Biography

    Ph.D., Department of ECE, University of Texas at Austin, March 1996
    MSCS, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1991

Research Interests

    Data mining and machine learning for test, diagnosis, validation and verification
    (Yes, that is everything I do for research now)

Prior Academic & Industry Experiences

   Assistant/Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Group,
       Department of ECE, University of California -
       Santa Barbara, California, 2001-2009.
   Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Group,
       Department of EE, Texas A&M University,
       College Station, Texas, Spring 1999 - Fall 2000.
    CAD Research Consultant, Test and Verification, PowerPC Design Team,
       Motorola, Austin, Texas, 1/1/1999 - 12/31/2000.
    CAD Research & Development, Tools and Methodologies, Somerset PowerPC   Design Center, Motorola, Austin, Texas, March 1996- Dec 1998.
    Member of Technical Staff, Mathematics Research Center,
       AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, 1991-1995 summers

Honors & Awards

    SRC Technical Excellence Award 2010
    Best Panel Award, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2003
   Best Paper Award, Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe, 2003
   Best Paper Award, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 1999
   Best Paper Award,  Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe, 1998
    Motorola Silver Quill Award
    SRC Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1996

Professional Services

   Co-founded the IEEE Microprocessor Test and Verification (MTV) Workshop. He has served and is currently serving in the program committee for various conferences, including ISQED, IEEE VTS, ITC, DATE, ICCD, ICCAD, IEEE HLDVT, IEEE ATS, VLSI-DAT, Design Con, IOLTS, etc.

Courses: ECE 156A, 156B/255B

Here is my publication up to 2003

publications up to 2006 can be found at this publication page

Publications after 2007 are mostly on the SRC web site. I don't like to publicize my papers any more. When you get older, you realize papers don't mean anything if you can't make a real impact.

So far, I have graduated 10 Ph.Ds, with two more in the next 6 months. The list shows where they are:

#1: Cadence Design, Inc.
#2: SpringSoft, Inc.
#3: Google, Inc.
#4: EE dept, NCTU, Taiwan
#5: MIT business school
#6: Intel
#7: In Taiwan, joined a start-up in Taiwan, which just IPO and the company was the "king of stock" in Oct, 2010
#8: nVidia
#9: Intel
#10: AMD
#11: upcoming, TBD
#12: either Apple or Freescale