Pai H. Chou

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
HSSoE and Center for Embedded Computer Systems
University of California, Irvine

3219 Engineering Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-2625 USA

phone (949) UCI-EBAY (824-3229), fax (949) 824-3203
email: phchou @ uci.edu

Research

Overview
Publications
Talks

Past courses

F'11: 129A/181A/189A, 221

S'11:  112L
W'11: 129B/181B, 113, 295
F'10: 129A/181A, 295

S'10: 112L, 113, 295
F'09 129A, 295

S'09 112L, 295
W'09 113, 295

S'08 112L, 295
W'08 12, 295
F'07 215, 295
(on sabbatical F06-S07)
Summer'06 295
S'06 112L, 295
W'06 12, 295
F '05 215, 295
S'05 112L, 295
W '05 129, 295
F '04 215
(below are "ECE"#)
S '04 132L
Fall '03 12, 235
S'03: 238, 295
F'02: 12, 235,fresh. sem
S'02: 132L
W'02: 145
F'01: 235
S'01: 132L
W'01: 145, 238
A '00: 235
S '00: 132L, 238
W '00: 298

Biography

Teaching (Winter 2012)

  • EECS 129B, EECS 189B, and CSE 181B: Senior Design Projects
  • EECS 22L:  (new course) Advanced Programming in C

Services

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

Research

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 Spring '08; candidacy Winter '10)
  • Hyeoungho Bae (Ph.D., joined Fall '08; candidacy Spring '10, Ph.D. Spr'12 expected)
  • Liang Pan (MS winter '08; joined PhD (ICS) spring '08; candidacy Dec.'11)
  • Eun-bae Yoon (MS/PhD, joined '09; post-prelim, candidacy Fall'11)
  • Justin Jones (MS, joined Fall '10, MS Spr'12 expected)
  • Don Nguyen (MS, joined Fall '10, MS Spr'12 expected)
  • Ting-Chou Chien (Ph.D., post-prelim, candidacy Fall'11)
  • Hadil Mustafa (Ph.D., post-prelim, candidacy Fall'11)
  • Chengjia Huo (Ph.D., candidacy, Ph.D. Spr'12 expected)
  • Esteban Rodriguez (sophomore)

Former students -- Ph.D.

  • Jinfeng Liu, (Ph.D.'05 awarded; formerly Synopsys; now MultiDimension) "System-level Optimization and Validation for Power-Constrained Embedded Systems."
  • Dexin Li, (Ph.D.'06 awarded; now at nVidia) "System-Level Power Optimization and Management for Complex Embedded Systems"
  • Keun Sik No (candidacy'04, Ph.D. Spring '07 awarded; now postdoc at BLI) "HBS: a Handheld Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration"
  • 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"
  • Seung-Mok Yoo (Ph.D. Fall'07 awarded; now at ETRI) "Software Architecture for High Data Rate Wireless Body Sensor Applications"
  • Jiwon Hahn (M.S.'03, candidacy'06, Ph.D. summer '08 awarded; now at Raytheon) "A Runtime System for Memory-Constrained 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"
  • Jinsik Kim (Ph.D. spring 2010; now at Western Digital) "Code Layout Optimization for Remote Progressive Code Update for Networked Embedded Systems"
  • Sehwan Kim (joined Fall '08, candidacy Mar. '11, Ph.D. Dec. '11 awarded; currently postdoc) "Energy Harvesting and Power Optimization for Remote Sensing Systems".

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

Personal interest

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