Supervisor:

Professor Ryan Kastner

Contact Info:

Best way to contact me is via email: wanggang@engineering.ucsb.edu

Research Interest:

• Reconfigurable Computing
• Hardware/Software Co-design for Embedded Systems
• Speech Recognition and Voice User Interface
• Image and Video Compression
• Applied Mathematics (optimization, heuristic/randomized algorithms, complexity)

Projects:

• CFG Execution Frequency Profiling based on SUIF
• Survey on Hardware/Software Partitioning Algorithms
• New method for Instruction Scheduling
• Routing Pattern Finder for results generated by VPR.
  The VPR benchmarks can be downloaded from here:
  1. MCNC-route-files.zip. 
  2. projects/route-files-virtex.gz. 
  3. route-file-no-timing-bend-0.gz. 
  4. route-file-no-timing-bend-1.gz. 

Publications:

• A New Approach for Task Level Computational Resource Bi-Partitioning (ps, pdf),
  15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and System, 2003, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
• System Level Partitioning for Programmable Platforms Using the Ant Colony Optimization(pdf),
  13th International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, 2004, Temecula, California, USA
• A High Performance Application Representation for Reconfigurable Systems(pdf),
  ERSA'04, 2004, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Courses:

• ECE 210A: Matrix Analysis and Computation
• ECE 594: Embedded System Design
• CS 290F: Randomized Algorithms
• Directed Research by Prof. Ryan Kastner

TA for ECE 154 in Fall'02

Places I've been:

• National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab, Dept. of CS, Michigan State University
• Interactive System Lab, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Computer Motion Inc. 

Places I'd like to go:

• Space Shuttle Launch 
• Las Vegas (again?!)
• Hong Kong