Award
2018 NSF Career Award Winner
Department
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
What is the impact of your research?
The project will lead to transformative 3D designs that will impact myriad applications, and will add value to high-performance computing, semiconductor, telecommunication, and electronic design automation (EDA) communities.
The project will bridge this gap by making valuable contributions to neuromorphic computing (NC) chip design that will significantly impact future NC systems. This project will also introduce innovative NC applications to the fields of communications and computing by applying NC to massive MIMO systems. Resulting technologies will fuel potentially disruptive capabilities in real-time data analysis, and will increase the functionality and performance of future systems by significantly decreasing the size and power budgets.
As a part of a detailed plan for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in engineering, research results obtained from the project will be disseminated through various educational programs and initiatives in the curricula as well as through professional seminars, outreach events, and collaborations with industrial partners. The results will also be disseminated broadly in leading journals and at international conferences.
What do you like most about the field of electrical and computer engineering?
Electrical & Electronic Engineering is a fascinating field, which could make your time and career as a challenging, enriching and rewarding experience.
What path did you take to get to this point in your career and research?
My years of intellectual training and research experience together with my industrial experience and hard work have equipped me with solid fundamental knowledge, abundant practice in technology innovations, and deep insights into applications. Stepping upon them, I am ready for bigger challenges. I am very interested in conducting interdisciplinary research between very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, high performance computing, and other emerging areas including security and communications.
When you are not researching, what do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
I enjoy listening to music, reading books, hiking, and playing with my three-year-old boy in my spare time.