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Dr. Sachin Sachdeva and Dr. Jincong Lu graduated from VSCLAB. Congratulations on them. Earning a Ph.D. takes years of dedication, persistence, and hard work, and both Sachin and Jincong have grown tremendously as researchers while making valuable contributions to our group and community. Sachin will join Intel Corporation and Jincong Lu will join Samsung Electronics...

Graduate student Haotian Lu will join Intel Corporation as a summer intern, where he will work on using machine learning (ML) to optimize physical design. Shanmukh Racha will intern at the Beaver Works Summer Institute at MIT. Congratulations to both Haotian and Shanmukh on these exciting opportunities!

Dr. Sheldon Tan was honored as the IEEE Fellow from CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation of IEEE on 2025 Design Automation Conference, the primary EDA conference in San Francisco, June 24, 2025.

The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) (https://aaia-ai.org), which is formed in 2023, is an academic, non-profit and non-governmental organization voluntarily formed 2053 academicians worldwide. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) aims to build a broad AI industry, bringing together scientists and entrepreneurs related to AI applications to develop AI industries, including the AI Ocean, AI...

Ph.D. student Subed Lamichhane successfully passed his PhD defense today. His thesis is titled "Advances in ML-driven design automation for VLSI reliability analysis". Suned made many significant contributions to the VLSI reliability analysis. He also developped the EMspice 2.1 to consider the thermal impacts on the electromigration and IR drop analysis. Subed will join Analog...

Subed just won Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (DCFA) for his last year in PhD student at UCR. It will cover two quarter stipends (about $10K) in 2025. This is a very competitive aware for senior Ph.D. students in UCR graduate division. Congratulations on Subed.

VSCLAB is excited to share that we proposed a new low-power computing paradigm called Hybrid Temporal Computing (HTC). In HTC, data for multiplication are encoded in a hybrid format combining temporal data and traditional bitstream data. The temporal data concept is inspired by recently proposed temporal computing (or race logic), where information is encoded as...

VSCLAB introduced the first publicly available thermal map dataset from commercial CPU/GPU/TPU multi-core and many-core processors! These datasets were gathered using our advanced thermal imaging system at VSCLAB, UC Riverside and include both raw thermal maps and workload-dependent utilization metrics (e.g., Intel PCM, AMD uProf 4.0). This unique combination enables real-time full-chip thermal modeling using...

Ph.D. student Mohammadamir (Amir) Kavousi successfully defended their thesis, titled " Physics-Based Modeling of Coupled Electromigration and Thermomigration in Multi-Segment Interconnects considering Joule Heating Effects". Best wishes for his future endeavors!

Dr. Sheldon Tan was elevated to rank of IEEE Fellow for his contribution to reliability and thermal modeling and analysis of integrated circuits

Ph.D. students Maliha Tasnim and Yibo Liu successfully defensed their thesis and graduated from VSCLAB during the summer 2024. Best wishes for their future endeavor!

Ph.D. student Lamichhane will work for AMD for reliability related project during the summer 2024. He will join AMD for a full time job after graduation. Ph.D. student Jincong Lu will work for NXP semiconductor for reliability related project for the summer 2024. . Ph.D. Sachin Sachdeva worked for Intel in summer 2024. Congratulation on...

This work, which mainly developed by PhD student Yibo Liu and Shuyuan Yu, developed a new stochastic computing framework for performing hardware based division operation for fixed point numbers for the first time. They applied so-called counting-based stochastic computing technique to mitigate the existing issues of SC based divider such as coherent requirements of bit...

Dr. Sheldon Tan has just been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation's CISE CCF Core Small program (CCF-2305437). The project, titled "SHF:Small: Learning-based Fast Analysis and Fixing for Electromigration Damage," is funded with $500,000 and spans from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2026. This significant grant will provide essential support for...

This year, we have three accepted ICCAD 2023 papers, leaded by two Ph.D. students Jincong Lu and Subed Lamichhane and Post-Doc. Dr. Liang Chen. The three papers listed below. ICCAD is one of two top conferences in the design automation (see CSrankings.com). The first paper [1] proposed a new machine learning based approach to estimation...

Three Ph.D. students received the industry offers for the summer 2023

Three Ph.D. students, Wentian Jin, Jinwei Zhang and Shuyuan Yu graduated from VSCLAB.

Dr. Sheldon Tan delivered CEDA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Presentation, “Data-driven Deep Learning for Full-Chip Thermal and Power Estimation for Commercial Multi-core Systems”. The event was hosted by Prof. Helen Li on Feb. 6, 2023. The presentation can be viewed at here as UCR students.

Dr. Liang Chen joined Shanghai University, Shanghai China, in January 2023 as an Associate Professor. Congratulation on him. Dr. Liang was a post-doc at VSCLAB. He joined VSCLAB in 2018 as a visiting Ph.D. student and was co-supervised by Dr. Sheldon Tan for his Ph.D. study at UCR. He graduated in 2020 from SJTU and...

Our recent work, led by Ph.D. student, Han Zhou, to optimize the on-chip power grid networks considering the electromigration effects using machine learning based approach has been accepted by TCAD. This work represents our new approach to addressing the challenging EM failure and aging issues in the nanometer VLSI chip design. Our study shows that...