Margarida F. Jacome (IEEE S'89-M'94-SM 2001) received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees from the Technical University of Lisbon, IST., and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg. PA. She is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on embedded computing, hardware-software codesign and high-level synthesis. Current research interests include application-specific processors and retargetable compilers for embedded computing, low power reconfigurable fabrics, and probabilistic design techniques for emerging nanotechnologies. Dr. Jacome is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and she was a Guest Editor for the 2003 special issue on "Power Aware Embedded Computing" of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. She is Temple Foundation Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She currently serves (or has served) on the Technical Program Committee of several conferences, including the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign (CODES), the IEEE International Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS), the IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), and the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD). Dr. Jacome is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She is a recipient of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award for 1992, and a recipient of the IEEE/CAS William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award for 2000. Her paper "Exploring Performance Tradeoffs for Clustered VLIW ASIPs" was selected for inclusion in "The Best of ICCAD - 20 Years of Excellence in Computer Aided Design".She is a recipient of the Best Paper Award for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) for the period Jan 2002 to Jan 2004. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), and serves as the Nano Initiative Chair of ICCAD.