R. Iris Bahar is Department Head of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines.
Previously, she was professor at the School of Engineering at Brown University.
Her interests include computer architecture; computer-aided design for synthesis, verification and low-power applications; and design, test, and reliability issues for nanoscale systems.
After that she joined the Ph.D. program in and earned the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado (1995),[1] with the dissertation "Methods for Timing Analysis and Logic Synthesis to Decrease Power Dissipation".
[1] In 2022, she joined Colorado School of Mines as the Department Head of Computer Science.