Education

• PhD: Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2001

• MS: Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, 1998

• BS:  Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University,  Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, 1994

Research Interests

• Dynamic power, thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-on-chip

• Power and performance optimization of energy harvesting real-time embedded systems

• High Performance Reconfigurable Computing for Bioinformatics and Cognitive Applications

• High Performance Low Power Signal Processing for Chemical Sensor Arrays

Honors and Awards

• NSF Career Award (2009)

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Research Faculty Fellowship (2007)

Students

• Ying Tan (PhD)
• Parth Malani (PhD)
• Yang Ge (PhD)
• Wei Liu (PhD)
• Yukan Zhang (MS)
• Anand Kumar (MS)
• Anusha Vedire (MS)
• Priyanka Manjarekar (MS)
• Shashwat Sharma (MS)

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Alumni

• Lee Ritholtz (MS’2009, now in Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, NY)
• Prakash Mukre (MS'2008, now in Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, California)
• Tanvi Pundlik (MS’2007, now in MindTree IT Consulting)
• Avnish Brahmbhatt (MS'2006, now in Quacomm, San Diego, California)
• Stanley (Jie) Zheng (MS'2006, now in IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York)
• Palak Patel (MS'2005, now in Netlogic Microsystems, India)
• Xiaoming Li (MS'2005)
• Ming Zhang (MS'2005)

List of Publications

Teaching

• EECE574/EECE455 CMOS VLSI Circuits and Architectures (Syllabus)

• EECE570/EECE438 System-on-chip Design (Syllabus)

• EECE677 Computer Aided Design for High Level Synthesis (Syllabus)

• EECE679 Computer Aided Design for Physical Synthesis (Syllabus)

Department Services

• Member of Watson school publication committee

Professional Services

• Reviewer of

  • IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics
  • International Journal of Electronic

   

• Session Chair of

• “Special Purpose Design Optimization” at IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, 2007
• “Hardware and Software Design for Sensors” at Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM), 2006

 

• Panelist of

• NSF Review Panel (2004, 2009)

 

• Associate Editor of

• ACM/SIGDA E-Newsletter