- Best paper award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2001
- IBM Invention Achievement Award in 2003
- Best paper award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 2011
- Best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety in 2018
- Best paper award in MICRO 2021
- Best paper award in ASPDAC 2023
- Best paper award in MLCAD 2024
- Served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on CAD from 2006-2011
- Served as an associated editor for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
- Received the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2012
- Named an IEEE Fellow in 2016
- Received Texas A&M AgriLife Research Director’s Award in 2019
- Received Agricultural Blue Legacy Award in 2021
- Received Hans Fischer senior fellowship in 2023
- Starting from 2024, serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODAES
- Served as TPC co-chair of the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on ML CAD and now serves as the general co-chair of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on ML CAD
- Served as technical program committee members for DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, ISQED, ICCD, DATE, ISCAS, ASP-DAC, and ISLPED
- General chair for the 2012 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design
Research Experience
- Worked with IBM Microelectronics from January 2001 to June 2002
- Joined the electrical engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in 2002
Education
- B.S. in Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University (China), 1990
- M.S. in Physics, 1997
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001
Background
Research Interests: VLSI design automation, architecture optimization, hardware security, machine learning applications, and smart systems.