Education

• PhD: Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2004
• MA: Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2001
• MS: Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 1999
• BS:  Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing,  P.R. China, 1997

Research Interests and Supports

• Application-specific instruction set processor (ASIPs) synthesis - supported by NSF grant
• Power analysis and optimization of ICs and systems - supported by NSF grant
• Mobile computing systems - UConn faculty large grant
• Underwater sensor networks - Internal seed grant and NSF CRI
• High performance and low power computer architecture - UConn ECE start-up grant
• Hardware/software co-synthesis - UConn ECE start-up grant
• Architectural support for security enhancement

Students

• Xuan Guan (PhD)

  -  MS: Chinese Academy of Science, BS: Beijing Institute of Technology, China

• Hai (David) Lin (PhD)

  -  MS: Tsinghua University, BS: Tsinghua, China

• Juan Carlos Martinez Santos (PhD)

  -  MS: Universidad Industrial de Santander, BS: Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

• Tiansi Hu (PhD)

  - BS: Beijing University, China

Alumni

• Chulwoo Park (PhD candidate 2006-2007, now in UConn)
• Jeff Wroten (BS'2006, first job: Harris Corporation, Maryland)
• Kolawole Ladoja (Senior, REU program)

Publications

Teaching

Department Services:

• Department colloquium coordinator (schedule).

Professional Services

• TPC member for IEEE International Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP) 2008.
• TPC member for IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI-SOC) 2008.
• Session chair for IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI-SOC) 2007.
• TPC member for IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2008.
• TPC member for IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2007, 2008.
• TPC member and session chair for Boston Area Computer Architecture Workshop (BARC) 2007.
• Review Committee Member (RCM) for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2006, 2007
• Faculty advisor for IEEE UConn Chapter (2005-2008).
• Chair for IEEE Connecticut Section Women-in-Engineering Affinity Group (2006-current). (Link)