Ph.D. student, Shaoyi Peng successfully defensed her thesis titled "Modeling and Simulation methods for VLSI Interconnect Reliability Focusing on TDDB". Shaoyi joined the VSCLAB in 2016 and he worked on the VLSI reliability modeling and GPU based parallel simulation.  Shaoyi  will join the Cerebras System, an AI chip startup as a senior engineer after graduation. We wish him the best for her future endeavors.