Srinivas Katkoori received his doctoral degree in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1998. At UC, his dissertation received a certificate of recognition (Honorable Mention for outstanding doctoral dissertation). He joined the CSE department of University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor in the Fall semester of 1997. Prof. Katkoori is a member of VCAPP (VLSI, Computer Architecture, & Parallel Processing) research group.  His research interests are in the general area of VLSI CAD Algorithms and Design Methodologies. Specific research areas include:  High level synthesis, Low power synthesis, FPGA Synthesis, VLSI CAD for DSM regime, Radiation Tolerant CAD for FPGAs, and Reconfigurable Computing.

Dr. Katkoori is a recipient of 2001 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (Design Automation program) for a five-year duration on the topic "Interconnect-centric High Level Synthesis in DSM regime." During the sabbatical leave (August 2005-December 2005), he worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL), Pasadena, CA.  Besides NSF, his research was funded by Honeywell Inc., Clearwater (under their Academic Research Initiative program) and by the I4 High Tech Corridor Initiative Program. Currently, Dr. Katkoori's research group consists of 5 PhD students.  To date, he has advised 4 PhD students and 16 MS students and authored 50 technical publications which appeared in peer-reviewed international journals (ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, and IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, Journal on VLSI Signal Processing, IEEE Design & Test of Computers) and peer-reviewed VLSI conferences (such as Intl. Conference on Computer Design, Intl. Conference on VLSI Design, Design Automation and Test in Europe, International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, Asia-Pacific Design Automation Conference, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems).  He is the recipient of the inaugural 2002-03 University of South Florida Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award.  He holds one US patent (No. 6,963,217) on theMethod and apparatus for creating circuit redundancy in programmable logic devices. Dr. Katkoori teaches the following courses on a regular-basis: CMOS VLSI Design (graduate/undergraduate), Low Power CMOS VLSI Design & CAD (graduate), Digital Circuit Synthesis (graduate/undergraduate).  He is the recipient of 2005 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the IEEE Florida Council (Region 3).

Dr. Katkoori is a member of ACM (SIGDA) and a senior member of IEEE. He served as the publicity and registration chair (2000) and as the general co-chair and registration chair (2001) for the Annual Workshop on VLSI held in Orlando, Florida.   He serves on technical committees of several VLSI and related conferences (such as ICCD, ISQED, SOC, MAPLD, RAW, VLSI, FPL).  He is serving as a peer reviewer for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of ICs and Systems, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and IEE Proceedings on Computers & Digital Techniques.  Since November of 2006 Dr. Katkoori is serving as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems. Dr. Katkoori served as the faculty advisor of the student chapter of IEEE Computer Society at USF from 1999-2005.  In 2004, the chapter was recognized as an Outstanding IEEECS Student Chapter across the world. In 2005, he received the IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award.

Dr. Katkoori gave invited talks on VLSI design automation at: Drexel University, Arizona State University, University of Tennessee, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, Honeywell Space Systems, Clearwater, FL, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India,  Navigational Electronics Research & Training Unit (NERTU),  Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, National Institute of Technology (NIT, formerly REC), Warangal, India. AFRL Workshop on Radiation Hardening by Design, Albuquerque, NM, University of Southern California, Jet Propulsion Labs, IBM (Seminar on Selective Triple Modular Redundancy) Center for Ocean Technology, College of Marine Science, USF, University of North Texas, Denton.