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Research Interests

embedded systems, wireless sensing platforms (hardware and software)

low-power design and energy harvesting

design tools

Research

• Publications and Google Scholar statistics

• Overview

• Talks with slides

• Funding (as of Feb 2013):  NIST NSF, NIH
• Current Projects
  • Next Generation SCADA for Prevention and Mitigation of Water System Infrastructure Disaster (NIST: 4/09 - 3/13)
  • Coastal underwater sediments tracking (NSF: 9/09 - 8/13)
  • ECG Device for Long QT Syndrome Screening in Newborn (NIH: 7/12 - 6/13)
  • Infant Sleep Environment Monitoring System (SEMS) for SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) (NIH: 7/12 - 6/13)
• Previous Projects
  • DuraNode for structural health monitoring
  • Mini-FDPM non-invasive breast cancer detector
  • Energy harvesters: Ambimax, Everlast, DuraCap, EscaCap
  • B# (B-sharp) battery emulator and power profiling instrument
  • IMPACCT: Integrated Management of Power Aware Computation and Communication Technologies (DARPA: 2000-2004. PI: N. Bagherzadeh)
  • Chinook (1992-1998) hardware/software co-synthesis system
  • NSF CAREER Award (2005-2010)

About

Biography

Services

• General Chair, ISLPED 2013, (International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design), Beijing, China; and
• TPC Co-Chair, ISLPED 2012:
  Redondo Beach, July 30-August 1, 2012.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (2008-2010), Springer DAEM (2005-)
• Associate Chair for Computer Engineering, UCI (2009,2010,2011)
  ABET accreditation, Curriculum reform, Prelim scheduling, …
• Faculty Advisor for IEEE Student Chapter, UCI (2010, 2011)

Awards

• 2011: Embedded System Design Contest, Taiwan: Tier 2 (Top-3): flying gateway), Tier 3 (Top-7) augmented reality in home automation system

• 2010: First Place, IT-application; Tier 3 (top 10), MOD-application, Chunghwa Telecomm Design Contest

• 2009: Embedded System Design Contest, Taiwan: Tier 2 (top 5) Ultra Mouse, Tier 3 (top 10), Remote Terminator, and Tier 4 (top 15) WSN development kit

• 2007: DAC/ISSCC Design Contest Award: “HBS: a handheld breast cancer detector based on FDPM”

• 2006: Best Demo Award, IEEE SECON

• 2006: Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “AmbiMax: Efficient, Autonomous Energy Harvesting System for Multiple-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes”

• 2005: NSF CAREER Award, “Design Optimization and Quantitative Evaluation of Wireless Embedded Sensing Systems”

• 2005: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, UC Irvine

• 2005: Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “Everlast: Long-life, supercapacitor-operated Wireless Sensor Node,”

• 2004: Recognition of Service Award, ACM

• 2004, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “Eco: an Ultra-Compact Low-Power Wireless Sensor Node for Real-time Motion Monitoring”

• 2004, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “DuraNode: Wireless Sensor Node for Structural Health Monitoring”

• 2003, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “B#: A Battery Emulator and Power Profiling Instrument”

• 2002: SIGDA Technical Leadership Award, 39th DAC

• 2002: Best Paper Award, Asia South-Pacific Design Automation Conference

People

Current students

• Vahid Salmani (Ph.D., joined Sp’08; candidacy W’10, Ph.D. Sp’13 expected)
• Hyeoungho Bae (Ph.D., joined F’08; candidacy Sp’10, Ph.D. Sp’13 expected)
• Liang Pan (MS W’08; joined PhD (ICS) Sp’08; candidacy Dec.’11)
• Eun-bae Yoon (MS/PhD, joined ‘09; candidacy F’11, Ph.D. Su’13 expected)
• Don Nguyen (MS, joined F’10, MS Sp’13 expected)
• Ting-Chou Chien (Ph.D., candidacy F’11)
• Chengjia Huo (Ph.D., candidacy Sp’11; Ph.D.’13 expected)
• Tony Xiao (M.S., joined F’11)
• Ahmad Abiri (M.S., joined F’11, W’13 expected)
• Jun Luan (Ph.D., candidacy W’13)
• Seung-Jae Lee (Ph.D., post-prelim)

Former students – Ph.D. and Postdoc

• Sehwan Kim (joined Fall ‘08, candidacy Mar. ‘11, Ph.D. Dec. ‘11 awarded; postdoc) “Energy Harvesting and Power Optimization for Remote Sensing Systems”.
• Hadil Mustafa (Ph.D., candidacy Fall’11; Ph.D. Spr’12) “Energy-Efficient Algorithm and System Architecture for Distributed Real-time Detection of Rupture Events”
• Jinsik Kim (Ph.D. spring 2010; now at Western Digital) “Code Layout Optimization for Remote Progressive Code Update for Networked Embedded Systems”
• Chongjing Chen (M.S. ‘06, Ph.D. fall ‘09 awarded; now at Marvel) “Low Complexity and High Throughput Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks”
• Jiwon Hahn, (M.S.’03, candidacy’06, Ph.D. summer ‘08 awarded; now at Raytheon) “A Runtime System for Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems”
• Seung-Mok Yoo (Ph.D. Fall’07 awarded; now at ETRI) “Software Architecture for High Data Rate Wireless Body Sensor Applications”
• Chulsung Park, (M.S.; candidacy’05, Ph.D.Summer ‘07 awarded; formerly at Apple) “Challenges on the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Platform for Real-World Applications”
• Keun Sik No, (candidacy’04, Ph.D. Spring ‘07 awarded; now researcher at BLI) “HBS: a Handheld Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration”
• Dexin Li, (Ph.D.’06 awarded; now at nVidia) “System-Level Power Optimization and Management for Complex Embedded Systems”
• Jinfeng Liu, (Ph.D.’05 awarded; formerly Synopsys; now MultiDimension) “System-level Optimization and Validation for Power-Constrained Embedded Systems.”

Former students – M.S. (not including others above)

• Justin Jones (joined Fall’10, MS Summer ‘12)
• Ruyyan Ellaithy (MS Summer ‘12)
• Farhan Simjee (MS summer ‘06)
• Devyani Sharma (MS April ‘06)
• Jae Park (M.S.’05)
• Scott Lippert (M.S.’03, now at Facebook)
• Qiang Xie (ICS; candidacy)