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Sarah Harris

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Nevada

About me

Sarah L. Harris is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed her M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford University. Before joining UNLV in 2014, she was a faculty member at Harvey Mudd College for ten years. She has also worked at Hewlett Packard, Nvidia, and the Technical University of Darmstadt and has collaborated with other companies including Southwest Research Institute, Intel, and Imagination Technologies. She is the co-author of three popular textbooks, her most recent being Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition (2021, Morgan Kaufmann). She is currently the principal or co-principal investigator on three NSF grants. Her research interests include computer architecture and applications of embedded systems and machine learning to biomedical engineering and robotics.

Courses and Programs taught by Sarah Harris