• Brief Bio

  • Research

  • Publications

  • CV

  • Photo Album


    • Graduate Students:
  • Keith Campbell
  • Christine Chen
  • Yun Heo
  • Choden Konigsmark
  • Chong Li (MS)
  • Morteza Gholipour (visiting Ph.D. student)
  • Chen-Hsuan Lin
  • Yi Liang
  • Amit Sangai (MS)
  • Jacob Tolar (MS)
  • Jihe Wang (visiting Ph.D. student)
  • Wei Zuo (visiting Ph.D. student)

    • Undergraduate Researchers:
  • Tielong Su


    • Alumni:
  • Alex Papakonstantinou, Ph.D., 2012 (joined NVidia)
  • Artem Rogachev, MS, 2012 (joined TI).
  • Lu Wan, Ph.D., 2012 (joined Tensilica).
  • Chen Dong, Ph.D., 2010 (joined Magma).
  • Scott Chilstedt, MS, 2010 (joined IBM).
  • Greg Lucas, MS, 2010 (joined Intel).
  • Chi-chen Peng, MS, 2010 (joined Springsoft).
  • Shoaib Akram, MS, 2009 (joined Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece).
  • Scott Cromar, MS, 2009 (joined Law School, UIUC).
  • Lei Cheng, Ph.D., 2007 (co-advised with Prof. Martin Wong; joined Synplicity).


    • Editorship:
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2013 - present
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2012 - present
  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2009 - present
  • Associate editor, Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), 2009 - present
  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2009 - 2012
  • Associate editor, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), 2009 - 2012
  • Associate editor, ACM SIGDA Electronic Newsletter, 2008 - 2010


    • Honors and Awards:
  • Achievement Award for Excellent Teamwork, Aplus Design Technologies, Inc, 2001
  • Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC, 2007
  • Strathmore's Who's Who, 2007-2008
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2008
  • On the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students, Spring 2008
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2009
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors, 2009
  • ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, 2010
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2011
  • Best Paper Award, Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing, 2011
  • Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, 2011


    • Courses:
    Spring 2006/2007/2009, ECE 425: Introduction to VLSI System Design
    Fall 2006/2007, ECE 598BL: Design and Synthesis of System-on-a-chip
    Spring 2008-2010, ECE 412: Microcomputer Laboratory
    Fall 2008-2011, ECE 527: System-on-Chip Design
    Fall 2011, ECE 411: Computer Organization and Design
    Spring 2012/2013, ECE 385: Digital Systems Laboratory

    Article about the Best Paper Award on FCCM'11
    Article about the Best Paper Award on SASP'09
    Article about Deming on nanotechnology research
    Article on the ASPDAC'09 Best Paper Award
    Article on Deming's CAREER Award
    Article about OpenSPARC Center of Excellence



    Last updated: 2/17/2013.