Steven M. Nowick is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and Chair of the Computer Engineering Program. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1993, and a B.A. from Yale University. His main research area is on design methodologies and CAD tools for synthesis and optimization of asynchronous and mixed-timing (i.e. handling multiple clock domains) digital systems. His current projects include: scalable networks-on-chip (NoC's) for shared-memory parallel processors and embedded systems, ultra-low energy digital systems, and low-power and robust global communication.

Dr. Nowick is an IEEE Fellow (2009). He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1995), an NSF CAREER Award (1995), and an NSF Research Initiation Award (RIA) (1993). He received Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (1991) and the IEEE Async Symposium (2000). He co-founded the IEEE "Async" Symposia series, and served as Program Committee Co-Chair (1994, 1999) and General Co-Chair (2005). He was also Program Chair of the IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (2002). He was also Program Subcommittee Chair of DAC (2011-2012, logic/high-level synthesis/FPGA's) and DATE (2009-2010, logic/technology-dependent synthesis), and was Program Track Chair of ICCD (2005, tools and methodologies). He has been a member of many leading program committees, including: DAC, ICCAD, DATE, NOCS, Async, VLSI Design, ICCD and IWLS. He is currently associate editor of ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computer Systems (2010-), and was formerly associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (2003-2011) and IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (2001-2007).

He has been funded by medium-scale NSF awards for continuous-time DSP's (2010) and low-latency asynchronous interconnection networks (2008), and received 2 medium-scale NSF ITR awards in 2000 for asynchronous research. He was brought onto the DARPA "CLASS" project (2005), headed by Boeing, to create a new commercially-viable CAD tool flow for designing asynchronous systems.

Dr. Nowick was committee chair of the ACM/SIGDA "Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Electronic Design Automation" award (2012), and was a member of the ACM/IEEE DAC Best Paper Award committee (2010). He is also a recipient of the Columbia Engineering School "Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award" (2011). He holds 10 issued US patents.