Dr. Mike Wirthlin is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU in Provo, Utah and the BYU site director of the National Science Foundation Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). Dr. Wirthlin received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1992 and 1997 respectively. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a Staff Research Engineer in the Systems Architecture Laboratory at National Semiconductor Corporation in Santa Clara, CA. He has been actively involved in FPGA design and research for over 20 years. His research interests include reliable FPGA design, fault-tolerant computing, and Configurable Computing Systems. He is the author of a variety of technical papers in these research areas. He has led the development of a number of tools and techniques for improving the reliability of FPGA designs. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.