EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, 2007

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, 1987

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 1983
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Florida International University, Assistant Professor, 2007 - current
  
  A tenure-track faculty position in department of electrical and computer engineering. Responsibilities include teaching, performing research and professional services. Courses offered:
  
          o EEE-4343 (undergraduate): Introduction to Digital Electronics (3 units), Summer-B 2009, Fall 2009
          o EEL-6167 (graduate): VLSI Design (3 units), Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009
          o EEL-4747C (undergraduate): Microcomputers - II (4 units), Fall 2007, Spring 2008

CONFERENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEES

• General co-chair, IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Home (WISH'09), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009

• Steering committee member, IEEE 41st Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST'09), Tullahoma, TN, March 15-17, 2009

• Member, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Undergraduate Program Assessment Committee (UPAC) computer engineering program, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, 2009

• Journal technical reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2009

• Journal technical reviewer, Integration the VLSI Journal, 2009

• Faculty search and screen committee member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International  University, 2009

• Publicity Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Physical and Social Computing (CPSC'09), Brisbane, Australia, July 7-10, 2009

• Workshop Chair, IEEE 6th International Conference on Embedded software and Systems (ICESS'09), Hangzhou, China, 2009

• Steering committee member, IEEE 40th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST'08), New Orleans, LA, March 17-18, 2008

• Chair, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Undergraduate Program Assessment Committee (UPAC) computer engineering program, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, 2007-2008

• Faculty search and screen committee member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International  University, 2008
   

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (TPC)

• Associate Editor, IEEE 42nd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST'10), Tyler, TX, March 7-9, 2010

• TPC member, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA'10), Singapore, December 15-17, 2010

• TPC member, International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS'10), Krakow, Poland, February 15-18, 2010

• TPC member, IEEE International Symposium on Network Evolution and Routing Innovation (Routing'09), Chengdu, China, December 12-14, 2009

• TPC member, IEEE 8th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON'09), Changsha, China, October 20-23, 2009

• TPC member, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'09), Beijing, China, August 24-26, 2009

• TPC member, The 4th International Symposium on Smart Home (SH'09), Toronto, Canada, July 13-16, 2009

• TPC member, Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED'09), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 15-16, 2009

• TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS'08), Chengdu, China, July 29-31, 2008

• TPC member, IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'08), Beijing, China, 2008

• TPC member, International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design (ISQED'07, '08 '09, '10) Conference, San Jose, California, USA, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

• TPC member, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'07, '08, '09) Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA (2007); Seattle, WA, USA (2008); Taipei, Taiwan (2009)
   

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC), project title: "NASA: H.264 based target tracking and visualization in space exploration", PI, (Grant: NASA NNG05GK00H), 2009-2010

• Augusta Systems, Inc (via West Virginia University), project title: “Sensor optimization technology - basic research, extended”, PI in FIU, (Award no: 07-592-FIU-2, ASI-NAVAI-SYSOP-WVU-2008A), 2009-2010

• National Science Foundation (NSF), program name: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF 07-569), project title: "REU Site: Numerical computing and optimization in multidisciplinary applications: methods and software", Senior Personnel, (Award no: CNS-0851733), 2009-2012

• Augusta Systems, Inc (via West Virginia University), project title: “Sensor optimization technology - basic research”, PI in FIU, (Award no: 07-592-FIU-2, ASI-NAVAI-SYSOP-WVU-2008A), 2008-2009

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS), program name: Scientific leadership awards for minority serving institutions, project title “Track2: Secure and trusted context aware adaptable sensor networks”, Co-PI, (Award no: 2008-ST-062-000012), 2008-2011

• Augusta Systems, Inc, project title: “Sensor optimization – basic research”, Co-PI (PI in FIU), (Award no: 07-592-FIU, ASI-NAVAI-SYSOP-WVU-2007A), 2007-2008

• Alion Science and Technology Corporation (contractor of Department of Defense), project title: “Development of intelligent control system for SWARM UAV”, Co-PI, (Award no: SUB1166497RB, WVU OSP# 05-354A), 2007

• West Virginia University Institute of Technology, faculty development fund awards, 2007

• NSF, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) awards (NSF 05-617), PI, 2006

• IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) awards (CADathlon), 2005
   

TUTORIALS, SPEAKERS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS

• Invited speaker, FIU IT2 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by NSF, entitled: "Target tracking via visual sensors in aviation systems", July 1, 2009

• Invited speaker, IEEE 8th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON'09), entitled: "Multicore processor cluster based sleep transistor sizing considering delay profile", Changsha, China, October 20-23, 2009 

• Speaker, IEEE 3rd Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC'08), entitled: "Integration and implementation of secured IP based surveillance networks", Yilan, Taiwan, December 9-12, 2008

• Invited speaker by Hua Wei Corporation, China, entitled: " Design considerations of SOPC-based H.264/AVC systems" on 1st International Workshop on Video Coding and Video Processing (VCVP'08), Shenzhen, China, November 26-28, 2008

• Chair, technical session, IEEE 5th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS'08), Chengdu, China, July 2008.

• Invited speaker, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), entitled: "Adaptive resource configuration in wireless sensor networks ", Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 2008.

• Chair, technical session, IEEE 40th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST'08), New Orleans, LA, Mar. 2008

• Invited speaker, St John’s University, entitled: “Interconnects and process induced variations in VLSI design”, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2007

• Invited speaker, St John’s University, entitled: “Statistical spectrum model order reduction”, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2007

• Invited speaker, St John’s University, entitled: “On-chip decoupling capacitor optimization in nanometer VLSI design", Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2007

• Invited speaker, Chang Gung University, entitled: “Interconnect in nanometer VLSI design", Taoyuan, Taiwan, Dec. 2007

• Invited speaker of undergraduate recruiting program in computer engineering for College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Nov. 2007

• Invited tutorial speaker and co-organizer for IEEE/CIE 7th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON’07), entitled: "Inductance extraction and compact modeling of inductively coupled interconnects in the presence of process variations", Guilin, China, Oct. 2007

• Chair, technical session, IEEE/CIE 7th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON’07), Guilin, China, Oct. 2007

• Speaker, IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'07), entitled: "Voltage drop reduction for on-chip power delivery considering leakage current variations”, Lake Tahoe, California, Oct. 2007

• Co-chair, technical session, Proc. 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design (ISQED), San Jose, California, March 2007

• Speaker, Proc. 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design (ISQED), entitled: "General block structure preserving reduced order modeling of linear dynamic circuits ", San Jose, California, March 2007

• Invited speaker, Tsinghua University, entitled: “Localized on-chip power delivery network optimization via sequence of linear programming”, Beijing, China, July 2006
   

THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

• Major advisor, Wei Zhao, Ph.D. dissertation committee

• Major advisor, Huang Huang, Ph.D. dissertation committee

• Major advisor, Guanglei Liu, Ph.D. dissertation committee

• Major advisor, Charles Castello, Ph.D. dissertation committee

• Committee member, Xinyu Jin, Ph.D. dissertation commitee

• Committee member, German Vargas, Ph.D. dissertation committee

• Committee member, Ting Li, Ph.D. (Computer Science) dissertation committee

• Committee member, Christian Rodriguez, M.S. thesis committee

• Committee member, Kiar Holland, M.S. thesis, "Design and fabrication of a nanotip array for a biological pathogen sensor", graduated, July 2009

• Committee member, Amit Bhanushali, M.S. thesis, "Waveguide microgripper for identification, sensing and manipulation", graduated, April 2009

• Committee member, Tao Liu, Ph.D. dissertation, "Periodic polymer photonic band gap structures for on-chip optical cavaties", graduated, December 2008

• Major advisor, Arjun Mullaguru, “Model order reduction using eigenmode analysis and rational transfer function fitting", M.S. thesis, graduated, July 2008

• Major advisor, Ramakoti Kalli, “Nonlinear modeling of radio frequency circuits to estimate third-order nonlinear distortions", M.S. thesis, graduated, July 2008

STUDENT SUMMER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
 

• Charles Castello, internship position, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (via ARC, FIU), Tennessee, Summer 2009

• Wei Zhao, student collaborative research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Summer 2009

• Huang Huang, Design Automation Summer School (DASS) awards sponsored by NSF/SRC, San Francisco, California, July 25-26, 2009

• Guanglei Liu, Design Automation Summer School (DASS) awards sponsored by NSF/SRC, San Francisco, California, July 25-26, 2009

• Kavita Mathur, internship position, Boston Scientific Corporation, Miami, Florida, Summer 2009

• Charles Castello, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) workshop, San Diego, California, July 2009

• Charles Castello, student collaborative research, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, Summer 2008
   

MEMBERSHIP AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

• New course proposed and approved by University Curriculum Committee, "System-on-a-chip and design methodologies" (course number: EEE-4410), Fall 2009

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007-current

• Graduate faculty (Dissertation Advisor Status), Florida International University, 2007-current

• Faculty summer research, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, Summer 2008

• Faculty advisor, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Honor Society, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, 2007

• Graduate faculty member, West Virginia University, 2007

• THCA (Taipei Hsien Computer Association), 2003-2004

• Association of Chain and Franchise Promotion, Taiwan (ACFP), 2003-2004

• Rotary Club of Fei Tsui (Rotary International District 3480), 2003-2004

• National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), Series-7, 24, 63 licensee, 1999-2002

• California Department of Real Estate (DRE), Realtor, 1999-2000
   

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• Vivavr Technology Inc, Vice President, 2003-2004
  
  A senior management position to oversee the operations and development of new products.
  
  Products include Virtual Reality (VR) 3D-animated digital contents in application to cartoons in theaters, as well as system integration of DLP and LCD type of industrial projectors.
   

• Western Digital Corporation, Sr. Principal Engineer, 2000-2002
  
  A lead project management position for the development of hard disks across servo/controller firmware, ASIC/PCB hardware, and design verification/test groups.
  
  Tasks include the architect of ST-10 based controller firmware under embedded controller Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), (a version of VxWorks) environment, generation of test patterns, development of error recovery algorithm, and ECC error correction schemes in order to achieve better production yield in hard disk manufacturing.
   

• Musica Technologies Co Ltd, Co-founder/General Manager, 1999-2000
  
  A business partner and lead developer to launch CD-based MP3 players using Intel 8051 microprocessor-based architecture and SONY laser servo lens pickup modules
   

• Emulex Corporation Principal Engineer, 1998-1999
  
  An engineering position to develop RISC StrongARM-based embedded controller firmware for fibre channel communications.
  
  Responsibilities include the implementation and enhancement of Loop Initialization Protocol (LIP) as well as to maintain fibre channel protocol integrity during and after system integration.
   

• Adaptec Inc, Senior Software Engineer, 1993-1998
  
  A software engineering position to design and develop a series of Adaptec products
  
  Projects include the implementation of device drivers for various SCSI host adapters, RAID, ATAPI/IDE and CD-ROM drives under different operating systems platforms (MS-DOS, Window 95/98/NT, Novell, AIX Unix).
  
  Responsibilities also include the development of application software, including RAID configuration manager, ASIC chip-level diagnostic and quality assurance software
   

• Toshiba America Info System Inc, Senior Design Engineer, 1988-1992

  A hardware circuitry and ASIC design engineer to develop Toshiba laptop and notebook computers and laser printers.
  
  Projects include the development of SCSI plug-and-play converter, multiple printer switching box, laser printer controller board and ASIC chip, specifically tailored for Toshiba foundries for Postscript and HPGL application
   

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST