University of Virginia ECE Department - Robust Low Power VLSI Group

Robust Low Power VLSI Design

People

	Dr. Benton Calhoun Ben received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests include low power digital circuit design, sub-threshold digital circuits, SRAM design for end-of-the-roadmap silicon, variation tolerant circuit design methodologies, and low energy electronics for medical applications.
	Jiajing Wang Jiajing received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2000, and her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Fudan University, China, in 2003. From July 2003 to April 2005, she was an IC design and verification engineer in the Shanghai Design Center, Agere Systems, Inc. In fall 2005, she was a graduate student in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In Spring 2006, she transferred to the University of Virginia and started working in the RLP-VLSI group. She was also with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. as an intern in Summer 2007. Now she is working on her Ph.D. dissertation and expected to graduate in Fall 2009. Jiajing's website
	Joseph Ryan Joe received B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering & Electrical Engineering from Ohio State in 2006. He is working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as part of the RLP-VLSI group.
	Satyanand Nalam Satya received the B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2004. He has worked as a R&D Engineer at Synopsys from 2004-2006. He obtained an M.S degree in Computer Engineering in 2008, and is now working towards his PhD. Currently, he is interning at ARM. His research interests are in alternative bitcell designs for robust,low-power SRAMs, and SRAM optimization Satya's website
	Yousef Shakhsheer Yousef received the BS degree in EE/CPE from UVA in 2008. He is working towards a Ph.D. under Professor Calhoun in the RLP-VLSI group. He is current working on Panoptic Dynamic Voltage Scaling (PDVS) and the electronic design of an artificial whisker.
	Randy Mann After receiving his Masters degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science in 1982 from Notre Dame University, Randy joined the IBM technology development team in Essex Junction, VT. He worked for 25 years in the advanced silicon technology development group with IBM. He has 71 US patents and 38 technical papers in the field of semiconductor devices, microelectronic structures and processes. He is working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as part of the robust low power (RLP)-VLSI group. Randy's website
	Kyle Craig Kyle received his BS from the University of Virginia in Computer/Electrical Engineering in 2008. He is in his second year working towards his Ph.D. He is working with Ben Calhoun and John Lach on the PDVS project.
	Sudhanshu Khanna Sudhanshu received his B.Engg. degree in Electronics and Comm. Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi Univ in 2005. From Dec 2005 to June 2008, he worked as a Circuit Designer at Texas Instruments. In Fall 2008, he joined Univ of Virginia as a graduate student and Research Assistant. He is working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as part of the RLP-VLSI group. His research interests are in sub-threshold circuit design, low power memory design, and variation tolerant design methodologies.
	Taeyoung Kim Taeyoung received his B.S degree in Electronic Engineering from Konkuk University in 2005, and his M.S. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Korea University, Korea, in 2007. He is working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as part of the RLP-VLSI group. He is working with Ben Calhoun and John Lach
	Yanqing Zhang Yanqing received his B.S degree in Electronic Engineering from Fudan University, China in 2009. He is working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as part of the RLP-VLSI group.

Alumni

	Degree	First Job
Steven Jocke	MS, 2009	Lockheed Martin
Kyle Ringgenberg	MS, 2009	Lockheed Martin
Liang Di	MS, 2008	Intel
Satyanand Nalam	MS, 2008	Continuing for PhD