Mixed-Signal Nanometer Research Lab News

2008 News

Date	News
7/25/08	Ph.D. student, Duo Li’s paper titled: “Architecture-level thermal characterization for multi-core microprocessors” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems  (TVLSI).
7/20/08	Three US students from UC Riverside, Jacon Relles, Krystof Litomisky and Nemata Blyden came Tsinghua University as visiting students as part of NSF sponsored Ceitres program for summer 2008. They will stay in Beijing and enjoy the Summer Olympic Game from Aug. 8 to Aug. 22.
7/10/08	Prof. Tan visited the State-Key ASIC Lab at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and presented a talk “Architecture-level Thermal Modeling and Simulation for Chip-Multiprocessor Designs”.
6/29/08	Prof. Tan visited Tsinghua University and will stay in Tsinghua for the summer 2008 to collaborate with Tsinghua’s faculty at EDA lab of Computer Science and Technology on the statistical interconnect and power grid analysis and optimization. The joint project was sponsored by the National Science Foundation IRES program.
5/15/08	Ph.D. student, Duo Li and Ning Mi will work as interns in Synopysis Corp , which is the leading VLSI design tool and solutions (EDA) company in the word, for the coming summer (2008).
5/10/08	Ph.D. student Ruijing Shen and Hai Wang are awarded DAC 2008 Young Student Support Program (YSSP) award to support their participation to DAC 2008 to be held in Anaheim, CA from June 8-13, 2008.
5/12/08	Our prayer and hearts go to the peoples who died or hurt in the Sichun earthquake happening today in China.
3/19/08	Ph.D. student Duo Li passed his oral exam titled “Architecture-level Thermal Behavioral Modeling for Multi-Core Microprocessors”.
3/13/08	Ph.D. student Boyuan Yan’s paper “Second-order balanced truncation for passive order reduction of RLCK circuits”, has been accepted by IEEE Transaction on Circuit and System II.
3/5/08	Prof. Sheldon Tan is appointed as a Guest Professor in Fudan University, one of the best Universities in China. He will collaborate with State-Key ASIC Lab at Fudan for nanometer VLSI research and education. State-Key ASIC Lab at Fudan is the only central government funded research Lab and the largest training center for VLSI design and CAD engineers in China.
3/3/08	Ph.D. student Pu Liu successfully passes his Ph.D. thesis defense titled “Advanced Model Reduction and Simulation Techniques for Integrated Electronic and Thermal Circuits”. Congratulate on Dr. Pu Liu. Pu will join Cadence Design System this month. We wish Pu continuing success in his future endeavors.
2/28/08	Prof. Jiang Lin, who is an expert on the communication VLSI chip design from Xi'an Institute of Post & Telecommunications, China, comes to visit MSLAB as a visiting scholar for 6 month. Welcome Dr. Lin Jiang and be part of MSLAB.
1/15/08	Ph.D. student Wei Wu successfully passes his Ph.D. thesis defense titled “Power/Thermal Modeling and Dynamic Thermal Management for SRAM Structure”. Congratulate on Dr. Wei Wu. Wei will join Intel next month. We wish Wei continuing success in her future endeavors.
1/5/08	Ph. D. student Pu Liu accepted the job offer from Cadence Design Systems Inc. He will work as an senior member of technical staff in the coming summer. Congratulation on Pu.
1/3/08	Ph.D. student Wei Wu accepted the job offer to work in Intel Research Lab as a researcher scientist. Wei will start to work in the coming summer. Congratulation on Wei.

2007 News

Date	News
12/1/2007	Ceitres@UCR is launched at BCOE to recruit more undergraduate students, specially underrepresented minority students to participate the NSF-funded student training and visiting programs for computer engineering students at UCR. Mr. Jun Wang is the program co-director.
10/15/2007	Ph.D. student Ning Mi’s paper “Statistical analysis of on-chip power delivery networks considering lognormal leakage current variations with spatial correlations” has been accepted by IEEE Transaction on Circuit and System I .
10/9/2007	Ph.D. Student Wei Wu won the Best Paper Award on her paper “Improving the reliability of on-chip caches under process variations”, in Proc. International Conference Computer Design (ICCD’07), Lake Tahoe, CA 2007. Congratulation on Wei!
9/9/2007	New Ph.D. students, Ms. Ruijing Shen, who graduated from Tsinghua Univ with BS and MS, and Mr. Hai Wang, who graduated from Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology with BS, (along David Kwak graduated from UCR) Jointed MSLAB. Welcome Ruijing, Hai and David.
8/29, 2007	Prof. Sheldon Tan’s joint research projects with Cadence Design System (#07-105) and Intel Corporation (#07-101) have been funded by UC MICRO program.
8/10, 2007	Three UCR students, David, Kwak, Thom Eguia, Curtis Yu participated the NSF International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program. The three students spent one month (From July 10 to Aug. 10) in Tsinghua University, China. See details here.
6/29/2007	Prof. Tan visited Tsinghua University and will stay in Tsinghua for the summer 2007 to collaborate with Tsinghua’s faculty at EDA lab of Computer Science and Technology on the statistical interconnect and power grid analysis and optimization. The joint project was sponsored by the National Science Foundation IRES program.
5/18/07	Ph.D. student Hang Li has successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation on Dr. Li.
5/8/07	Ph.D. student, Jeffrey Fan has successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation on Dr. Fan. He accepted a position of a tenure track assistant professor for Florida International University.
5/8/07	Ph.D. student Duo Li was award DAC 2007 Young Student Support Program (YSSP) award to support his trip to DAC 2007 to be held in San Diego from June 4-8, 2007.
5/1/07	Ph.D. students, Pu Liu and Boyuan Yan will work as an intern in Synopysis Corp and Wei Wu will work for Intel Corp. for the coming summer (2007).
3/20/07	Two EE undergraduate students James Pelen and Thom Jefferson Eguia in MSCAD Lab have received the Verizon Foundation Fellowship awards provided by Verizon Corporation. The two students have been working with Professor Sheldon Tan as undergraduate researchers from 2006.  see the department news.
1/2/07	Ph.D. Student, Jeffrey Fan has been appointed as a tenure track assistant professor in West Virginia University (Institute of Technology). Jeffrey will start his academic career there.

2006 News

Date	News
11/29,2006	Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) along with Prof. Franck Vahid in CSE won Verizon scholarship, which is provided by Verizon Communication to support the EE/CS/CE retention efforts at UCR Bourns College of Engineering.
9/10/2006	Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) won a National Science Foundation INT/OISE Award (OISE-0623038) for his research project titled “IRES: Development of global scientists by research collaborations on simulation and optimization of nanometer integrated systems”. This grant will support Dr. Tan’s collaborative research with Tsinghua Univ. China for three years with total funding $150K.
9/11/2006	Dr. Sheldon Tan’s retention program for computer engineering students at UCR will continue to be funded for another year by Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The SIA-SST program starts last year at UCR and the effects was very positive (see IEEE-USA Today’s news). As a result, SIA decides to fund for the second year at UCR. Dr. Tan is the PI and Prof. Frank Vahid is the co-PI for this program.
9/10/2006	Prof. Sheldon Tan’s joint research project with Cadence Design System tilted ” Bahavioral and compact modeling of mixed-signal and RF circuits” was funded by UC MICRO program (#06-252).
6/9/2006	Undergraduate students Amalia Aviles, David Kwak, Qing Zhang successfully finished their Senior Design Course EE175 titled “Trajectory Model Order Reduction of VLSI systems”.
6/5/2006	Ph.D. student Boyuan Yan won the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Student Support Award to support his participation of the DAC conference to be held in San Francisco, July 24-28, 2006.
4/20/2006	Dr. Sheldon Tan was selected as a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).
2/9/2006	Dr. Sheldon Tan (as a co-PI) (together with Dr. Jun Yang (PI) and Dr. Jie Chen) won a National Science Foundation CISE/CCF award for this research project titled “Fast Software Thermal Sensing and Control for Efficient Dynamic Thermal Management”. The NSF project ($275k) will fund the thermal and power modeling and simulation research at UCR’s EE and CSE departments for 3 years.
2/8/2006	Jeffrey Fan won the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) award for his project titled “Stochastic On-chip Power Delivery Network Analysis and Optimization Considering Process Variations”, He will work at Tsinghua University for the summer 2006, which is funded by this program.
2/2/2006	Amalia Aviles’ research project “Model Order Reduction of Linear Time Invariance Circuits” is supported by UC undergraduate Senior Student Research Grant.

2005 News

Date	News
11/19/2005	Amalia Aviles presented her work “Model Order Reduction for Linear Time Invariant Circuits” at Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR).
11/18/2005	Prof. Chung-Kuan Cheng from UCSD gave a talk “High-Performance Interconnect and Packaging” in Electrical Engineering Dept. and visited MSCAD Lab.
9/13/2005	Prof. Sheldon Tan’s joint research project with Cadence Design System tilted” Combined Multi-Input Multi-Output Model Order Reduction and Topology Reduction for High-Performance VLSI Systems” was funded by UC MICRO program (#05-111).
9/15/2005	New Ph.D. student Ning Mi and Boyuan Yan joined MSLAB.
6/25/2005	Prof. Xianlong Hong and Prof. Xiangqing He from Tsinghua University visited MSLAB at UCR.
6/17/05	UCR’s team research paper titled “Partitioning-based approach to fast on-chip decap budgeting and minimization” was nominated for the Best Paper Award in 42^nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA 2005. (16 papers out of 735 submissions are nominated for the Best Paper Award, 2%).
6/8/05	Dr. Tan’s collaboration research initiative with Tsinghua University, China was funded by National Science Foundation (OISE-0451688).
5/24/05	UCR team (PI: Dr. Sheldon Tan and co-PI: Prof. F. Frank Vahid) won the semiconductor industry association (SIA)- SST award.
5/20/05	Undergraduate student Amalia Aviles was supported by National Science Foundation via UCR MSRIP program for her summer internship at Mixed-Signal Nanometer VLSI Research Lab.