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