Outreach

Our outreach has primarily been in the form of involving undergraduate students in research. Some of our undergraduate researchers were supported as NSF REU, published in top conferences as first author, and ultimately obtained their PhD degrees at very top institutions.

Past Undergraduate Researchers at WISCAD :

Jackson Melchert, Summer and Fall 2017, and Spring 2018 REU, Publication: “Local net modeling with machine learning”, TVLSI’17, GLSVLSI’18, PhD student at Stanford

David Yu, Summer and Fall 2016 REU, Project: “Synthesis with majority logic”

Edward Tashjian, Fall 2013 REU, Publication: “Use of control signals for reverse-engineering gate-level netlists”

Kenneth Siu, Fall 2013 REU, Project: “Hacking design information from an encrypted netlist at the placement level”

Hao Liang, BS student, Fall 2012, Topic: “Evaluation of a software package using Unix shell scripting and Perl programming”

Ye Hu, Spring and Summer REU 2011, Project: “Routability-driven Placement”, Qualcomm

Ammar Al Marzouqi, Summer 2011, Project: “Routing in Structured ASIC”

Michael Anderson, Spring and Summer REU 2009, Project/Publication: “Statistical timing analysis”, “Parallel timing optimization”, PhD student at Berkeley

Ahmed Fikri, Spring 2011, Project: “Physically Unclonable Functions for IC security”

Zhilong Cong, Fall 2010, Project: “Physically Unclonable Functions for IC security”