Lesley Shannon

Lesley Shannon
Lesley Shannon
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of New Brunswick (BS) University of Toronto (MASc, PhD)

Lesley Shannon is a Canadian professor who is Chair for the Computer Engineering Option in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University.^[1] She is also the current NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC and Yukon.^[2] Shannon's chair operates the Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WWEST) program to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM.^[3]^[4]

Education

Shannon received her B.Sc., Electrical Engineering with the Computer Option from the University of New Brunswick in 1999 (Canada). She then completed her Masters of Applied Sciences and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2001 and 2006, respectively.^[2]

Career

Shannon's primary area of interest is Computing System Design, including architectures, design methodologies, and programming models. Her PhD research focused on developing tools, architectures and methodologies that help reduce the design time of embedded systems, particularly those implemented using FPGAs.^[5]

Since her arrival at SFU, she expanded her research to include computing architectures for silicon and non-silicon based technologies (including FPGAs, heterogeneous computing, Networks-on-Chip (NoCs), and Multi-Processors Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs)).^[5]

Awards and publications

Shannon was awarded the 2014 APEGBC Teaching Award of Excellence in recognition of her classroom and out-of-class mentoring activities and her contributions in leading a redesign of the School's undergraduate curriculum at SFU.^[6]^[7]

Her publications include "Odin II - An Open-Source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for CAD Research",^[8] "FUSE: Front-End User Framework for O/S Abstraction of Hardware Accelerators",^[9] and "Using reconfigurability to achieve real-time profiling for hardware/software codesign".^[10] Additionally, she has published articles such as "TAIGA: A new RISC-V soft-processor framework enabling high performance CPU architectural features",^[11] and "Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units".^[12]

External links

Lesley Shannon publications indexed by Google Scholar

References

^ "Dr. Lesley Shannon (2005)". www.obrienfoundation.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
^ a b "Lesley Shannon - School of Engineering Science - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
^ "Vision & Strategies - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
^ "About - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
^ a b "Lesley Shannon | Home". www2.ensc.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
^ "Chairholder - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
^ "SFU engineering professor recognized for teaching excellence - School of Engineering Science - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
^ Jamieson, Peter; Kent, Kenneth B.; Gharibian, Farnaz; Shannon, Lesley (May 2010). "Odin II - an Open-Source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for CAD Research". 2010 18th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. pp. 149–156. doi:10.1109/FCCM.2010.31. ISBN 978-1-4244-7142-3. S2CID 9780102.
^ Ismail, Aws; Shannon, Lesley (May 2011). "FUSE: Front-End User Framework for O/S Abstraction of Hardware Accelerators". 2011 IEEE 19th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. pp. 170–177. doi:10.1109/FCCM.2011.48. ISBN 978-1-61284-277-6. S2CID 11553108.
^ Shannon, Lesley; Chow, Paul (2004-02-22). "Using reconfigurability to achieve real-time profiling for hardware/Software codesign". Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/SIGDA 12th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays. FPGA '04. Monterey, California, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 190–199. doi:10.1145/968280.968308. ISBN 978-1-58113-829-0. S2CID 5994809.
^ Matthews, Eric; Shannon, Lesley (September 2017). "TAIGA: A new RISC-V soft-processor framework enabling high performance CPU architectural features". 2017 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). pp. 1–4. doi:10.23919/FPL.2017.8056766. ISBN 978-9-0903-0428-1. S2CID 5866068.
^ Li, Jian; Bloch, Pavel; Xu, Jing; Sarunic, Marinko V.; Shannon, Lesley (2011-05-01). "Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units". Applied Optics. 50 (13): 1832–1838. Bibcode:2011ApOpt..50.1832L. doi:10.1364/AO.50.001832. ISSN 2155-3165. PMID 21532660.

[1] "Dr. Lesley Shannon (2005)". www.obrienfoundation.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[:0-2] "Lesley Shannon - School of Engineering Science - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[3] "Vision & Strategies - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-20.

[4] "About - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-20.

[:1-5] "Lesley Shannon | Home". www2.ensc.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[6] "Chairholder - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[7] "SFU engineering professor recognized for teaching excellence - School of Engineering Science - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

[8] Jamieson, Peter; Kent, Kenneth B.; Gharibian, Farnaz; Shannon, Lesley (May 2010). "Odin II - an Open-Source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for CAD Research". 2010 18th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. pp. 149–156. doi:10.1109/FCCM.2010.31. ISBN 978-1-4244-7142-3. S2CID 9780102.

[9] Ismail, Aws; Shannon, Lesley (May 2011). "FUSE: Front-End User Framework for O/S Abstraction of Hardware Accelerators". 2011 IEEE 19th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines. pp. 170–177. doi:10.1109/FCCM.2011.48. ISBN 978-1-61284-277-6. S2CID 11553108.

[10] Shannon, Lesley; Chow, Paul (2004-02-22). "Using reconfigurability to achieve real-time profiling for hardware/Software codesign". Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/SIGDA 12th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays. FPGA '04. Monterey, California, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 190–199. doi:10.1145/968280.968308. ISBN 978-1-58113-829-0. S2CID 5994809.

[11] Matthews, Eric; Shannon, Lesley (September 2017). "TAIGA: A new RISC-V soft-processor framework enabling high performance CPU architectural features". 2017 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). pp. 1–4. doi:10.23919/FPL.2017.8056766. ISBN 978-9-0903-0428-1. S2CID 5866068.

[12] Li, Jian; Bloch, Pavel; Xu, Jing; Sarunic, Marinko V.; Shannon, Lesley (2011-05-01). "Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units". Applied Optics. 50 (13): 1832–1838. Bibcode:2011ApOpt..50.1832L. doi:10.1364/AO.50.001832. ISSN 2155-3165. PMID 21532660.