Erdal Oruklu (IEEE Senior Member) received his B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, in 2005. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005, where he is Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of the VLSI and SoC Design Research Laboratory. Dr. Oruklu's research interests include reconfigurable computing, advanced computer architectures, hardware/software co-design, embedded systems, and high-speed computer arithmetic. In particular, he focuses on research and development of system-on-chip (SoC) frameworks for FPGA and VLSI implementations of real-time ultrasound detection, estimation, and imaging applications. He has more than 150 conference and journal publications. Dr. Oruklu is a member of the Technical Program Committee and Group Vice Chair (Sensors, NDE and Industrial Applications Group) for the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Dr. Oruklu is also an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.