Profile

Darshika G. Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), USA. Prior to joining UCCS, Darshika worked as the Senior Engineer and Group Leader of Embedded Systems at CMC Microsystems, Canada. Her research interests are reconfigurable computing, mobile and embedded systems, data mining, and digital systems. Darshika received the “Teacher of the Year – Tenure Track Award” from the Engineering and Applied Science Collage, UCCS, in April 2019. She also received a best paper award at the IEEE 3PGCIC’11 conference in 2011, and a best poster paper award at the ACM HEART’18 symposium in 2018. She serves on organizing and program committees for several IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops, and as a reviewer for several IEEE, Springer, and Elsevier journals. Darshika is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE CAS, and the IEEE Women in Engineering. Currently, she serves on the VLSI Systems and Applications Technical Committee (VSATC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and also serves as an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Microelectronics Journal (MEJ).