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
| 2008 - present | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering |
| 2003 - 2008 | 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 SUMMARY
VLSI Design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems.
Yuan Xie has published more than 100 refereed articles in journals and conferences in the areas of design automation and novel architecture for Three-dimensional IC Design (3D ICs), emerging memory technologies, low power and thermal-aware design, system-level synthesis and high-level synthesis for embedded systems. He has graduated 5 Ph.D. students and is currently supervising 12 Ph.D. graduates. He has served as an investigator on 10 research grants administered by US Federal agencies (including National Science Foundation and DARPA, Semiconductor Research Corporation) and 8 research grantsfrom industry. These projects have resulted in the design of new CAD tools and optimizations, and novel architectures for
emerging technologies such as 3D ICs and emerging memory technologies. He has received Best Paper Award (ASP-DAC 2008),
and several Best Paper Nominations(ICCAD 2006, ASP-DAC 2009 and ASP-DAC 2010). Through extensive collaboration
with Industry partners (IBM, Qualcomm, Honda, Intel,
Seagate), he has helped transition research ideas to industry.
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research projects.
| 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. |
[Click here for a complete list of publications]
[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 | |