News/Events

• CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program is On for Winter 2020.

• Dr. Taskin is delivering the keynote "On-Chip Wireless Interconnect Paradigm" at 12th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCARC) 2019, held in conjuction with MICRO 2019 in Columbus Ohio.

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• Mike Lui is interning at Facebook Fall 2019.

• Scott Lerner is interning at Intel Summer/Fall 2019.

• Vasil is now Dr. Vasil Pano, Summer 2019.

• Leo is now Dr. Leo Filippini, Spring 2019.

• Our resonant clock team RotaSyn participated in National Science Foundation I-Corps Short Course at Drexel University organized by Upstate NY I-Corps Node, March 2019.

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• CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program is On for Winter 2019.

• Scott Lerner received the Koerner Family Award in 2019.

• Dr. Taskin is the General Chair for ACM GLSVLSI 2019 in Tysons Corner, VA.

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• Dr. Taskin elected the chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's (CASS) Technical Committee on VLSI Systems and Applications (CAS VSA-TC), 2018-2020.

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• Vasil Pano received the Nihat Bilgutay Award in 2018.

• Mike Lui received the Koerner Family Award in 2018.

• Karthik Sangaiah, Scott Lerner, and Ragh Kuttappa receive the Weggel Family Fellowship in 2018.

• Scott Lerner, Vasil Pano and Baris Taskin won the first place at the 10th Annual Drexel IEEE Graduate Symposium poster competition for their work on "NoC Router Lifetime Improvement Using Per-Port Router Utilization", accepted at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

• Completed CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program for Winter 2018.

• Dr. Taskin is the TPC co-chair for ACM GLSVLSI 2018 in Chicago, IL.

• Granted United States Patent No. 9,773,079, ``Methods and computer-readable media for synthesizing a multi-corner mesh-based clock distribution network for multi-voltage domain and clock meshes and integrated circuits, Inventors: Taskin and Sitik, 2017

• Granted United States Patent No. 9,484,896, ``Resonant Frequency Divider Design Methodology for Dynamic Frequency Scaling, Inventors: Taskin and Teng, 2017

• Scott Lerner, Vasil Pano, and Leo Filippini receive ECE awards in 2017.

• Mike Lui and Kartik Sangaiah will give a tutorial on "Sigil2 and SynchroTrace: Flexible Workload Profiling and Fast Memory-NoC Simulation" @ International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2016.

• Can Sitik received Honorable mention for the Outstanding Dissertation Award at Drexel College of Engineering graduation in 2016.

• Scott received the Frank & Agnes Seaman fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2016.

• Leo received the Carleone fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2016.

• Vasil Pano and Scott Lerner recipients of the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Program award for the Design Automation Conference in Austin, TX in 2016.

• Junghoon Oh, a PhD student from JAIST, Japan, joins the lab as a visiting researcher for 2016.

• IEEE CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program for Spring 2016.

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• The first IEEE CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium talk for Spring 2016.

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• IEEE CEDA sponsored Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program for Winter 2016.

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• Prof. Taskin is the General Chair for IEEE/ACM System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) Workshop 2016 [1]

• Dr. Taskin received the Outstanding Research award from the Drexel ECE Department in 2015.

• Dr. Taskin started and will serve as the treasurer of the IEEE Central Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Joint Sections Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Chapter.

• Tutorial delivered at ICCD 2015: "Sigil and SynchroTrace: Communication-Aware Workload Profiling and Memory- NoC Simulation" @ IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015, New York City, NY (with Prof. Mark Hempstead, Tufts University, Stephan Diestelhorst, ARM Research).

• Drexel Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium program for Fall, Winter and Spring 2015.

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• Two familiar faces on the cover of the 2014-15 report from the Drexel Fellowship Office; Paco as a mentor (GRFP 2014) and Scott for having received the NDSEG and GRFP this year in 2015. Drexel Fellowship Office 2014-2015 Report

• Mike Lui will give a tutorial on "Communication-Aware Workload Profiling and Memory-NoC Simulation with Sigil and SynchroTrace" @ International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2015.

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• Dr. Taskin and Dr. Salman (Stony Brook University) gave a tutorial on "Low Voltage Power Delivery and Clocking in Nanoscale Technologies: Basics to Recent Advances" @ IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal [2].

• Renamed "Drexel VLSI Lab" to "Drexel VLSI and Architecture Lab" to more accurately reflect the current Research portfolio.

• Scott Lerner received 52nd DAC Richard Newton Young Fellowship from Design Automation Conference in 2015.

• Scott Lerner received the DoD NSDEG fellowship (declined) in 2015.

• Scott Lerner received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015. Drexel Fellowship Office news

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• Giordano Salvador (REU 2013, REU 2014, also independent research, UPenn) received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015, will attend UIUC.

• Michael Miller (REU 2013, Goshen College) received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2015, will attend CMU.

• Can Sitik and Karthik Sangaiah received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2015.

• Prof. Taskin is the TPC chair for IEEE/ACM System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP) Workshop 2015 [3]

• Scott Lerner received the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Program travel grant from Design Automation Conference in 2014.

• Karthik Sangaiah received the NSF GRFP Fellowship in 2014. Drexel Fellowship Office news

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• Can Sitik received the Leroy L. Rosser fellowship from Drexel University in 2014.

• Karthik Sangaiah received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2014.

• Best paper nomination for Can Sitik at the ACM GLSVLSI 2013 for the paper entitled "Skew-Bounded Low Swing Clock Tree Optimization".

• Can Sitik received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2013.

• Prof. Taskin is selected the "Young Electrical Engineer of the Year 2013" by the IEEE Philadelphia Section.

• Prof. Taskin organized and presented a tutorial on "Resonant Clocking" with Prof. Matthew Guthaus of UCSC and Drexel VLSI Lab Alumni Dr. Vinayak Honkote of Intel at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2012 in San Jose, CA. program link

• Drexel student newspaper article on hybrid wireless NoC project Drexel Triangle link
• News release from Drexel about our hybrid wireless NoC project August 2012 DrexelNOW link

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• Dr. Taskin received the ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award in 2012.

• Ying Teng received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2012.

• See our article titled "What is Wireless Interconnect?" in the February 2012 edition of the ACM SIGDA newsletter to 3000+ recipients.

• Ying Teng received the N. Bilgutay fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2011.

• Here is the report for the Drexel Office of International Programs travel award for Dr. Taskin to ISCAS'11. [4]

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• Ying Teng's first journal paper "Look-up Table Based Low Power Rotary Traveling Wave Design Considering the Skin Effect" is featured on the cover of the Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE) in December 2010. Check out the Publications page for details.

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• Ankit More received the George Hill, Jr. fellowship from Drexel University in 2010.

• Jianchao Lu and Ying Teng presented their work in University Booth, at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA, in 2010.

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• Sharat Chandra recipient of the Young Student Support Program Award for the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA in 2010:

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• The NSF-funded REU Site opportunity on "Computing for Power and Energy" directed by Dr. Taskin is starting in Summer 2010: REU Site on Computing for Power and Energy: The Old, The New and The Renewable. This site will run for the next three years.

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• Vinayak received the first N. Bilgutay fellowship from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2010.

• Jianchao Lu and Vinayak Honkote presented their work in University Booth and Ph.D. Forum, respectively, at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, CA, in 2009.

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• Jianchao Lu and Vinayak Honkote participated in the SIGDA CADAthlon at ICCAD 2008 in San Jose, CA.

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• Accepting the A. Richard Newton Award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2007.

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• Drexel Senior Design team, also winners of the CE award, presented at the University Booth at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in San Diego, CA, in 2007.

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