Shankar Balachandran (S'98) received the B.E. degree in computer science and engineering from University of Madras, Madras, India in 1998. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Ph.D. student with the Design Automation Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. His current research interests include physical design for FPGAs, with emphasis on a priori wirelength, congestion and timing estimation.