-up data
  • DeltaSphere – A full color panoramic 3D camera, now commercial, hot CSI technology

Collaborating Researchers

Honors

  • Best Paper Award, Architectures and Algorithms track, International Conference on Computer Design, Oct. 1991.
  • UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor's Award for innovation in research, Chapel Hill, 1996.
  • North Carolina Governor's Award for innovation, Chapel Hill, 1996.
  • Best Paper Award, Symposium on virtual Reality, Software and Technology, Dec. 1999.

Service

  • Member, Curriculum in Applied Sciences Advisory Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1992-98
  • Member, University Patent Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1989- present
  • Member, College of Arts and Sciences Conflict of Interest Oversight Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1999-present
  • Chair, MCNC Project Review Committee, 1987-92
  • Member, MCNC Chairmen Technical Council 1987-92, Chair, 1988-89
  • Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Design, 1984-92
  • Member, MCNC Center Semiconductor Technical Council (CSTC), 1984-92
  •     Chair, MCNC CSTC Electronic Packaging Subcommittee, 1985
  • Member, MCNC Technical Users' Group on Testing, 1982-85
  • Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Communications (TWGC), 1981-85
  •     Chair, MCNC TWGC, Transmission Subcommittee, 1981-83
  • Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Research and Fabrication, 1981-83
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1993
  • Panelist, NSF Experiments in Distributed Design and Rapid Prototyping using Agile Networking, 1996
Last updated 25 April 2005

 

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