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]  


EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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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AWARDS & HONORS

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.

PUBLICATIONS

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PATENTS

RESEARCH FUNDING

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.

STUDENT SUPERVISION

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
     

TEACHING

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
         
         
         

SHORT COURSES

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

TUTORIALS

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
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)
8/2006 VLSI06   Half-day Tutorial: Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chips (Invited)
The 17th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium
10/2005 ASICON05   Half-day Tutorial: Thermal-Aware Design Techniques for Nanometer VLSI Chips
The 6th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON)
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)
01/2005 ASPDAC05   Half-day Tutorial: Designing Reliable Circuit in the Presence of Soft Errors
Asia-South-Pasific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
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


INVITED TALKS

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"  


SERVICE

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