Mission 2006:
Charles: Demonstrate that his data mining based functional TPG approach can indeed work on industrial designs. |
Leonard: Graduate in Fall, 2006 |
Benjamin: Graduate in Fall, 2006 |
Hui: Pass screening exam; establish a joint venture between National Semiconductor and our lab |
Sean Wu: Develop a thesis topic |
Onur: Finish the development of various learning and mining engines |
Talayeh: Develop a project for thesis |
Sean G: Pass screening exam; Make contribution to the simulation data mining project |
Pouria: Pass screening exam; Develop a project for thesis |
Li: No mission; rest |
Mission 2005:
Li: My continuous mission is to make the students successful. Then, I would like to make my friends successful. When everyone around me is successful, I am successful. |
Charles: Demonstrate that his novel functional TPG approach can indeed work on industrial designs. Publish 6 papers by the end of the year. |
Leonard: Establish theoretical foundations for his current research results. Develop practical and efficient solutions for post-silicon timing validation. |
Benjamin: Answer the fundamental question: Do we need statistical timing in pre-silicon analysis? |
Hui: Develop a project to apply test data mining techniques in analog designs |
Sean: Pass screening exam. Publish 2 papers on test data mining techniques |
Onur: Pass screening exam. Develop a project by applying computational learning in design verification. |
Talayeh: Develop a project on improving design-silicon correlation |