Alumni
1.
R. D. Lou,
Ph. D., 1990,
Thesis title: " Efficient Algorithm for Permutation Problems
with Applications"
Work
after graduation: C and C Research, Taiwan.
2.
Charles
Chiang,
Ph.D., December 1991,
Thesis
title: " Efficient Algorithms for the Global Routing Problem"
Work
after graduation: International Business Machinery (IBM) Member of Consulting
Staff, Development of Clock Tree Synthesis tools for cell based design.
Current Position: R&D Director, Advanced Technology Group, Synopsys Inc.
3.
Jason K. F. Liao,
Ph.D., December 1991,
Thesis
title: "Single Layer Global Routing"
Work
after graduation: IBM (and then Avant!) Senior designer, Development of
High-performance routing tools for deep-submicron technology.
Current Position: Staff Engineer, Simplex Solutions, Inc.
4.
Gary K.H. Yeap,
Ph.D., March 1993,
Thesis
title: " High Level Physical Design of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits"
Work
after graduation: Manager, Low Power Design Technology Department,
Motorola.
Research and development of Computer-Aided Design techniques for
designing low power consumption chips. Engineering and personnel management of
software development projects.
Author
of the book: Theory and Practice of Low-Power Design .
Current
Position: Senior Staff Engineer, Simplex Solutions, Inc.
5.
J. D. Cho,
Ph.D., June 1993,
Thesis
title: "High Performance Physical Design in Multi-layer Packages"
Employment:
June 1993-present, Two years at Samsung and then at Dept. of Electronic
Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Korea.
Work
after graduation: Assistant (now an Associate) Professor and director of
Algorithmic Design Automation Lab. Research interests include VLSI/MCM design
automation algorithms, deep-submicron physical design, and lower power
high-level synthesis.
Author
of the book: High Performance Design Automation for Multi-Chip Modules
(co-authored with Paul Franzon); 1995.
6.
D. S. Chen,
Ph.D., August 1995,
Thesis
title: "Techniques for Low Power Circuit Design"
Employment:
Associate Professor of Information Engineering and Computer Science Department
at Fen-Chia Univ, Taiwan.
7.
Weiliang Lin,
Ph.D., September 1995,
Thesis
title: "Interaction between Logic Synthesis and Physical Design"
Work
after graduation: Senior CAD engineer, INTEL. Design of register transfer level
timing/area estimation considering interconnection.
8.
Salil Raje,
Ph. D., March 1996,
Thesis
title: " Efficient Algorithms for High Level Synthesis"
Work
after graduation: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Current
Position: Technical manager of physical design, Monterey Design Systems
9.
Gustavo Tellez,
Ph.D., April 1996,
Thesis
title: "Timing and Power Driven Algorithms for Physical Design Problems"
Employment:
April 1996- present, IBM (East Fishkill and Yorktown Heights).
Work
after graduation: Advisory engineer scientist.
Design
for Profit: layout level yield measurement and yield optimization tools and
methodologies, and Team leader for IBM EDA Circuit Bench Automation Team.
10.
Amir Farrahi,
Ph.D., February 1996
Thesis
Title: "Fast and Predictable FPGA Technology Mapping"
Work
after graduation: IBM Research Labs at Yorktown Heights.
Best
Dissertation Award, 1997, from Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Northwestern Univerity.
11.
James Crenshaw,
Ph.D., March 1998
Thesis
Title: " Behavioral Level Power Estimation"
Work
after graduation: Motorola Corporate Research Lab., Adjunct Professor at
Northwestern University.
12.
Maogang Wang,
Ph.D., April 2000
Thesis
Title:
“Placement of Large Industrial Circuits”
Work
after graduation: Simplex
13.
Kiarash
Bazargan,
Ph.D., August
2000
Thesis
Title: “Efficient Algorithms for Reconfigurable Systems”
Work
after graduation: Univ of Mennesota, ECE department
14. Xiaojian Yang, Ph.D., June 2002
Thesis Title: "Congestion and Timing Optimization for Standard-Cell Placement"
Work after graduation: Synplicity
15. Ankur Srivastava, Ph.D., August 2002
Thesis Title: "Methodologies for Predictability Optimization Through Resource Binding"
Work after graduation: Univ of Maryland, College Park, ECE department
15. Ryan Kastner, Ph.D., August 2002
Thesis Title: "Synthesis Techniques and Optimizations for Reconfigurable Systems "
Work after graduation: Univ of California, Santa Barbara, ECE department
16. Seda Ogrenci Memik, Ph.D., August 2003
Thesis Title: "Design Planning for Synthesis"
Work after graduation: Northwestern University, Evanston, ECE department
17. Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Ph.D., August 2003
Thesis Title: "Predictable Design by Timing Budget Management"
Work after graduation: University of California, Irvine, CS department
18. Soheil Ghiasi, Ph.D., August 2004
Thesis: "Reconfigurable Computing in Heteogeneous Collaborative Systems"
Work after graduation: University of California, Davis, ECE department
19. Bo-Kyung Choi, Ph.D., 2005
Thesis: "Hierarchical Techniques for Mixed Size VLSI Placement"
Work after graduation: Magma Design Automation
20. Roozbeh Jafari, Ph.D., 2006
Thesis: "Medical Embedded Systems"
Work after graduation: PostDoc at UC Berkeley and University of Texas, Dallas, EE department
21. Philip Brisk, Ph.D., 2006
Thesis: "Advances in Static Single Assignment Form and Register Allocation "
Work after graduation: PostDoc at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
22. Taraneh Taghavi, Ph.D., 2007
Thesis: "Prediction Methods for Large-Scale Circuits in the Presence of IP Blocks "
Work after graduation: IBM Research
23. Ani Nahapetian, Ph.D., 2007
Thesis: "Algorithms for Embedded Systems with Medical Applications "
Work after graduation: California State University, Dominguez Hills, CS department, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Telehealth Institute at UCLA
24. Foad Dabiri, Ph.D., 2008
Thesis: "Wireless Health: Reliability Oriented Design and Optimization"
Work after graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Telehealth Institute at UCLA