Meet the team

Professor C.-J. Richard Shi

Since 2004, Richard has been a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he joined in 1998 as an Assistant Professor. He received a prestigious Doctoral Prize from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and a Governor-General's Silver Medal in 1995 for his PhD Dissertation in computer science from the University of Waterloo. His current research interest includes energy-efficient circuit and system design for sensing, computing, learning and communication. Since 2005, he has directed several sponsored research projects in the area of ADC, PLL, SerDes and LDPC design. Previously, he worked in the area of computer-aided design of mixed-signal integrated circuits, in which for his contribution he was elevated to a Fellow of IEEE in 2005. He received several awards for his research including Donald O. Pederson Best IEEE Transactions on CAD Paper Award, Best Paper Awards from the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, and the SRC Technical Conference, and an NSF CAREER Award. He has served ten years as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, twice as an Associate Editor, once as a Guest Editor, of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, as well as Transactions Briefs.

Chong Li

Chong's research interest lies in deep learning complexity reduction using constrained optimization. Previously he worked on the simulation and verification of complex mixed-signal circuits, including developing a novel automatic test pattern generation framework that addresses verification challenges in modern mixed-signal design. Chong is a recipient of the Intel Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corporation Education Alliance (SRCEA) Graduate Fellowship. Before joining UW SSRL, Chong received his master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree from the Purdue University.

Aili Wang

Aili's research interest lies in the RF/MM-wave design and Wire-line Transceiver design. Her current research focuses on the Multilevel Transmitter design targeting on the high speed and low power. Aili received her master degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China at May, 2013. She joined Silicon System Research Lab in September, 2013.

Ailing Piao

Ailing’s research interest lies in the analog and mixed-signal design, especially the low power SAR ADCs and SerDes. She received her bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in July 2015. In September 2015, she started pursuing her PhD degree at the University of Washington, advised by Professor C. J. Richard Shi, and joined the Silicon Systems Research Laboratory.

Xindi Liu (Cindy)

Xindi received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2015, where she is currently pursuing Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering. She joined Silicon Systems Research Lab in September, 2017. Her current research interests include neural network acceleration and reconfigurable computing.

Huwan Peng (Frank)

Huwan received his bachelor's degree in the School of Microelectronics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016. He joined Silicon Systems Research Lab in September, 2016. Now he is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Huwan’s research interest includes digital integrated circuit design and deep learning.

Yi-Hsiang Huang (Phil)

Yi-Hsiang Huang received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2007, and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2010, respectively. After graduation, he worked in the semiconductor industry for more than 7 years. His research interests include analog/mixed-signal circuits. His current research focuses on the high speed and low power transceiver design. He started pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington, advised by Professor C. J. Richard Shi, and joined the Silicon Systems Research Laboratory in 2018.

Daniel Paul Starikov

Daniel Starikov received the dual B. S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is currently working towards his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He joined the Silicon Systems Research Lab in Jan. 2018.

Doruk Arisoy

Doruk Arisoy is currently working towards a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Embedded Computing Systems as well as a minor in Mathematics at the University of Washington. He has industry experience in computer networking and software development. He joined the Silicon Systems Research Lab in September of 2018.