Zhuo Feng Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI Office: EERC 513 Contact: (906) 487-3116 Email: zhuofeng at mtu dot edu VLSI Design Automation Group

Biography | Research | Honors | Publications | Teaching | Services | Opportunities

Biography

I received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX in 2009, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2005 and the B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2003. As of July 2009, I have been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, where I am affiliated with the Computer Engineering Group. My research interests are focused on VLSI design and CAD, covering a variety of topics such as scalable IC modeling and analysis methods, parasitics extraction and model order reduction, variation-aware VLSI circuit modeling/optimization and statistical static timing analysis. I spent summers at Mentor Graphics Inc, Wilsonville, OR, and Magma Design Automation, Austin, TX, in 2007 and 2008 respectively, working on a statistical design-dependent interconnect corner extraction program,  and the hardware acceleration of SPICE circuit simulations.

Research

• General areas in VLSI designs and CAD
• Parallel heterogeneous computing
• Scalable algorithms for large-scale linear/nonlinear circuit simulations
• Modeling, analysis, and verification of power delivery networks (PDN)
• Interconnect modeling and analysis, parasitics extraction
• Variation-aware circuit modeling and optimization

Honors

• Best Paper Award Nomination, 2008 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (ICCAD'08)
• Best Paper Award Nomination, 2006 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (ICCAD'06)
• Student travel grant, 2007 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, (DAC'07)

Publications (Link to my recent publications)

Teaching

EE5900 Advanced Computational Methods for VLSI Systems (Spring 2013)

EE3173 Hardware/Software System Integration (Fall 2012)

EE5900 Parallel VLSI CAD Algorithms (Spring 2012)

EE5970 Computer Engineering Seminar (Spring 2012)

EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis (Fall 2011)

EE5900 Advanced IC Modeling & Analysis (Spring 2011)

EE5970 Computer Engineering Seminar (Spring 2011)

EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis (Fall 2010)

EE4800 Computer Aided Design of VLSI Systems (Spring 2010)

EE5900 VLSI Modeling and Simulation (Fall 2009)

Services

Technical Program Committee member for:

IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2011, 2012

Technical Referee for:

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs 

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 

Integration, the Elsevier VLSI Journal

Parallel Computing, System and Applications

Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers

Springer Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Design Automation Conference

Opportunities

Students with solid electrical and computer engineering background are sought to work on research projects related to VLSI computer-aided design and large-scale modeling and simulation problems.

Last updated in August 2011. © Copyright by Zhuo Feng.