Austin Rovinski

Austin Rovinski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University. His research interests include computer architecture, very large-scale integration (VLSI), and electronic design automation (EDA). He is passionate about chip design and has led the development of novel chip prototypes and contributed to agile hardware design methodologies. Rovinski is a founding member of the OpenROAD project, where he served as a design advisor and led the development of the OpenROAD RTL-to-GDS flow. Prior to joining NYU in Fall 2023, he spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D., master's, and bachelor's degrees all from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Austin Rovinski is a researcher at New York University with expertise in Computer Architecture, VLSI, and EDA. His work focuses on developing open-source tools and architectures for high-performance computing, including the design of manycore processors and accelerator fabrics. He has contributed to projects such as Celerity, an open-source RISC-V tiered accelerator fabric, and Sirius, an end-to-end personal assistant system with implications for warehouse-scale computers. His research also explores the integration of large language models into EDA workflows, such as Openroad-assistant, and the optimization of sparse matrix operations for energy efficiency. Rovinski's work emphasizes the intersection of hardware design and software innovation to advance scalable computing systems.