Clay-Wolkin Fellowship

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The Jay Wolkin ’99 and Clay Family Foundation Fellowship, named in memory of the famous and fun-loving Mudder Jay Wolkin, provides students opportunities to pursue basic and applied research initiatives in VLSI Design within the context of the unique engineering program at Harvey Mudd College.

David Harris is an associate professor of engineering at Harvey Mudd College. Professor Harris received his PhD from Stanford University in 1999 and his S.B. and MEng. degrees from MIT in 1994. His research interests include high speed CMOS VLSI design and computer arithmetic. He is the author or coauthor of CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Logical Effort, and Skew-Tolerant Circuit Design. He holds 10 patents, has written numerous papers, and has designed chips for Sun Microsystems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Evans & Sutherland.