Current Members

WISCAD Graduates : PhD

Robert Viramontes, PhD’25

Maedeh Hemmat, PhD’21

Wei Zeng, PhD’21

Boyu Zhang, PhD’19

Jonathon Magaña, PhD’19

Daohang Shi, PhD’16

Daniel Seemuth, PhD’16

Min Li, PhD’14

Hamid Shojaei, PhD’12

Tai-Hsuan Wu, PhD’11

Lin Xie, PhD’10

WISCAD Graduates : MS

Edward Tashjian, Fall 2015, DAC Publication: “Using control signals to improve reverse engineering words in a bit-level circuit”, ARM

Sakshi Gupta, Spring 2015, Intel

Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Spring 2014, GLSVLSI Publication: “Online and operand-aware detection of failures by utilizing false alarm vectors”, PhD at Georgia Tech

Shirley Lei, Fall 2013, Project: “Routability-driven standard-cell design for 3D monolithic ICs”

Yao Ding, Fall 2013, Project: “Routability-driven partitioning in 3D monolithic ICs”

Ranjan Banerjee, MS student, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013, Topic: “Routing congestion”, Oracle

Vandita Gupta, MS student, Summar and Fall 2012, Topic: “Secure IC placement”, Intel

Ziliang Guo, Fall 2011, Topic: “Parallel global routing”

Meng Shi, 2010, Marvell

Shreyas Parnerkas, 2010, Project: “False-path aware static timing analysis”, AMD

Anuj Kumar, 2009, ICCD Publication/Thesis: “SynECO: Technology remapping with incremental constrained placement and exact timing estimation”, Cisco, and later senior R&D engineer at Synopsys

Jungseob Lee, 2007, ISCAS Publication/Thesis: “Design of a robust low-leakage SRAM under process variations”, PhD student at UW-Madison, Intel

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 NSF REU, Publication: “Use of control signals for reverse-engineering gate-level netlists”, news article

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”