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

• Energy efficient and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing

• High performance computing for cognitive applications

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

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

Honors and Awards

• IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award (2020) 

• ACM Service Recognition Award (2019)

• ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award (2011)

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Faculty Researcher Award (2011)

• NSF Career Award (2009)

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

Students

• Amar Shrestha (PhD) 
• Yilan Li (PhD) 
•  Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol (PhD) 
• Haowen Fang (PhD) 
• Mingyang Li (PhD)
• Chen Luo (PhD) 
• Zaidao Mei (PhD)
• Daniel Rider (PhD) 

Alumni

• Ziyi Zhao (PhD, Dec. 2019, Amazon) 
• Ryan Luley (PhD, Dec. 2019, AFRL) 
• Zhe Li (PhD, Dec. 2018, Google Research)  
• Khadeer Ahmed (PhD, July 2017, Synopsys)  
• Qiuwen Chen (PhD, Dec. 2016, now in Microsoft)
• Yukan Zhang (PhD, Dec. 2016)
• Wei Liu (MS'2014)(now in Facebook)
• Hao Shen (PhD, Dec. 2014)(now in Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara, CA)
• Yang Ge (PhD, Dec. 2012) (now in Broadcom, Irvine, CA)
• Fan Yang (now in US Navy)
• Jun Lu (PhD, May 2012) (now in Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA)
• Ying Tan (PhD, May 2012) (now in Macquarie Group, New York, NY)
• Parth Malani (PhD, May 2010) (now in Intel, San Jose, CA)
• Wei Liu (MS'2009, now in Bloomberg, New York, NY)
• Lee Ritholtz (MS’2009, now in Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, NY)
• Prakash Mukre (MS'2008, now in NVIDIA, 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 (Click Here)

Teaching

• CSE 788 Computer-Aided Design for VLSI and Digital Systems (Sample Syllabus) 

•  CSE 691Machine Intelligence with Deep Learning (Sample Syllabus)

• CSE/ELE464 Intro to VLSI Design (Sample Syllabus)

• CSE381 Computer Architecture (Sample Syllabus)

Department Services

• Graduate Program Director

• Member of several department committees

Professional Services

• Lead Guest Editor of
  • Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Special Issue on “Energy and Thermal Management of Embedded Computing"
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Special Issue on “ Adaptive Power Management for Energy and Temperature Aware Computing Systems " (Call for papers)
• Co-Chair of
  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2020)
  • Workshop on Hardware and Algorithms for Learning On-a-chip (HALO 2020), in confunction with  International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)  
  • Technical Program Committee of   IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2019)
  • IEEE International Workshop on Energy and Thermal Management of Embedded Computing (ETMEC 2011), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks ( ICCCN 2011 )
  • The First International IEEE Workshop on Thermal Modeling and Management: Chips to DataCenters (TMMC 2011), in conjunction with the International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2011)
  • International Workshop on Adaptive Power Management with Machine Intelligence (APMMI 2011), in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. (ICCAD 2011)
• 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
• Associate Editor of
  • IEEE Circuit and Systems Magzine (2019 ~ now ) 
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2019 ~ now  )  
  • ACM/SIGDA E-Newsletter (2005~2010)
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2013-2016)
• TPC member of
  • ICCAD, DAC, DATE, ISLPED, IEEE/IFIP EUC, GreenCom, ICCCN, VLSID

Other Services

• Director of NSF Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)