Management Electrical

Yen-Kuan Wu

One Miramar St. #****** abqoxq@r.postjobfree.com

La Jolla, CA 92092 626-***-****

http://ieng6.ucsd.edu/~yew002/

RESEARCH INTEREST

Architecture Level On-Chip Thermal and Power Management

EDUCATION

University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA

Ph.D. program, Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 2009 - June 2014

Advisor: Prof. Tajana S. Rosing

Princeton University Princeton, NJ

Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, September 2008 - September 2009

Advisor: Niraj K. Jha

National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Control Engineering, September 2002 - June 2006

SELECTED PROJECTS

University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA

Dynamic Thermal Management for 3D Stacking Heterogeneous SoCs July 2010

- Exploring various memory architecture of 3D stacking SoCs

- Developing distributed thermal and power management algorithm for heterogeneous SoCs

University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA

Topography Aware 3D IC Design March 2010 June 2010

- Improving chip topography after chemical-mechanical polishing for 3D ICs with through-silicon-vias (TSV)

- Techniques including topography aware TSV placement algorithm and dummy fill insertion

Princeton University Princeton, NJ

Architectural Support for Voice Recognition Based Biometrics December 2008 July 2009

- Developed specialized instruction set with Xtensa (Tensilica) to improve voice authentication efficiency on embedded

system

- Total process time is improved by 7.1x with specialized instruction set

WORK EXPERIENCES

Broadcom Corp. San Diego, CA

Intern June 2011 September 2011

- Used Coverity to perform static analysis to Bluetooth core firmware

Taiwan Electronic Data Processing Corp. Taipei, Taiwan

Senior Program Analyst December 2007 July 2008

- Developed C code/shell script utilities for medical information protocol (DICOM) on Solaris based server

Taiwan Coast Guard Administration Hualien, Taiwan

Second Lieutenant July 2006 August 2007

- Served platoon leader in Cost Guard Administration for mandatory military service

Industrial Technology Research Institute Hsinchu, Taiwan

Intern Engineer May 2005 July 2006

- Designed and implemented a translation stage for biochip scanner, including motor control circuit, translation stage

mechanism

- Achievable highest resolution is 10 m

SELECTED COURSEWORK

Introduction to Embedded Systems University of California, San Diego

- Read performance counter of ARM11 and implement power management governor in Linux kernel module

Computer Architecture Princeton University

- Implement JPEG 2000 decoder in CUDA

Digital Signal Processing National Chiao Tung University

- Implement active noise cancellation with Texas Instruments DSP development module

PUBLICATION

Y.-K. Wu, S. Sharifi, and T. S. Rosing, ``Distributed Thermal Management for Embedded Heterogeneous MPSoCs with

Dedicated Hardware Accelerators, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2011.

S. Sharifi, Y.-K. Wu and T. S. Rosing, Temperature-Aware Scheduling for Embedded Heterogeneous MPSoCs with Special

Purpose IP Cores, IEEE International Workshop on Energy and Thermal Management for Embedded Computing, 2011.

D. H. Kim, Y.-K. Wu, R. O. Topaloglu and S. K. Lim, Enabling 3D Integration through Optimal Topography, IEEE

International Workshop on DFM&Y, 2010 (poster session).

SELECTED SKILLS

7 years C/C++ programming

Python and shell script language development

Assembly coding with micro-controllers

FPGA design with VHDL

Experienced in Calibre, SoC Encounter and various EDA design tools

CPLEX linear programming code development

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Teaching Assistantship, University of California, San Diego September 2009 December 2009

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

MAE 5: Quantitative Computer Skills

SERVICES

Publicity Chair, 4th IEEE International Workshop on DFM&Y 2010

Chief of Public Relations, Career Fair of National Chiao Tung University 2006

Chief Financial Officer, the Student Association of Department of Electrical and Control Eng. 2005

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