Research Interests

Self-assembling Computer Architecture, Nanoscale System Design & Simulation, Circuit
Design and Visualization, Self-assembling Device Fabrication, DNA-guided Self-assembly.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2003.
Dissertation: “Self-assembled Computer Architecture: Design and Fabrication Theory,”
Advised by Russell Taylor (adviser), Dorothy Erie, John Poulton, Richard Superfine,
Leandra Vicci, and Sean Washburn.
M.S., Computer Science. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2000.
B.S., Computer Engineering. Penn. State University, University Park, PA, 1998.

Positions

Assistant Professor, Duke University (7/04 – present)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University (8/03 – 7/04)
Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (5/03 – 7/03)
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (8/98 – 5/03)

Publications

C. Dwyer, L. Vicci, J. Poulton, D. Erie, R. Superfine, S. Washburn, R. M. Taylor, “The Design
of DNA Self-Assembled Computing Circuitry”, IEEE Trans. on VLSI, vol. 12, 2004.
C. Dwyer, V. Johri, M. Cheung, J. Patwardhan, A. Lebeck, D. Sorin, “Design Tools for a
DNA-guided Self-assembling Carbon Nanotube Technology”, Nanotechnology, vol. 15,
1240-5, 2004.
M. Cheung, C. Dwyer, D. Sorin, “Semi-empirical SPICE Models for Carbon Nanotube FET
Logic”, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, 2004.
J. Patwardhan, C. Dwyer, A. Lebeck, D. Sorin, “Circuit and System Architecture for DNAGuided
Self-Assembly of Nanoelectronics”, Proceedings of the 1st Conference on the
Foundations of Nanoscience, April, 2004.