Design Engineer

Weiwei Chen

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Tel: 949-***-****

University of California, Irvine Email: ******.****@***.***

Irvine, CA, 92697-2625 Homepage: http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~weiweic

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer System and Software Sept. 2007 2013 (expected)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of California, Irvine.

Committee: Prof. Rainer DOmer (advisor), Prof. Daniel Gajski, Prof. Pai Chou

Master of Science, Computer Engineering Sept. 2004Mar. 2007

School of Microelectronics

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering Sept. 2000Jun. 2004

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Teaching Reform Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

International Exchange Student Aug. 2003 Dec. 2003

Dean s List & Semester Honor

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Embedded hardware and software systems, Parallel simulation, System-level design and

methodologies, Specification and

Modeling Languages.RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of California, Irvine

Graduate Student Researcher, Department of EECSSept. 2007Present

Multi-core parallel simulation for System-Level Description Languages.

Recoding for parallel system-level embedded application models.

ConcurrenC: A Novel Model of Computation for Effective System -level Abstraction of C-

based SLDLs.

System Modeling of real-world embedded applications: a H.264 video Decoder, a JPEG

image encoder, a video edge

detector, a DES cipher chip.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Graduate Research Assistant, School of Microelectronics Dec. 2004 Jan. 2007

Electronic Design Automation Research Group

Research on symbolic analog circuit simulation using the graph reduction approach.

Computer Architecture Research Group

Research on simulation for heterogeneous multiprocessor system based on the SimpleScalar

toolset.

SOC Research Lab

Optimized the MP3 decoder algorithm on the ARM9 platform. Embedded operating system

development based on

PalOS on the ARM9 platform, including modules communication protocol design, OS task

scheduling extension,

device driver development of DMA and SPI, etc.

DSP Research Lab

Designed a reconfigurable cache controller for a VLIW DSP chip in Verilog; Design an

external memory interface

module for a VLIW DSP chip in Verilog.

Weiwei Chen Curriculum Vitae Spring 2012 Page 1 of 4

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Articles (peer reviewed)

C1. Weiwei Chen, Xu Han, Rainer DOmer, Out-of-order Parallel Simulation for ESL design,

in Proceedings of the

Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, 2012 (Regular Presentation).

C2. Weiwei Chen, Rainer DOmer, An Optimizing Compiler for Out-of-Order Parallel ESL

Simulation Exploiting

Instance Isolation, in Proceedings of the 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation

Conference (ASP-DAC),

2012.

C3. Rainer DOmer, Weiwei Chen, Xu Han, Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Transaction

Level Models, in

Proceedings of the 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC),

2012.

C4. Rainer DOmer, Weiwei Chen, Xu Han, Andreas Gerstlauer, Multi-Core Parallel

Simulation of System -Level

Description Languages, in Proceedings of 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation

Conference (ASP -

DAC), Yokohama, Japan, January 2011.

C5. Weiwei Chen, Xu Han, Rainer DOmer, ESL Design and Multi-Core Validation using the

System-on-Chip

Environment, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International High Level Design Validation

and Test Workshop

(HLDVT), Anaheim, CA, USA, June 2010.

C6. Weiwei Chen, Rainer DOmer, " A Fast Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Periodi c

ConcurrenC Models", in

Proceedings of 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP -DAC),

Taipei, Taiwan, January

2010.

C7. Weiwei Chen, Rainer DOmer, "ConcurrenC: A new approach towards effective abstraction

of C -based SLDLs", in

Proceedings of the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS), Langenargen, Germany,

September 2009.

C8. Weiwei Chen, Guoyong Shi, Implementation of a Symbolic Circuit Simulator for

Topological Network Analysis,

in Proceedings of the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuit and System (APCCAS),

Singapore, December 2006.

C9. Guoyong Shi, Weiwei Chen, C.-J. Richard Shi, A Graph Reduction Approach to Symbolic

Circuit Analysis, in

Proceedings of the 12th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP -DAC),

Yokohama, Japan,

January 2007.

C10. Rongrong Zhong, Yongxin Zhu, Weiwei Chen, Mingliang Lin, Weng Fai Wong, An Inter-

core Communication

Enabled Multi-core Simulator Based on SimpleScalar, in Proceedings of the 21st

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of California, Irvine

Pedagogical Fellow 2012~2013 academic year

Will lead a one-and-half-day long professional development program for the new

graduates in School of

Engineering for their future teaching assistant career in Fall 2012. The program will

include 8~9 workshops

about TA responsibilities, learning styles, problem solving, grading, leading discussion

sessions, active learning,

and so on.

Will serve as the Pedagogical Fellow for School of Engineering to help graduate

teaching assistants with

teaching skill development in 2012~2013 academic year.

Teaching Assistant

Weiwei Chen Curriculum Vitae Spring 2012 Page 2 of 4

ADV C Programming (EECS22) Fall quarter, 2011

Led 2-hour lab sections (with 1-hour discussions on homework) once every week. Design ed

learning activities

for the lab discussions. Designed five homework assignments, prepared the solutions and

graded the program

submissions. Managed the course message board and give feedbacks to the question posts.

Prepare d the course

accreditation (ABET) materials.

COMP METHODS IN ECE (EECS10) Fall quarter, 2008, 2009, 2010

Led discussion sections and lab sections for C programming twice every week respectively.

Prepa red for the

homework assignment and grade the program once or twice each quarter.

Utility Pedagogical Fellow for TAPDP Fall quarter, 2011

Helped to lead one of the micro-teaching groups in 2011 Teaching Assistant Professional

Development Program

(TAPDP) where the future TAs practice applying advanced pedagogical skills.

Substitute Lecturer

ADV SYSTEM-SOFTWARE (EECS211) Winter quarter, 2011

Gave two 50-mins lectures for memory management of the computer systems for graduate

students.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Lecturer

FPGA Training Class. Jun.2006

Gave lecture to a half-day workshop for embedded system design by using the Embedded

Development Kit of

Xilinx FPGA. Designed the lab experiments.

Teaching Assistant

Digital Integrated Circuit Design Fall semester, 2006

Lab Preparation and Guidance on Cadence Virtuoso, Course Management.

Embedded System Design Summer, 2005

rd

The 3 Summer Elite Internship Program, School of Microelectronics, SJTU

Mentored the junior and senior college students in this 4 -week summer internship program

for embedded

system design on a wireless Router (Linksys s WRT54G). Lab Preparation and Guidance.

Design Automation for Integrated Circuit Spring Semester, 2005

Lab experiment preparation for digital circuit design by using Cadence Virtuoso tool Exam

and homework

Future Road College, Shanghai, China

Instructor (Part-time) July. 2006July. 2007

Lectured in Calculus, Linear Algebra and Theory of Probability to high school students

who have great

interests in Mathematics.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

University of California, Irvine

Advanced Pedagogy Seminar Spring quarter, 2012

Learned about the pedagogy in higher education, teaching and learning styles, out-come

driven course design.

Constructed a syllabus for a future course. Build and participate the learning community

with other graduate students

who consider a career in academia.

The Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education workshop Fall quarter,

2011

Learned about the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, a set of

educational practices

distilled from over fifty years of education research. Explored these principles through

discussion and facilitator

modeling, and figured out opportunities to practice implementing them into practice.

Effective Responses to Student Writing workshop Fall quarter, 2011

Learned tips and guidelines for maximizing the impact of the responses to written

assignments, and strategies for

effective responses to student work.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA

Software Develop Engineer (Summer Internship) Jun.2011Sept.2011

Developed Metro-style application with the WinCore Security&Identity Public Key

Infrastructure team.

IBM Global Engineering Solutions, Shanghai, China.

Weiwei Chen Curriculum Vitae Spring 2012 Page 3 of 4

R&D Engineer (Internship) Jan. 2007Apr. 2007

Advanced application research on CELL Broadband Engine. Research for Parallel High -

performance Sorting

Algorithm on CBE Platform.

IBM China System & Technology Lab (CSTL), Shanghai, China.

Software Engineer (Internship) Jun. 2006Dec. 2006

Research and development of System Software for Storage Devices (C++ & Java). Developed

a simulator for

DMTF CIM and WBEM standards (www.dmtf.org) for Storage Devices based on the open-source

project

OpenPegasus (www.openpegasus.org).

HONORS & AWARDS

Pedagogical Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2012 2013.

Nominated for 2012 the most promising future faculty award from University of

California, Irvine.

Young Student Support Award (student mentor) from Design Automation Conference (DAC)

2010, Anaheim, CA.

Student Travel Grant from Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)

2010, Taipei, Taiwan.

Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship (3 out of 100+), Henry Samueli School of Engineering,

University of California,

Irvine, CA, 2007.

Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, School of Microelectronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong

University, 2006.

National Scholarship for Academic Excellence, China, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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