Education

• 09/93 ~ 07/98: B.E. in Automatic Control, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.Entered College at 12 as a gifted youth.

Thesis: Implementation of a Small Distributed Control System

• 09/98 ~ 05/01: M.E. in Control Science and Engineering, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

Master Thesis: An Automatic Measurement and Control System based on Fieldbus Technology

Advisor: Prof. Ren Shi

• 09/01 ~ 12/05: Ph.D. in Computer Engineering , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.

Ph. D. Dissertation: Fast Interconnect Optimization.

Advisor: Prof. Weiping Shi.

Reserch Interest

My main research interests are Computer-Aided design of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-CAD) and design and analysis of algorithms related to VLSI CAD, including interconnect optimization in deep sub-micron technology, clock network synthesis for high speed chip design, variation tolerant design, fast parasitic extraction for VLSI circuits and packages, timing analysis with process variation, power efficient physical design and at-speed testing. I have coauthored 7 journals, 23 conference papers and 8 pending patents in VLSI design and CAD field. I developed several very fast buffer insertion algorithms to efficiently speed up the traditional interconnect optimization process in the VLSI design flow by orders of magnitude. Some algorithms are successfully implemented in industry tool and significantly improve the performance of previous tool. I also developed a new delay fault model considering parametric process variation and manufacturing defects and used it in a new fault simulation engine and an ATPG tool.

HONOR AND AWARDS

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2007 Outstanding Young Author Award. http://www.ece.tamu.edu/NewsAndEvents/Newsletter/Vol10No5/cas.html. Photo
• Best Paper Award, Asia And Pacific Design Automation Conference 2007. http://www.ece.tamu.edu/NewsAndEvents/Newsletter/Vol10No5/shi.html
• Applied Materials Fellowship, Applied Materials Company, Jan, 2002 to Dec, 2002
• Championship Team Substitute Member, National College Debating Contest, China, 1998.
• Championship Team Substitute Member, CCTV Invitational Debating Contest (CCTV is the official national TV station in China), 1998.
• Championship, University Speech Contest, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1996.

Professional Experience

• 06/2006~now, IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, Texas.
• 10/2005~06/2006, Senior techinal stuff, co-founder, Board of Director, Pextra Corp., College Station, Texas.
• 05/2004~08/2004, Software developer, IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, Texas.

• 01/2004~05/2004, Teaching Assistant for the course "ELEN 475: Introduction to VLSI Design", Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
• 08/2001~12/2004, Research Assistant at Computer Engineering Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
• 02/2000~06/2001, Design a monitoring & control system for FOCKE Cigarette Packing Machine. The design was put into production and well received by the company.
• 09/1999~01/2000, Teaching Assistant for the course "The Theorey of Control Automation", Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

Membership

IEEE Member, IEEE Circuits and System Society

Committee Member

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2007, 2008.
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2008
• SRC TECHCON 2007
• CADathlon 2007 (Problem contributor)
  
• DAC Ph.D. Forum 2008
  
• Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI) 2009

Technical Referee

• IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and System (TCAD)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II)
• IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration System (TVLSI)
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) 2004, 2005, 2007
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008
• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2007
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2007, 2008
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2008
• Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI) 2009