博士生导师，教授。1986年本科毕业于国立台湾大学资讯工程学系；后于1991年和1992年分别获美国普林斯顿大学 (Princeton University) 计算机科学系硕士学位和博士学位。1992年起任教于美国Notre Dame大学计算机科学与工程系，并于1995年起担任该系系副主任。2000年起作为终身职正教授任教于美国德州大学达拉斯分校（UTD）计算机科学系。2001年曾担任计算机科学部主任。自2001年起，担任该校（UTD）“计算机系统”主任教授 (Coordinator)。

发表论文：

在相关国际学术会议及国际核心期刊上发表学术论文200余篇， 其中包括许多IEEE 和 ACM Transactions 论文 (详细目录请见http://www.utdallas.edu/~edsha) 。曾担任很多个国际会议的评审委员会委员（program committee），并负责多个期刊的编审工作（including several IEEE Transactions）。共获各类国家级教学、科研奖项19项，其中包括Oak Ridge Association Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 美国国家科学基金NSF CAREER Award, NSF ITR grant, Notre Dame CSE Teaching Award, 以及 微软Microsoft Trustworthy Curriculum Award 等。主持多次国际重要学术会议 (as a technical program or general chair)，包括Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 1994, Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDCS) 2000 and PDCS 2001, Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems (PDES) 2005, Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) 2006, Embedded Software Optimizations (ESO) 2006。沙行勉教授的研究项目受到美国国家科学基金 NSF (CAREER, ITR, EIA, IIS), 德州仪器 Texas Instruments, AT&T, Texas ARP, Microsoft, USA等多个国家级, 州政府，和工业界基金的支持。

主要研究方向：

嵌入式软件和系统，并行机体系结构，编译器，调度算法，实时系统，操作系统，网络体系结构，计算机和网络安全

获奖情况:
1. Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Timing Optimization for Multi-Dimensional Scientific Applications, Principal Investigator, US $10,000, June 1994 - May 1995.
2. 美国国家科学基金NSF CAREER Award, PI, High-Level Design Methodologies for Time-Optimal and Memory-Optimal Systems, MIPS 95-01006, US$139,000, June 1995 - May 1999.
3. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), Equipment Grant, Principal Investigator, MIPS 95-01006, US$50,000, May 1996 - May 1999.
4. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), Co-PI , Pursuing A Petaflop: Point Designs for 100 TF Computers Using PIM Technologies, NSF ACS 96-12028, US$100,000, April 1996 - May 1997.
5. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), Co-PI, Architecture support and code generation for general nested loops with fine-grain parallelism, MIP-9704276, US$240,000, July 1997 - June 2000.
6. DARPA, Co-PI , A Hybrid Technology MultiThreaded Architecture for Petaflops Computing, JPL Award No. 961097, US$604,200, May 1997 - June 1999.
7. AT&T, PI, Communication Bandwidth Reduce Techniques & IP video Phone, Award No. A-98-11-00002, US$25,000, May 1998 - August 1999.
8. AT&T, PI, Video Chat and Bandwidth Reduction Techniques, US$25,000, September 1999 - May 2001.
9. 德州仪器 (Texas Instruments), PI, Hardware/Software Co-Designs for DSP and Communications, Lab. Equipments, US$49,514, November, 2000.
10. Xilinx, PI, Embedded Systems Designs, Lab. Equipments, US$43,390, January, 2001.
11. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), Co-PI, EIA-0103709, A Distributed Component Repository for Rapid Synthesis of Adaptive Real-Time Systems, US$499,866, September 2001 - August 2004.
12. 德州政府，Advanced Research Program, PI, Algorithms on High-Level Synthesis and Optimization for High-Performance Systems, US$96,000, Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2004.
13. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), PI, CCR-0309461, Design Space Exploration and Synthesis for Multiple-Mode Embedded Systems, US$210,000, Sept. 2003 - Aug. 2007, NSF ITR Award.
14. 微软Microsoft, PI, The Development of Trustworthy Computing Course, US$50,000, Jan. 2005, Unrestricted gift. Microsoft Trustworthy Curriculum Award.
15. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Academic Visiting Scholar Grant, HK$30,000 plus international travel expense, May 2004.
16. Wind River, PI, Embedded Systems Research, Wind River University Program Grant, Platform Software for Network Equipment, and Development tools for VxWorks, US$100,000, September 2004.
17. Altera Corporation, PI, Embedded Systems Design and Optimization, Altera University Program Grant, QUARTUS II development suites, US$26,170, Jan. 2005.
18. UTD, Co-PI, Efficient Analysis of Environment and Public Health Related Data, US$60,000, May 2005 - Aug. 2006.
19. 美国国家科学基金(NSF), Co-PI, Efficient Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Environment and Public Health Related Data, US$397,504, Sept. 2005 - Aug. 2008.

学术活动及奖项:
1. Keynote Speeches:
a. 2005 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2005), Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005.
b. Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC 2005), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2005.
c. The Ninth Workshop on Compiler Techniques for High-Performance Computing, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2003.
2. Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. May 2006.
3. Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Curriculum Development Award, 2005, US$50,000.
4. 客座Professor, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 2005 - Present.
5. 客座 Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 2004 - Present.
6. Program Committee Chair of the 2006 IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2006), Seoul, Korea, August 2006.
7. General Committee Co-Chair of the 2006 International Workshop on Embedded Software Optimization (ESO 2006), Seoul, Korea, August 2006.
8. General Committee Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing (SecUbiq-05) in conjunction with EUC 2005, Nagasaki, Japan, Dec. 2005.
9. General Committee Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems (PDES) in conjunction with ICPADS 2005, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2005.
10. Evaluation Committee, 海外评审专家 （三人之一）, The National Science and Technology Program for Systems-on-Chip (NSTPSoC), Taiwan, 2004. 国家大型矽导计划。
11. Program Committee Chair of the 14th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), Texas, August 2001.
12. Program Committee Co-Chair of the 13th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2000.
13. Editor, Journal of Embedded Computing, 2003 - Present.
14. Editor, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, 2000 - Present.
15. Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, handling submissions related to DSP Programming Systems, 1999 - 2001.
16. Faculty Teaching Award of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1998.
17. Co-Guest editor (with Prof. Anantha Chandrakasanon at MIT) on low power VLSI systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, published in Dec. 1998.
18. Editor, Journal of Circuits, systems and Computers, 1998.
19. 美国国家科学基金NSF CAREER Award, High-Level Design Methodologies for Time-Optimal and Memory-Optimal Systems, 1995.
20. 1994 Junior Faculty Enhancement Award of Oak Ridge Associated University in Mathematics/Computer Science.