Miriam Leeser is a Professor of Computer Engineering at Northeastern University and head of the Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory. Her main research focus is in hardware accelerators, especially FPGAs.  She has conducted research in floating point implementations, unsupervised learning, medical imaging, and privacy preserving data processing. Throughout her career, she has been funded by both government agencies and companies, including AMD, DARPA, NSF, Google, and MathWorks. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award and a Charter Member of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program.   Her current research focus is on FPGAs for wireless communications as well as FPGAs in the data center.