Sumit Ghosh is the associate chair for research and graduate programs in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Arizona State University. Previously, he had been on the faculty at Brown University and has held research positions in private industry. Dr. Ghosh's research has pioneered work in areas such as preemptive semantics for inertial delays in hardware description languages; execution of VHDL models on distributed processors; behavior-level fault modeling; asynchronous distributed fault simulation; timing verification of asynchronous digital designs; deadlock-free distributed