Jason D. Bakos, PhD. Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Dr. Bakos is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests involve computer architecture at the circuit level, micro-architectural level, and system level. This includes VLSI design, design automation, system-level interconnects, reconfigurable computing, and high-performance computing. He received his PhD. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh.