Yuan Xie
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
354E IST Building, University Park, PA, 16802
(814) 8657496
yuanxie@cse.psu.edu
http://www.cse.psu.edu/~yuanxie/
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| [Education] | [Experience] | [Awards] | [Publications] | [Patent] | [Funding] | |
| [Students] | [Teaching] | [Short Courses] | [Tutorials] | [Talks] | [Service] |
- Ph.D., Princeton University,
2002
- Thesis: Code Compression and Decompression Architecture for Embedded VLIW Processors
Advisor: Wayne Wolf
- Thesis: Code Compression and Decompression Architecture for Embedded VLIW Processors
- M.S., Princeton University, 1999
- B.S., Tsinghua University Beijing, P.R.China, 1997
| 2003 - present | Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering |
| 2002 - 2003 | IBM Microelectronic Division Essex Juction, Vermont Advisory Engineer in Worldwide Design Center |
| 1997 -2002 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering Department |
| 1998, 1999 | Mentor Graphics Inc. Wilson, OR Research Summer Intern in the Behavioral Synthesis group |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
VLSI Design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems.
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| 2008 | IBM Faculty Award |
| 2008 | Outstanding Teaching Award Nomination, College of Engineering, Penn State |
| 2008 | Department Faculty Teaching Award |
| 2008 | ASP-DAC 2008 Best Paper Award. |
| 2006 | National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. |
| 2006 | Chun-Hui Outstanding Overseas Scholar Award, Chinese Ministry of Education |
| 2006 | ICCAD 2006 Best Paper Award Nomination. |
| 2002 | SRC(Semiconductor Research Corporations) Inventor Recognition Award. |
| 2001 | International Conference on ASICs, Best Paper Award. |
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[1]. United States Patent. No.7,095,343. "Code Compression Algorithms and Architectures for Embedded Systems." Issued on August 22, 2006.
| 08/2007- 08/2009 |
National Science Foundation (NSF): CNS 0720659: Collaborative Research: Hybrid Timing Analysis via Multi-mode Execution. PI (Collaborative Research with Prof. Frank Mueller @ NCSU), $120,000. |
| 07/2007- 07/2010 |
National Science Foundation (NSF): CCF 0702617: HoDoo: Holistic Design of On-chip Interconnects. Co-PI (with C. Das and N. Vijaykrishnan), $630,894. |
| 01/2007- 01/2012 |
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: Process Variation Aware Embedded MPSoC Synthesis. PI, $400,000, plus $270,000 PennState match. |
| 09/2005- 09/2008 |
National Science Foundation (NSF): CNS 0454123: SEAT: Soft Error Analysis Toolset. Co-PI (with N. Vijaykrishnan, M. J. Irwin, and K. Unlu) $433,122. |
| 09/2006- 03/2008 |
DARPA: Technology and Design Infrastructure for High Performance Three-Dimensional ICs. PI (subcontract from IBM), $150,000. |
| 01/2008- 01/2009 |
Qualcomm InC. PI, $50,000 (gift). |
| 07/2007- 04/2008 |
Honda Research Institute: Three-Dimensional ICs Design. PI, $48,000. |
| 09/2007- 09/2008 |
Toyota ITC: Fault-tolerant System Design. Co-PI (with N. Vijaykrishnan), gift $60,000. |
| 07/2006- 12/2006 |
The Technology Collaborative (TTC): Digital Sandbox Course Collaboration Grant. PI, $27,330. |
| 1/2005- 12/2005 |
The Technology Collaborative (TTC): Embedded Hardware Face Detection of Classi¯cation. Co-PI (with N. Vijaykrishnan and H. Raju, R. Sharma), $256,392. |
| 09/2004- 3/2006 |
The Technology Collaborative (TTC): Transaction Level Power Modeling Methodology. Co-PI (with N. Vijaykrishnan and M.Kandemir), $149,903 plust $80,000 match from IBM. |
Doctoral Dissertations Supervised
| 2008 | Feng Wang | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering Deep Submicron (DSM) Design Automation Techniques to Mitigate Process Variations First Job: Qualcomm Inc. |
| 2007 | Yu Wang | Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (co-advised with Prof. Huazhong Yang) Optimization for the Leakage Current and Reliability in Digital Integrated Circuits First job: Postdoc in Tsinghua University. |
| 2006 | Wei-lun Hung | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Designing Cool Chips: Low Power and Thermal-Aware Design Methodologies First job: Lattice Inc. |
Master Supervised
| 2008 | Hitashi Dhawan | M.S. in Electrical Engineering First Job:. |
| 2007 | Han-wei Chen | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advised with N.Vijaykrishnan) Impact of Circuit Degradation on Design Security of Field Programmable Devices Now graduate student at University of Texas at Austin. |
| 2007 | Charles Addo-Quaye | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advised with N.Vijaykrishnan) Thermal-Aware Placement and Virtualization for Three Dimensional Network-on-Chip Designs Now Ph.D. student at PennState. |
| 2007 | Melvin Eze | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advised with N.Vijaykrishnan) Delay and Energy E±cient Data Transmission for On-Chip Buses Now Ph.D. student at PennState. |
| 2006 | Yinkun Xue | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Providing Energy-Aware Map Services to Mobile Devices First job: Siemens Inc. |
| 2005 | Thomas Richardson | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Analysis and Design of Scalable SoC Interconnects First job: Availink Inc. |
Current Students
| Ph.D. | Balaji Vaidyanathan | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Xiaoxia Wu | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Yibo Chen | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Xiangyu Dong | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Jin Ouyang | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Dimin Niu | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Tao Zhang | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Ph.D. | Guangyu Sun | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advise with A. Sivasubramaniam) |
| Ph.D. | Mike Debole | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advise with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
| Ph.D. | Prasanth Mangalagiri | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advise with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
| Ph.D. | Soumya Eachempati | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (co-advise with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
| M.S. | Paul Falkenstern | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, expected graduation date: 06/2008 |
| M.S. | Yogitha Puttasiddaiah | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, expected graduation date: 06/2008. |
| M.S. | Manu Parbhakar | M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, expected graduation date: 06/2008. |
| M.S. | Vishnu Nandakumar | M.S. in Electrical Engineering, expected graduation date: 06/2008 |
| Semester | Course number | Course | Evaluation | |
| Fall 2003 | CSE 597A | Modern VLSI Design | 6.29 out of 7 | |
| Fall 2003 | CSE 598C | Reliable and Low Power Design | 6.13 out of 7 | |
| Spring 2004 | CSE 477 | VLSI Digital Circuits | 5.50 out of 7 | |
| Fall 2004 | CSE 578 | CAD Tools | 5.91 out of 7 | |
| Spring 2005 | CSE 477 | VLSI Digital Circuits | 5.17 out of 7 | |
| Fall 2005 | CSE 578 | CAD Tools | 6.78 out of 7 | |
| Spring 2006 | CSE 331.1 | Computer Organization and Design | 5.54 out of 7 | |
| Spring 2006 | CSE 331.2 | Computer Organization and Design | 6.11 out of 7 | |
| Fall 2006 | CSE 578 | CAD Tools | 5.88 out of 7 | |
| Fall 2006 | CSE 431 | Introduction to Computer Architecture | 6.31 out of 7 | |
| Spring 2007 | CSE 477 | VLSI Digital Circuits | 6.53 out of 7 | |
| 05/2007 | 3-week Summer Short Course | Tsinghua University. Beijing, China | Advanced VLSI Design |
| 08/2006 | 3-week Summer Short Course | Tsinghua University. Beijing, China | Advanced VLSI Design |
| 05/2004 | 2-day Industrial Short Course | Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse. Pittsburgh, PA | Design of Reliable Power-Eficient Systems |
| 01/2004 | 2-day Industrial Short Course | Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse. Pittsburgh, PA | Design of Reliable Power-E±cient Systems |
| 5/2008 | GLSVLSI-08 | Half-day Tutorial: Technology, CAD Tools, and Designs for Emerging 3D Integration Technology with Syed M. Alam (Freescale) and Mike Ignatowski (IBM) Greatlake Symposium on VLSI |
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| 12/2006 | MICRO-06 | Half-day Tutorial: 3D Integration for Microarchitectures with K.Bernstein (IBM), B. Black (Intel), and G. Loh (Gatech) International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-39) |
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| 8/2006 | VLSI06 | Half-day Tutorial: Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chips (Invited) The 17th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium |
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| 10/2005 | ASICON05 | Half-day Tutorial: Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chips The 6th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON) |
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| 06/2005 | ISCA05 | Half-day Tutorial: Robust Systems Design from Unreliable Components with S. Mitra (Intel), L. Spainhower (IBM), and N. Vijaykrishnan (PSU) International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) |
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| 01/2005 | ASPDAC05 | Half-day Tutorial: Designing Reliable Circuit in the Presence of Soft Errors Asia-South-Pasific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
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| 10/2004 | ASPLOS04 | Full-day Tutorial: Computing in the Presence of Soft Errors (Invited) with N. Vijaykrishnan (PSU) Intl. Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems |
| 11/2007 | Qualcomm. | San Diego, CA |
| "3D IC Design" | ||
| 10/2007 | Seagate Technology LLC. | Bloomington, MN |
| " 3D IC Design Tutorial" | ||
| 10/2007 | SEMATECH 3D workshop | Albany, New York |
| "3D Archtecture Design" | ||
| 09/2007 | KAIST University | Daejeon, Republic of Korea |
| "Design Space Explorations for 3D ICs" | ||
| 05/2007 | Honda Research Institute. | Tokyo, Japan |
| "Design Automation for Three-dimensional ICs" | ||
| 05/2007 | Peking University | Beijing, China |
| "New Dimension for High Performance" | ||
| 04/2007 | IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) | Leuven, Belgium |
| "The Challenges of Designing 3D Microarchitectures" | ||
| 01/2007 | Dagstuhl Seminar on Power-Aware Computing Systems. | Dagstuhl, Germany |
| "Thermal Challenges in 3D Microarchitecture Design" | ||
| 10/2006 | ||
| "3D Microarchitecture Design" | ||
| 08/2006 | Intel China Research Center | Beijing, China |
| "3D Microarchitecture Design" | ||
| 03/2006 | IBM T.J.Watson Research Center. | Yorktown, NY |
| "The Challenges of Designing 3D Microarchitectures" | ||
| 10/2005 | IBM China Research Lab. | Shanghai, China |
| "Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chip" | ||
| 10/2005 | Peking University. | Beijing, China |
| "Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chip" | ||
| 10/2005 | Shanghai Jiaotong University. | Shanghai, China |
| "Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chip" | ||
| 05/2005 | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY |
| "Thermal-Aware Design for VLSI Chip" | ||
| 05/2005 | University of South Florida. | Tempa, FL |
| "Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chip" | ||
| 10/2004 | IBM Circuit Education Seminar. | |
| "Soft Errors: Interactions with Power Optimizations" |
IEEE Senior Member, ACM member
Professional Community
2007- Chair of Student Technical Activities on the Technical Activitites Board, IEEE Computer Society.
Editorial
| 2007- | Associate Editor | IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI). |
| 2007 | Guest co-Editor | ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies for Computer Systems (JETC) Special Issues on 3D ICs. |
Conferences/Workshops:
| 2008 | Program Committee Member | International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID 2008) |
| 2008 | Program Committee Member | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2008) |
| 2007-2008 | Program Committee Member | IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008) |
| 2007 | Session Chair | International Conference on Computer Aided Design(ICCAD) |
| 2007 | Program Committee Member | International Workshop on Trustworthiness, Reliability and Services in Ubiquitous and Sensor Networks (TRUST 2007) |
| 2006-2007 | Program Committee Member | International Conference on Communications, Circuits, and Systems |
| 2007 | Program Committee Member | International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2007) |
| 2007 | Program Committee Member | ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 2007) |
| 2007 | Program Committee Member | EDAA/PhD Forum, in conjunction with DATE 2007 |
| 2006-2008 | Program Committee Member, Finance Chair (2008) | IEEE/ACM Greatlake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) |
| 2006 | Program Committee Member | International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embed- ded Systems (CASES 2006) |
| 2006 | Program Committee Member | International Conference on Nano-networks (Nano-Net 2006) |
| 2006 | Program Committee Member | IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing |
| 2005 | Program Committee Member | International Conference on Embedded Software and System (ICESS'05) |
| 2005 | Tutorial Chair | ACM Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2005) |
| 2004-2005 | Session Chair | International Conference on Computer Design |
| 2003 | Session Chair | International Conference on ASICs |
Services to the University
| 2007- | IEEE Computer Society Advisor, PennState | |
| 2007- | Student Advisor, Engineering Advising Center, College of Engineering, PennState | |
| 2006-07 | Ph.D. Candidacy Exam Chair, Computer Science Engineering Dept, PennState | |
| 2005-06 | Department Colloquium Chair, Computer Science Engineering Dept, PennState | |
| 2003-05 | Graduate Committee, Computer Science Engineering Dept, PennState | |