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Current Graduate Students:

Ningde Xie (PhD, 2006~) Wei Xu (PhD, 2006~)
Qi Wu (PhD, 2008~) Guiqiang Dong (PhD, 2008~)
Yangyang Pan (PhD, 2008~) Vaibhav Raj Govil (MS/PhD, 2008~)
Yiran Li (PhD, 2009~) Peter Sumberac (MS/PhD, 2009~)
Kalyana Sundaram Venkataraman (PhD, 2009~)

Awards/Honors Received by Students:

  1. Wei Xu was selected to present his doctoral research at the premier ACM/SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC 2009.

  2. Ningde Xie won the 2009 Arjun Saxena Topper Award. This award is given each year to the top doctoral level microelectronics student at RPI.

  3. Yang Liu (graduated 2008) was selected to present his doctoral research at the premier ACM/SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC 2008.

  4. Fei Sun (graduated 2007) received the 2007 Allen B. DuMont prize, established by the Allen B. DuMont Foundation at RPI and awarded to the graduate student who demonstrates high scholastic ability and makes substantial contributions to his/her field.

  5. Fei Sun won the Low Power Design Contest Award at the 2005 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).

  6. Hao Zhong (graduated 2006) won the 2004 Arjun Saxena Topper Award. This award is given each year to the top doctoral level microelectronics student at RPI.

Former Doctoral Students:

  1. Shu Li (Jan. 2007~May 2009) Thesis title: VLSI circuit and architecture design of high-capacity digital memory system. First employment: Marvell Semiconductor, CA.

  2. Yang Liu (Sept. 2005~Nov. 2008) Thesis title: Low-Power Circuit and System Design in Nanoelectronics Regime. First employment: Juniper Networks, CA.

  3. Sizhong Chen (Sept. 2003~May 2007) Thesis title: Signal Detection Algorithm Design and VLSI Implementation for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication Systems. First employment: Qualcomm, CA.

  4. Fei Sun (Sept. 2003~May 2007) Thesis title: Trellis Detector/Decoder VLSI Architectures for Data Communication and Storage Systems. First employment: Marvell Semiconductor, CA.

  5. Hao Zhong (Jan. 2003~July 2006) Thesis title: VLSI Architectures of LDPC Based Signal Detection and Coding System for Magnetic Recording Channel. First employment: LSI Corporation, CA.

Former Visitors:

  1. Hongbin Sun, Oct. 2007~Oct. 2008, from Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Former Master Students:

  1. Jibang Liu (2009)
  2. Rakesh Anigu (2008) first employment: Qualcomm, NC
  3. Rajat Dani (2007) first employment: Tensilica, CA
  4. Lu Feng (2007)
  5. Karthik Kuchimanchi (2006)
  6. Simranpreet Reen (2004) first employment: TI, TX
  7. Kunhyuk Kang (2003)
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