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Soyeon Park (UCSD)

Yanjing Li (Stanford)

Yao Li (UCLA)

Mahmood Khayatzadeh (UMich)

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Omid Assare (UCSD)

Abbas Banaiyan (UCI)

Hyungmin Cho (Stanford)

Bryan Donyanavard (UCI)

Henry Duwei (UIUC)

Salma Elmalaki (UCLA)

Ryan Gabrys (UCLA)

Mark Gottscho (UCLA)

Manish Gupta (UCSD)

Ruining He (UCSD)

Roger Chen-Ying Hsieh (UCI)

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Stevenson Jian (UIUC)

Xun Jiao (UCSD)

Liangzhen Lai (UCLA)

Atieh Lotfi (UCSD)

Alan Leung (UCSD)

Tiago Rogério Mück (UCI)

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Frederic Sala (UCLA)

Majid Namaki Shoushtari (UCI)

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Thomas Weng (UCSD)

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Yiqun Zhang (UMich)

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Eric Y. Chang (Stanford)

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Charwak Apte (MS, UCLA)

Yashar Asgarieh (UCSD)

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Rahul Balani (PhD, UCLA)

Luis Bathen (PhD, UCI)

Arup Chakraborty (UCI)

Tuck-Boon Chan (PhD, UCLA)

Arup De (UCSD)

Laura Grupp (PhD, UCSD)

Michael Jo (UIUC)

Sathyanarayan Kuppuswamy (MS, UCSD)

Michael Lee (MS, UCSD)

Kaisen Lin (PhD, UCSD)

John McCullough (PhD, UCSD)

Soyeon Park (Postdoc, UCSD)

Pravin Prabhu (UCSD)

John Sartori (PhD, UIUC)

Joseph Sloan (PhD, UIUC)

Codrut Stancu (UIC)

Hung-Wei Tseng (UCSD)

Johnny Yam (UCLA)

People

The Variability Expedition has assembled a distinguished team of researchers from three University of California campuses (in San Diego, Los Angeles and Irvine) as well as the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Director
	Rajesh Gupta, Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems; Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering; and Associate Director, Calit2 Research: Embedded systems and mobile computing, including the integration of software and hardware to make computers more portable and energy efficient (i.e., power-aware computing) Website: http://mesl.ucsd.edu/rgupta/
Deputy Director
	Mani B. Srivastava, Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs, Electrical Engineering, UCLA Research: Low-power and energy-aware embedded systems; wireless sensor and actuator networks; mobile and wireless computing and networking; and pervasive computing. Website: http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/people/mbs/
Executive Director
	Lucas Wanner, post-doctoral researcher, Electrical Engineering, UCLA Research: Operating systems for embedded applications; power management for dedicated computing platforms; tools and runtime support for variability-aware computation. Website:http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/people/lucas
Co-Principal Investigators
	Yuvraj Agarwal: Research Scientist, Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD Research: At the intersection of mobile computing, embedded systems, and systems and networking. Current topics of interest include energy management at all scales -- from small sensor nodes, to PCs and servers, and to entire buildings. Website: http://synergy.ucsd.edu/yuvraj
	Lara Dolecek, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA Research: Statistical inference and graphical models; information and coding theory for data storage and communication; rare events, uncertainty characterization, advanced statistical sampling methods and fast simulation methodologies for large-scale complex systems. Website: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~dolecek/
	Nikil Dutt, Chancellor’s Professor, Computer Science and EECS, UC Irvine Research: Embedded systems and computer-aided design (CAD), with specific focus on the exploration, evaluation and design of domain-specific embedded systems spanning both software and hardware. Website: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dutt/
	Puneet Gupta, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA Research: Optimization across application-architecture-implementation-fabrication interfaces; scan-based testing to topography-aware OPC to application adaptation for hardware variability, including variation-tolerant circuits and systems, cost-effective VLSI manufacturing leveraging design awareness, design challenges for next generation manufacturing, and interactions between architecture/application and hardware design. Website: http://nanocad.ee.ucla.edu/
	Ranjit Jhala, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research: Prof. Jhala is interested in Programming Languages and Software Engineering, more specifically, in techniques for building reliable computer systems. His work draws from, combines and contributes to the areas of Model Checking, Program Analysis and Automated Deduction. Website: http://pho.ucsd.edu/rjhala/
	Rakesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC Research: Robust and low-power processors and systems, with special focus on multi-core and multi-threaded architectures, CAD/architecture interactions, low power and complexity-effective designs, as well as reliability and fault tolerance. Website: http://passat.crhc.illinois.edu/rakeshk/index.html
	Sorin Lerner, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Research: Programming language and analysis techniques for making software systems easier to write, maintain and understand, including static program analysis, domain specific languages, compilation, formal methods and automated theorem proving. Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lerner/
	Subhasish Mitra, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University Research: Robust system design, VLSI design, CAD, validation & test, computer architecture, and emerging nanotechnologies. Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~subh/
	Alexandru Nicolau, Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Center for Embedded Computer Systems, UC Irvine Research: Prof. Nicolau’s primary research interests are in parallelizing compilers, high-performance Java, power-aware computing, and reconfigurable computing. Website: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nicolau/
	Tajana Simunic Rosing, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of System Energy Efficiency Lab, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Research: Embedded system design; resource management at the system level; hardware management and embedded software optimization; power and thermal management algorithms Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~trosing/
	Steve Swanson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Research: Computer architecture; Arsenal massively heterogeneous multi-processors; non-volatile systems; memory systems for large-scale cellular multi-processors (CMP) Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~swanson/
	Dennis Sylvester, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan Research: High-performance VLSI circuit design and electronic design automation (EDA), including: low-power design and EDA; variability-aware design methodologies (i.e., design for robustness); and interconnect modeling and analysis. Website: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dennis/
	Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou, Co-PI and Qualcomm Endowed Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research: Computer performance, including reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost of ownership; next-generation system design, including energy and thermal management for data centers, software dependability, and storage systems Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yyzhou/

Advisory Board

Robert C. Aitken Aitken is an R&D Fellow at ARM. His areas of responsibility include low power design, library architecture, and design for manufacturability. He has worked extensively on design, manufacturing and variability issues at ARM, Artisan, Agilent and HP. He has given tutorials and short courses on a variety of subjects at conferences and universities worldwide. He has published over 70 technical papers, and holds a Ph.D. degree from McGill University in Canada.

Prith Banerjee is senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, the company’s central research organization. In these roles, he assists the HP executive vice president of strategy and technology in charting technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide. Most recently, Banerjee was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also is the founder, chairman and chief scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products and services in electronic design automation.
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Shekhar Y. Borkar is an Intel Fellow, Intel Labs and Director of Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab. He is responsible for directing research in technologies for Intel's future microprocessors. Borkar joined Intel in 1981. He worked on the design of the 8051 family of microcontrollers, iWarp multicomputer and high-speed signaling technology for Intel supercomputers. Borkar is an adjunct member of the faculty of the Oregon Graduate Institute. He has published over 60 articles and holds 41 patents.
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KeithBowman
Keith A. Bowman received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. He is currently a Staff Research Scientist in the Circuit Research Lab (CRL) at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a Senior Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Engineer in the Technology-CAD Division at Intel in Hillsboro, OR, where he developed and supported statistical-based models, methodologies, and software tools to predict microprocessor performance and power variability. Since joining CRL in 2004, Bowman's research has focused on the development of circuit design solutions to mitigate the impact of parameter variations on microprocessor performance and power. He has published over 50 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals and presented 15 tutorials on variation-tolerant circuit design.

John Cohn is currently an IBM Fellow in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. Dr. Cohn has been an innovator in the area of design automation for both analog and digital custom integrated circuits. He earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, and in 2005 he was elected an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contribution to high performance custom circuit design automation. Dr. Cohn has authored more than 30 technical papers and has contributed to four books on design automation. He has more than 50 patents issued or pending in the field of design automation, methodology, and circuits. Dr. Cohn is active in education issues at a local, state and national level, and takes his traveling "Jolts and Volts" electricity show to diverse venues across the U.S.
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Robert W. Dutton attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He has been at Stanford University since 1971, most recently serving as Director of Research at the Center for Integrated Systems (CIS) from 1992-2004 and presently as the Director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICL) within the Electrical Engineering Department. He is the Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor of Engineering and holds numerous awards recognizing his pioneering contributions in the field of modeling and simulation of IC processes, devices and circuits. His research has focused on computer simulation of integrated circuit technology.
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Andrew B. Kahng is Professor of CSE and ECE in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. His research foci include integrated-circuit physical design and design for manufacturability, as well as design estimation and roadmapping spanning physical through system-level implementation. From 2000 to the present, he has chaired or co-chaired both the U.S. and International Design Technology Working Groups for the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). He founded the International Symposium on Physical Design in 1997 and the System-Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop in 1999.
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Staff and Consultants

Eric Arsenau, Staff Engineer, Squawk Project, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Expertise: Squawk Java operating environment for small devices; FRC-FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.
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William Herrera, Education Coordinator, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA
Expertise: Coordination of education and outreach programs within the UCLA Engineering Science Corps Outreach Program, including mentoring and a summer programs for high school students.
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Shirley Miranda, Director, Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair; AP Statistics and Computer Science teacher at Morse High School; UCSD alumna in computer engineering
Expertise: Teaching AP statistics and computer science; the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair is a non-profit 501(c)(3) which operates solely on donations and is run completely by volunteers.
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