Education

• 09/93 ~ 07/98: B.E. in Automatic Control, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. Entered College at 12 as a gifted youth. Thesis: Implementation of a Small Distributed Control System

• 09/98 ~ 05/01: M.E. in Control Science and Engineering, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. Master Thesis: An Automatic Measurement and Control System  based on Fieldbus Technology. Advisor: Prof. Ren Shi

• 09/01 ~ 12/05: Ph.D. in Computer Engineering , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Ph. D. Dissertation: Fast Interconnect Optimization. Advisor: Prof. Weiping Shi.

Professional Experience

• 06/2006~now, IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, Texas. Researching and developing next generation VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Computer-Aided Design algorithms and tools that are used to construct high performance microprocessors, gaming chips and other computer chips (cell phones, graphics cards, and networking chips) from 90/65/45/32/22 nm technology;

• 01/2005~06/2006, Senior techinal staff, Co-founder, Pextra Corp., College Station, Texas. Designed new software tool for fast parasitic extraction and simulation of VLSI circuits and packages; Conducted research in the field of efficient extraction algorithms for VLSI circuits and packages. Pextra was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009.

• 05/2004~08/2004, Software developer, IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, Texas.

Research Interest

HONOR AND AWARDS

• IBM 7th Invention Plateau, 2011.

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2011 Regions 1-7 Chapter of the Year Award (served as the Secretary and Vice Chair).

• ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2011.

• Two IBM Research Division Awards (for technical accomplishments).

• Two IBM Research 2010 Technical Accomplishments.

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, Aug 4, 2010.

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, July 30, 2010.

• 1st Place, IBM Austin New Talent Showcase August 5th, 2010

• IBM Research 2009 Technical Accomplishment

• IBM Research 2008 Outstanding Technical Accomplishment

• IBM Bravo Award, 2008.

• 2008 ICCAD Best Paper Nominee

• 2008 ISQED Best Paper Nominee

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2007 Outstanding Young Author Award. http://www.ece.tamu.edu/NewsAndEvents/Newsletter/Vol10No5/cas.html. Photo

• Best Paper Award, Asia And Pacific Design Automation Conference 2007. http://www.ece.tamu.edu/NewsAndEvents/Newsletter/Vol10No5/shi.html

• IBM Research 2006 Technical Accomplishment

• Applied Materials Fellowship, Applied Materials Company, Jan, 2002 to Dec, 2002.

HONOR AND AWARDS (NON-Acdemic)

• Top 10 Winners in IBM n.Fluent Translation Challenge in Chinese, three times

• One of the MCs (Master of Ceremonies) of “Giving Light to Rebuild Hope – China 5.12 Earthquake Disaster Relief Performance”, 2008. This is the fundraising event organized by Austin Chinese Disaster Relief Committee. The event rose over $20,000 and donated to earthquake victims.

• Bing MCs for several Chinese New Year Party Showes hold by Texas A&M CCSA, 2002-2004.

• Bing MCs for several performance shows in Xi’an Jiaotong University, 1998-2001.

• 1st place, MC (Master of Ceremonies) Contest, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2000.

• Championship Team Substitute Member, National College Debating Contest, China, 1998.

• Championship Team Substitute Member, CCTV Invitational Debating Contest (CCTV is the official national TV station in China), 1998.

• Championship, University Speech Contest, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1996.

• IEEE Senior Member.

• Member of IEEE Circuits and System Society

• Secretary of IEEE Central Texas Section since 2011.02

• Vice Chair of IEEE SSC/CAS Joint Chapter of the Central Texas Section, 2011.01 to 2011.12

• Secretary of IEEE SSC/CAS Joint Chapter of the Central Texas Section, 2009.12 to 2010.12

• Session Coordinator, IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2011 "Advances in Global Routing".

• Session Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2011, Special Session, "2011 TAU Power Grid Simulation Contest".

• Session Judge, SRC TECHCON 2011.

• Session Chair, Design Automation Conference, 2011, "Routing revived".

• Contest Chair, Organizer, 2011 Power Grid Simulation Contest at TAU workshop.

• Ad HOC Member of Michigan Tech University Graduate Faculty, 2011.

Technical Program Committee Memberships

• IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2011

• International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2010

• International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) 2010, 2011

• Guest Editor of Special issue "CAD for Gigascale SoC Design and Verification Solutions", VLSI Design Journal.

• Chair of Track, Physical Design and Manufacturability; Timing analysis, circuit and interconnect simulation; Signal integrity and design reliability, analog/mixed signal and RF, Design Automation Conference Ph.D. Forum 2010, 2011.

• DAC Ph.D. Forum 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI) 2009, 2010

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2007, 2008.

• Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2008

• SRC TECHCON 2007

• CADathlon 2007 (Problem contributor)
  

Technical Referee

• IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and System (TCAD)

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II)

• IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration System (TVLSI)

• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

• Microelectronics Journal

• Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2009, 2010, 2011
  

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) 2004, 2005, 2007

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008

• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2007