Lab Members

Xiang Chen, PhD Student

  • Smartphone
  • OLED Display
  • Low Power Systems
  • System & Application Development
 xic33 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Microsoft, Star of Tomorrow Internship Program, Excellence Award
  • 2014 Randall Family Big Idea Start-up Competition Second Prize
  • 2012 DAC Young Student Support Program
Work Experience
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. (6/2014 - 9/2014)
  • Samsung Research, Dallas, TX. (7/2013 - 11/2013)
  • Samsung Research, Dallas, TX. (9/2012 - 12/2012)

Jie Guo, PhD Student

  • Performance optimization of SSD based storage system
  • Analysis of NAND flash device characteristics and error patterns
  • NAND flash-based storage system reliability improvement
 jig26 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • 2012 NVMW travel grant
Work Experience
  • Internship at Fusion-IO, Research (2013)
  • Huawei-Symantec Technology, Logic Engineer (2008 - 2011)

Beiye Liu, PhD Student

  • CAD for neuromorphic computing system
  • Machine learning
 bel34 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • DAC2013 Richard Newton Young Student Fellow

 
Work Experience
  • visiting scholar at HP research lab, Palo Alto, CA (2013)

Mengjie Mao, PhD Student

  • Prefetching Techniques for STT-RAM based Last-level Cache in CMP Systems
  • Coordinating Prefetching and STT-RAM based Last-level Cache
  • Management for Multicore Systems

 

 mem231 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Best paper award, GLSVLSI 2013
    Best paper candidate, ASPDAC 2014

Wujie Wen, PhD Candidate

  • Statistic Emerging Non-volatile Memory Tool Design
  • Novel ECC/Repair schemes for Emerging Memories
  • VLSI Circuit & Computer Architecture Design
 wuw2 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • 49th DAC A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship ($24,000), 2012
  • 49th DAC Young Student Support Program (YSSP) Award, 2012
Work Experience
  • Internship at Broadcom San Diego, Low Power Design & 60GHz Wireless Communication Chip Design (2012 - 2013)
  • AMD, Asic/Layout Design Engineer, AMD Shanghai (2011)

Yaojun Zhang, PhD Candidate

  • Statistical analysis and modeling on the persistent and non-persistent errors of STTRAM cells
  • Variation-tolerant STT-RAM circuit design methodology based on the cell asymmetric characteristic
  • STT-RAM prototype chip tape-out with SMIC 65nm technology
 yaz24 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Dean’s Scholarship of Swanson School of Engineering of University of Pittsburgh

Lu Zhang, PhD Student

  • Memristor modeling (TaOx, TiOx)
  • Application model
 luz14 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Work Experience
  • Internship at HP Labs, System Research Lab (2014)

Kent W. Nixon, PhD Student

  • Embedded and mobile computing
  • Mobile security
  • Machine-learning algorithms
 kwn2 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Air Force Visiting Student Scholarship, AFRL/RIB, Rome, NY, 2012 summer
  • A. Richard Newton Young Fellow, DAC 2013; Randall Family Big Idea Investment, 2014.
Work Experience
  • Microsoft Research Asia Internship, Mobile GPU Power Reduction Techniques (2014)

Yi-Chung Chen, PhD Candidate

  • Partial reconfiguration and power CAD tools for FPGA
  • Reconfigurable circuit for FPGA based on non-volatile memory
  • Circuit design and structure of Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)
  • Device & Process design of MOSFET
 yic63 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Work Experience
  • Technical Support Engineer, Texas Instruments (2008)

Chaofei Yang, PhD Student

  • Neural network
  • STT-RAM design
 chy61 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar

Chunpeng Wu, PhD Student

  • Computer Vision
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Deep Learning
 chw127 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • First place in Chinese Handwriting Character Recognition Competition at ICDAR 2013, Washington, D.C., U.S.
  • Three patents on visual saliency detection and optical character recognition; Fujitsu General Manager Award, 2013
  • Excellent Graduate and Thesis Award, 2011
Work Experience
  • Full-time at Fujitsu R&D Center, Computer Vision Researcher (2011 - 2014)

Enes Eken, PhD Student

  • Emerging memory technologies and VLSI design/CAD
  • MTJ modeling and reliability issues of MTJs
 ene4 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Turkey
Work Experience
  • Research and Development Engineer, Fultek Automation and Control Company (2011)

Ismail Bayram, PhD Student

  • Emerging memory devices (STT-RAM, Memristor, FeRam etc.)
  • Asymmetric Differential STT-RAM Cell Structure
  • Circuit design and VLSI/CAD
 isb11 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Turkish Government Scholarship

Xue Wang, PhD Student

  • Computer architecture
  • Emerging memory
 xuw at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Work Experience
  • Intern, Huawei Technologies (2011)

Chenchen Liu, PhD Student

  • Hardware realization in neuromorphic computing
 chl192 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Best paper award of ISVLSI 2014

Xiuyuan Bi, PhD Candidate

  • Circuit and architecture level co-optimization of STT-RAM caches
  • STT-RAM prototype chip tape-out with SMIC 65nm technology
 xib5 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Awards & Travel Grants
  • Two best paper nominations of ICCAD , 2012 & 2013
  • Best academic achievement award of Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Work Experience
  • Internship at Corp R&D of Qualcomm Inc.

Sicheng Li, PhD Student

  • Neuromorphic computing
  • Heterogeneous system
  • SSD hardware implementation
 sil27 at pitt dot edu
Work Experience
  • Micron, SSD Engineer (2013)
Bonan Yan, PhD Student

  • Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Modeling
  • Micromagnetic EDA Tools
  • Spintronic Device Macro-modeling
  • Neuron Computing VLSI Tape-out
 boy12 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar

Linghao Song, PhD Student

  • Neuromorphic Computing
 lis75 at pitt dot edu

Xiaoxiao Liu, PhD Student

  • Heterogeneous system and neuromorphic computing
  • STTRAM dynamically configurable translation lookaside buffer
 xil116 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Work Experience
  • AMD, Sr. ASIC/Layout Design Engineer (2012)
  • Toshiba, Digital IC Design/Verification Engineer (2011)
  • SONY, Digital IC Design/Verification Engineer (2009)

Zheng Li, PhD Student

  • Emerging non-volatile memory
  • Neuron circuit design
 zhl85 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar

Wei Wen, PhD Student

  • Machine learning
  • Mobile computing
 wew57 at pitt dot edu

Google Scholar
Work Experience
  • Agricultural Bank of China, web developer, full-time (08/2013 - 07/2014)
  • Microsoft Research Asia, mobile sensing, intern (4/2013 - 6/2013)
  • Tencent, web developer, intern (07/2012 - 09/2012)

Jessica Egler, BS Student

 jle57 at pitt dot edu
Awards & Travel Grants
  • US Steel Academic Scholarship, 2013
Work Experience
  • Evolutionary Intelligence Lab Web Admisintrator, University of Pittsburgh (03/2013 - Present)
  • Marketing/Customer Service Intern, Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, PA (05/2013 - 01/2014)