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Current Graduate Students:

Ningde Xie (PhD, 2006~) Wei Xu (PhD, 2006~)
Shu Li (PhD, 2007~) Jibang Liu (PhD, 2007~)
Qi Wu (PhD, 2008~) Guiqiang Dong (PhD, 2008~)
Yangyang Pan (PhD, 2008~) Vaibhav Raj Govil (Master, 2008~)

Awards/Honors Received by Students:

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

  2. 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.

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

  4. 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. Yang Liu (Graduated Nov. 2008) Thesis title: Low-Power Circuit and System Design in Nanoelectronics Regime. Currently with Juniper Networks, CA.

  2. Sizhong Chen (Graduated May 2007) Thesis title: Signal Detection Algorithm Design and VLSI Implementation for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication Systems. Currently with Qualcomm, CA.

  3. Fei Sun (Graduated May 2007) Thesis title: Trellis Detector/Decoder VLSI Architectures for Data Communication and Storage Systems. Currently with Marvell Semiconductor, CA.

  4. Hao Zhong (Graduated July 2006) Thesis title: VLSI Architectures of LDPC Based Signal Detection and Coding System for Magnetic Recording Channel. Curretly with LSI Corporation, CA.

Former Visitors:

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

Former Master Students:

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