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Academic Preparation

5/97 – 5/02 PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Major: Integrated Circuits, Minors: Communications, Statistics
Dissertation: A Hierarchical, Automated Design Flow for Low-Power, High-Throughput Digital Signal Processing IC’s
Advisor: Robert W. Brodersen
8/95 – 5/97 MS, Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Major: Integrated Circuits
8/90 – 12/94 BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Majors: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minor: Materials Science

Professional Experience

7/02 - Present Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2/02 – 6/02 Consultant, Chameleon Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
- Developed an automated design flow in the Avant! Apollo II environment
2/02 – 6/02 Post Doctoral Researcher, University of California at Berkeley
- Adapted design flow from 180nm to 130nm technology and from the Cadence Design-Planner environment to Cadence First Encounter
2/95 – 6/95 Praktikant (Intern)
Hewlett Packard GmbH, Böblingen, Germany
- Programmed self-configuration routines and ran environmental tests for an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

Teaching Experience

Spr. ’06,’05,’04 Deisgn of Complex Digital Systems
Verilog Syntax, Design and Simulation, Interfaces, and Microcontrollers
Fall ‘05,’04,’03 VLSI Systems Design
Custom Integrated Circuit Design, Hand Analysis of CMOS Static and Dynamic Circuits, Layout, Parasitic Extraction, SPICE Simulation
Spring 2003 Advanced ASIC Design
Physical Design of Circuits with multiple IP Cores, Timing Closure, Algorithms for Static Timing Analysis, Placement and Routing, Wire Estimation
Fall 2002 Fundamentals of Logic Design
Boolean Algebra, Two-Level Logic Representations, Karnaugh Maps, State-Machine Design

Publications

See the Publications link to the left

Professional Society Memberships

  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • IEEE Solid State Circuits Society

Service to Professional Organizations

  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Publicity Char (2004), Program Committee (2003-2004)
  • International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Program Committee (2005), Track Co-Chair (2004), Program Committee (2003)
  • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), External Reviewer (2004)
  • IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Reviewer (2006, 2005, 2003)
  • IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Reviewer (2006, 2005)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (2006, 2005, 2004)
  • Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systms (ISCAS), Review Committee Member (2005)