Kurt has researched a wide number of areas related to computer-aided design of integrated circuits and his research efforts have led to three Design Automation Conference (DAC) Best Paper Awards, a Distinguished Paper Citation from the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) and a Best Paper Award at the International Conference in Computer Design (ICCD). He co-authored a book entitled Logic Synthesis, published by McGraw-Hill in 1994 and a book entitled Closing the Gap Between ASIC and Custom recently released from Kluwer Academic Publishers.

From 1989-1995 Kurt served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems and he currently serves on the editorial boards of three journals: Integration - the VLSI Journal; Design Automation of Embedded Systems and Formal Methods in System Design. Kurt has served on the technical program committees of DAC, ICCAD and ICCD as well as the technical and executive committees of numerous other conferences and workshops. Kurt is a Fellow of the IEEE.