The OpenACC Accelerator Fortran/C/C++ Linux compilers from Portland Group Interntioal (PGI), which was dominated by Nvdia as part of the Nvidia CUDA Research Center, has been installed in MSLAB. This compiler will help boost the research works on GPU and parallel programming.

Prof. Sheldon Tan visited the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University at Seoul and presented invited talk. Prof. Tan also visited Prof. Naehyuck Chang's research LAB at SNU. Seoul National University, Embedded System Research Center (ESRC), Seoul, Korea, Architecture Level Thermal Modeling, Management for Multi-core and 3D Microprocessors, Dec. 10, 2013.

Prof. Naehyuck Chang of SNU visited UCR again. He gave an very interesting talk to the students in the EE213 course on the electronic energy systems.

The IRES 2013 post-program workshop was held in Bourns College of Engineering. Prof. Sheldon Tan and Prof. Albert Wang hosted the workshop. In the workshop, all the participating IRES students presented their research works and their social activities during the summer IRES program. The IRES program certificates were gave to the participating students at the...

Prof. Naehyuck Chang of SNU visited MSLAB and Winston Chung Global Energy Center at Bouns College of Engineering.

Five new Ph.D. students joined MSLAB in this Fall. Also Ph.D. student Zao Liu finished the intern job at Intel Corp. Welcome those new and old students. We also have one Post-Doc, Dr. Haibao Chen, who graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with Ph.D. on applied mathematics and Ms. Lingling Tan, who is a Ph.D. student...

Prof. Naehyuck Chang , who the professor of Computer Science and Engineering department at Seoul National University, visited the MSLAB and CE-CERT on Aug.12 an Aug.15, 2013. Prof. Chang came to UCR to explore the collaborative researches on the advanced energy storage (battery), smart building and smart solar power techniques. Prof. Chang is well-known power...

The 4th International Workshop on Emerging Circuits and Systems (IWECS13), was held successfully in The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China from Aug. 25-26, 2013. Dr. Tan is the organizer and international chair of the IWECS13. UESTC hosted this event. Prof. Hai Wang, who the associate professor at SJTU, is...

Dr. Valeriy Sukharev, who is the Technical Lead in the Calibre group of Mentor Graphics, visited MSLAB and EE department of UCR. Dr. Sukharev gave a department colloquium talk titled Beyond Blacks Equation: Full-Chip EM/SM Assessment in 3D IC Stack. Dr. Sukharev is industry expert on th'e chip long-term reliability issues such as electro-migration and...

MSLAB Alumni gathering in San Jose, CA with Prof. Tan. We have former Ph.D. student, Dr. Duo Li, Dr. Ning Mi, Dr. Ruijing Shen, Dr. Pu Liu and Dr. Xuexin Liu and Mr. Jian Cui (who is the MS student from MSLAB). We have wonderful dinner together.

Ph.D. student Xuexin Liu, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. His thesis is titled Ò Parallel and Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Nanometer VLSI SystemsÓ. Congratulation on Xuexin . Xuexin is the 11th Ph.D. graduated from MSLAB. Xuexin will join Synopsys's IC compiler group after the graduation. We wish Xuexin the best in his future...