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Benjamin Carrion Schafer completed his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, U.K. in 2002. He then worked in the Computer Science Department at the University of California los Angeles (UCLA) as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2003 to 2004 and joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University, Korea, as a Visiting Research Scholar from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 until September 2012, he was a researcher at the System IP Core Department, Central R&D Center, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan. From 2012 to 2016, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he established the Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory (DARClab). Since 2016, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Carrion Schafer has been engaged in the research and development of VLSI systems, reconfigurable computing, thermalaware VLSI design and High-Level Synthesis(HLS). He has over 30 publications as the first author in international scientific journals, conferences and books. He served on the TPC of most EDA and FPGA conferences including ASP-DAC, CASES, DATE, DAC, ICCAD and FPL. He was also a member of Accelleras SystemC synthesizable user group committee, leading the effort to standardize a synthesizable subset of SystemC.