Chi-Foon Chan
William Y.B Chang
Liang-Gee Chen
Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng
Wayne W.-M. Dai
Alfred E. Dunlop
Robert Grafton
Scott Hauck
Youn-Long Lin
C. L. Liu
Sheng-Chun (Paul) Lo
Sung-Mo(Steve) Kang
Massoud Pedram
Miodrag Potkonjak
Bryan T. Preas
Wen-Zen Shen
Jyuo-Min Shyu
Steve Trimberger
Ming-Kai Tsai
Albert Wang
Jhing-Fa Wang
Chung Yu Wu
Min Wu
Ping Yang
Chi-Foon Chan received M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
He served as Senior Engineering Manager in Application Research group of Intel Corp. from 1978 to 1987.
From 1987 to 1990, he was the General Manager of micro-processor group of NEC Electronic, U.S.A.
Dr. Chan joined Synopsys in 1990 and served in various executive positions include General Manager of Design Tool Group and Vice President of Engineering. Dr. Chan now is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Synopsys.
Degrees:
M.S. in marine science University of the Pacific 1973
M.A. in ecology Indiana Univ., Bloomington 1975
Ph.D. in ecology Indiana Univ., Bloomington 1979
(with minor in mathematics and statistics)
Professional Experience:
Program Director, Cooperative Science Programs with ASEAN (Indonesia,
Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Bunei, and Laos), Taiwan,
China, and Mongolia, National Science Foundation, 1994-.
Program Director, AIT (US)-CCNAA (Taiwan) Cooperative Science Program and Mongolia Cooperative Science Program, National Science Foundation, 1992-1994.
Program Manager, China Cooperative Science Program and AIT (US)-CCNAA (Taiwan) Cooperative Science Program, National Science Foundation, 1989-1992.
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Environmental Research Laboratory at Corvallis, Oregon, EPA Visiting Scientists and Engineers Program, 1990-1993.
Program Associate, China Cooperative Science Program, National Science Foundation, 1988-1989.
Adjunct Professor, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, Univ. of Michigan, 1997-.
Adjunct Research Scientist, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, 1995-.
Associate Professor and Research Scientist, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences and the School of Natural Resources, Univ. of Michigan, 1988-1995.
Research Fellow, The U.S. National Academy of Science, 1984-1985. Collaborative research in the People's Republic of China.
Dr. Chang has more than eighty publications in the areas of ecology, environmental science, and water resources, and has edited three books in the Wiley book series "Principles and Techniques in Environmental Science".
Liang-Gee Chen(M'88-SM'93) was born in Yun-Lin, Taiwan, in 1956. He received the BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively.
He was an Instructor (1981 - 1985), and an Associate Professor ( 1986-1988) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University. Since 1988, he has been on the faculty of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. During 1993 to 1994, he was a consultant with the DSP Research Department, AT&T Bell Lab, Murray Hill, NJ. His research interests include image and video compression, digital signal processing and related VLSI circuits design.
Dr. Chen was the general chairman of the 7th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium. He is also the general chairman of the 1999 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from June 1996 till now and the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems from January 1999. He is a member of the honor society Phi Tau Phi and the senior member of IEEE. He received the 1990 Best Paper Award of ROC Computer Society, 1993 Best Paper Award of Engineer Society, 1991-1998 Long-Term Best Paper Award of Acer, and 1992 Best Paper Award of Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits & Systems. In 1996, he received the Outstanding Research Award of National Science Council and Dragon Excellent Award of Acer.
Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1993 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993 where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Computer Engineering Program. His current research interests include VLSI testing, design synthesis, and design verification. He has co-authored three books, holds six U.S. Patents and has also been working closely with US industry for projects in these areas. He received Best Paper Awards at the 1994 Design Automation Conf., the 1999 Design Automation Conf. and the 1987 AT&T Conference on Electronic Testing.
He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design, IEEE Design and Test of Computers and Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. He has been General Chair and Program Chair of IEEE International Test Synthesis Workshop.
Professor Wayne W.-M. Dai received the B.A. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference, held annually in Santa Cruz, California since 1991. He was the founding and general Chairman of IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration. Professor Dai was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Cadence Design Systems. He was an Associate Editor for {\it IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems} and an Associate Editor for {\it IEEE Transaction on VLSI systems}. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990. Professor Dai have published over 100 journal articles and conference papers in the area of computer aided design and multichip-modules. In 1995, he founded Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., where he is the Chairman of the Board.
Alfred E. Dunlop received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE in 1975 and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1976 and 1979, respectively.
In 1977, he joined the Computer Aided Design Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1980 he designed custom circuits for telecommunications. In 1982, he became Supervisor in The Computer Aided Design and Test Laboratory with responsibility for automated layout of gate array, standard cell, and macro-cell chips. In 1984, he became Head of the Computing Systems Technology Research Department. Dr. Dunlop is currently head of the Design Principles Research Department with responsibilities for Wireless Circuits and Computer Aided Design.
His interests include automatic techniques for performance optimization, physical design, design synthesis and wireless circuits.
In June, 1999 Dr. Dunlop received the IEEE-CAS Technical Achievement Award for seminal contributions to computer-aided design methodology for performance-driven physical design of VLSI circuits and systems.
January 1, 1990, Dr. Dunlop became a Fellow of the IEEE, "For contributions to automated layout of integrated circuits and development of techniques which significantly enhance performance."
Dr. Dunlop has been on the Design Automation Conference program committee 1985-90 and the International Conference on Computer Aided Design program committee since 1986-92.
He was the Technical Program Chairman for the 1990 and 1991 Design Automation Conferences. He served as Vice Chair, General Chair and Past Chair of the Design Automation Conference in 1992, 1993 and 1994 respectively.
He was an associate editor for Layout and Routing for the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Circuits and Systems from 1987-1991. Dr. Dunlop became editor of the Transactions in 1991 and served in that capacity until 1993.
He has also been on numerous planning committees for National Science Foundation (NSF), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Semiconductor Industry of Associations (SIA) and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has served on the National Technology Roadmap for Seniconductors in 1994 and 1997. He is currently serving on the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Committee.
Since 1996 he has been on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society.
Dr. Robert Grafton is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation where he manages the VLSI Design Automation Program. As a collateral duty he has managed the Computer Systems Architecture Program. Prior to NSF, he was at the Office of Naval Research, managing programs in mathematics, computer science and software engineering. His personal research interests are in the area of number theory, with an emphasis on the distribution of prime numbers of generalized repunit form. He has published in several scientific journals.
After getting his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Brown University, he taught mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering at undergraduate and graduate levels and did research in mathematics. Upon graduation with a degree in engineering (Brown University), he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy and was appointed to the staff of Adm. H. G. Rickover, where he worked on the design and development of naval nuclear power plants.
Scott Hauck is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, focusing on reconfigurable computing and FPGA architectures, applications, and CAD tools. He received his B.S. in 1990 from U.C. Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in 1992 and 1995 respectively. Dr. Hauck is has been involved with numerous conferences , including Program Chair for the 2000 ACM Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He received the NSF Career Award in 1999.
Youn-Long Lin was born in Yun-Lin, Taiwan, in 1957. He received his B.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology formerly, National Taiwan Institute of Technology),Taipei, Taiwan, in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 1987. Upon his graduation, he joined Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C., where he has served as the Director of The University Computer and Communication Center, the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science,the Secretary General of the university, and the Director of the University Library. He is currently a professor of computer science. He is on sabbatical leave for school year 1998-99.
Professor Lin's primary research interest is in computer-aided design (CAD) of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) with emphasis on physical design automation and high-level synthesis. He co-authored the book High Level Synthesis -- Introduction to Chip and System Design. He also spend great effort in promoting the VLSI design and CAD education in the R.O.C. by channeling government funding to universities. His current research focus is on design technology for System-on-a-Chips (SOC) employing embedded DRAMs and reusable silicon intellectual properties (IPs).
He has served on program committee, organizing committee, steering committee, and executive committee for several international conferences and workshops on various aspects of CAD including the Design Automation Conference, the International Conference on CAD, the Asia South-Pacific Conference on Design Automation, the International Symposium on System Synthesis, and the International Symposium on Physical Design. Professor Lin is currently serving on the editorial boards of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems(TODAES), Journal of the Chinese Engineering Society, and the Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE). He has been a consultant to the Institute for Information Industry (III), the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Electronic Research and Service Organization (ERSO), and the Computer and Communication Laboratory (CCL). He is an advisor of the Science and Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education, R.O.C. He also serves on advisory boards of several EDA companies.
Professor Lin received a national fellowship for studying abroad from the Ministry of Education, R.O.C. in 1983, co-received the Outstanding Young Author Award from the IEEE Circuit and System Society in 1990 and received the Highest-Honored Research Award from the National Science Council, R.O.C., three consecutive times in 1992, 1994, and 1996.
Dr. Lin is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Circuit and System Society, the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
C. L. Liu received his B.Sc. degree at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, his S.M. and E.E. degrees, and his Sc.D. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
He is the author and co-author of seven books and monographs, and over 180 technical papers. His research interest includes computer-aided design of VLSI circuits (physical and logic design), computer-aided instruction, real-time systems, combinatorial optimization, and discrete mathematics.
He is the recipient of the 1994 IEEE Education Medal. He received the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1992, and the Karl V. Karlstrom Education Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1990. He receives an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Real Time Technical Committee in 1999 for his contribution in the area of Real Time Scheduling. He received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Technical Achievement Award in 1998 for his contribution in the area of computer aided design of VLSI circuits. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He was the founding editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) from 1996 to 1999.
Mr. Sheng-Chun Lo was born in 1959. He graduated from EE Dept., National Taiwan University in 1980. After two years of military service and a year of teaching assistant job in EE Dept, National Taiwan University, he went to University of Southern California (USC) for graduate study. In 1987, Mr. Lo received PH. D. in EE from USC and joined Micro Electronics Center, Hughes Aircraft Company in Newport Beach doing internal CAD development and support. He then joined Cadence Design Systems for IC place & route tool development in 1989. In 1994, Mr. Lo joined QuickTurn Design Systems to work on HDL based logic emulation product for a year. In 1995, Mr. Lo joined Avant! Corporation and worked on various product developments, including Apollo and Planet. Mr. Lo then established Avant! Taiwan Branch in early 1997. Currently, he is leading R&D team working on physical verification product line in Avant! Taiwan Branch.
Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang (S'73-M'75-SM'80-F'90) received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Until 1985 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill and Holmdel, and also served as a faculty member of Rutgers University. In 1985, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Professor of Coordinated Science Laboratory and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He was named the first Charles Marshall Senior University Scholar, an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study, and has served as the Founding Director of Center for ASIC Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne in 1989, at the University of Karlsruhe in 1997 and at the Technical University of Munich in 1998. His research interests include VLSI design methodologies and optimization for performance, reliability and manufacturability, modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices and circuits, high-speed optoelectronic circuits, and fully optical network systems.
He has served as a member of Board of Governors, Secretary and Treasurer, Administrative Vice President, and 1991 President of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has served on the program committees and technical committees of major international conferences which include DAC, ICCAD, ICCD, ISCAS, MCMC, International Conference on VLSI and CAD(ICVC), Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, LEOS Topical Meeting, SPIE OE/LASE Meeting, and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, and Circuits, Signals and Systems. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
Dr. Kang is Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, a Foreign Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in Midwest. He is recipient of the KBS Award in Science and Technology (1998), IEEE CAS Society Technical Achievement Award (1997), Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists (1996), IEEE Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award (1996), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Meritorious Service Award (1994), SRC Inventor Recognition Awards (1993, 1996), IEEE CAS Darlington Prize Paper Award (1993) and other best paper awards (1979, 1987). He was an IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer (1994-1997) and holds six patents, published over 250 papers and co-authored six books, Design Automation For Timing-Driven Layout Synthesis(1992), Hot-Carrier Reliability of MOS VLSI Circuits(1993), Physical Design for Multichip Modules (1994), and Modeling of Electrical Overstress in Integrated Circuits (1994) from Kluwer Academic Publishers, CMOS Digital Circuits: Analysis and Design (1995, 2nd ed. 1998) from McGraw-Hill, and Computer-Aided Design of Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits and Systems (1996) from Prentice Hall.
Massoud Pedram is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering - Systems at the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He is a recipient of the NSF's Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award (a.k.a. PECASE Award) (1996). His current work focuses on developing computer aided design methodologies and techniques for low power design and coupling physical design to logic synthesis.
Dr. Pedram has served on the technical program committee of a number of conferences and workshops, including DAC and ICCAD. He also served as the Technical Co-chair and General Co-chair of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He is a member of IEEE-CAS and ACM-SIGDA and an associate editor of ACM TODAES and IEEE TCAD.
Miodrag Potkonjak is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department,School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1991. In 1991, he joined C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA, Princeton, NJ. Since 1995, he has been with Computer Science Department at UCLA.
He has published more than 150 papers in leading CAD, real-time, signal processing, communications, and testing journals and conferences. He holds 5 patents. He received the Okawa Foundation Grant in 1996 the NSF CAREER award in 1998 and a number of best paper awards. He also received TRW/School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998. His research interests include system design, embedded systems, real-time systems, computational security, and intellectual property protection.
Bryan T. Preas obtained the B.S. degree from Texas A&M University in 1968, the M.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1969, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1979. All degrees were in Electrical Engineering.
He was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, NJ, from 1968 to 1973 where he worked on hardware and software design for large, multiprocessor computers. From 1973 to 1981 he worked at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, with the CAD development group. He was Vice President of Research and Development at VR Information Systems in Austin, TX, from 1981 to 1983 where he was responsible for development of CAD software. In 1983, he joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as Area Manger of Design and Architecture and Principal Scientist. Dr. Preas was awarded the Humboldt Senior Scientist prize and spent 1990 at the University of Paderborn, Germany.
Dr. Preas has published numerous technical papers and is active in the ACM and IEEE. He serves on the organizing and program committees of several conferences and was previously Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on CAD.
He his currently working in the areas of design methodology, low power, large area displays and on control systems for MEMS.
Wen-Zen Shen (S'80-M'88) was born in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in 1950. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1977 and 1982, respectively.
Upon his graduation, he joined the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, where he has served as the Director of the University Computer Center and the Chairman of the Department of Electronics Engineering. In 1992, he initiated the Chip Implementation Center (CIC) at National Science Council, where he has been the Program Director of CIC since 1992. Currently, he is the Professor and the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National Chiao-Tung University , Taiwan. His current research interests focus on VLSI designs and CAD for low-power, logic synthesis, and low-voltage, low-power mixed-mode integrated circuit designs.
Dr. Shen is the member of Phi Tau Phi. He is the recipient of the 1985 Distinguished Teaching Award of the National Chiao-Tung University and the1988 Distinguished Teaching Award of the Ministry of Education, R.O.C.
Jyuo-Min Shyu received his BS and MS degrees from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and PhD degree from Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan in 1988 and has been involved in various IC design and CAD tool development projects. He is now deputy general director of Electronics Research & Service Organization (ERSO), a division of ITRI, and is responsible for the semiconductor related research activities in ERSO/ITRI.
From 1988 to 1990, Dr. Trimberger was a member of the architecture definition group for the Xilinx XC4000 FPGA and the technical leader for the XC4000 design automation software. He led the architecture definition team for the Xilinx XC4000X/EX/XL/XV architecutures. He is currently Manager of Advanced Development at Xilinx where he is responsible for the design of new FPGA architectures and software.
Dr. Trimberger has written two books on computer-aided design for integrated circuits and one book on FPGAs. He has written dozens of papers on design automation and FPGA architectures. He served as Design Methods Chair for the Design Automation Conference, and on the technical prpgrams of ICCD, FPGA Workshops and Symposia. He is program chair for FPGA '99 and General Chair for FPGA '2000. Dr. Trimberger teaches computer-aided design at Santa Clara University. His interests include design automation at all levels, software development methodology and innovative uses of reprogrammable FPGAs.
Mr. Ming-Kai Tsai is chairman of 5 UMC United Microelectronics Corporation product line spin-off companies. As the chairman of these 5 companies, Mr. Tsai shares responsibility for running these five companies with each general manager. Mr. Tsai is focused on developing new technologies and assist UMC group for all investments research.
Mr. Tsai previously served as president of 2nd business group of UMC from 1994 to 1997, in charge of memory, consumer, multimedia business units. And prior to that as executive vice president of different business units which include computer, communication, consumer, memory and IC plant I from 1989 to 1994. He joined UMC in 1983 and has also held the position Director of R&D department of UMC.
Prior to UMC, Mr. Tsai was department manager of ERSO/ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute, responsible for all microcomputer IC designs, Mr. Tsai holds an M.S. in electronic engineering from University of Cincinnati, Ohio and B.S. in electronic engineering from Taiwan University.
Albert R. Wang received his B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics from UCSD magna cum laude in 1984, and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Berkeley in 1989. He was awarded the David Sakrison Memorial Prize by the EECS department in 1990 for outstanding dissertation and research in the area of logic synthesis. He received IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 1987 Darlington Best Paper Award.
In 1989, Albert joined the advanced technology group at Synopsys where he developed some key algorithms for timing-driven logic optimization and fast static timing verification for Design-Compiler.
From 1995 to 1998, Albert has initiated FPGA Express product and managed the engineering team through the product development and lunch. In 1997, Albert was awarded Synopsys Fellow for his key contributions to the timing-driven synthesis, timing verification and FPGA synthesis.
In 1998, Albert joined Tensilica as an chief engineer working in the area of configurable and synthesizable microprocessor designs. His current research interest is in the area of system-level optimization through application-specific instructions.
Jhing-Fa Wang is now a professor in National Cheng Kung University,Tainan, Taiwan, He received his master and bachelor degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1979 & 1973 respectively and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology U.S.A. in 1983. He is now also an associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and VLSI systems. He is now also on the Board of Governors of IEEE Taipei Section .He got outstanding awards from Institute of Information Industry in 1991 and National Science Council in 1990,1995 and 1997, respectively. His current research areas include VLSI/CAD, speech recognition, speech coding, optical character recognition and natural language processing . He has developed a mandarin speech recognition system called Venus-Dictate known as a pionnering system in Taiwan. He has published about 60 journal papers and 150 conference papers since 1983..He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1999 for contributions to software-hardware co-development of large- vocabulary Mandarin speech processing and recognition systems.
CHUNG-YU WU (S'76-M'76-M'88-SM'96-F'98) was born in 1950. He received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1976 and 1980, respectively.
From 1980 to 1984 he was an Associate Professor in the National Chiao- Tung University. During 1984-1986, he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Portland State University, Oregon. Since 1987, he has been a Professor in the National Chiao-Tung University. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Academic Award by the Ministry of Education in 1999, the Outstanding Research Award by the National Science Council in 1989-90, 1995-96, and 1997- 98, the Outstanding Engineering Professor by the Chinese Engineer Association in 1996, and the Tung-Yuan Science and Technology Award in 1997. From 1991 to 1995, he was rotated to serve as Director of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science in the National Science Council. Currently, he is the Centennial Honorary Chair Professor at the National Chiao-Tung University. He has published more than 200 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He also has 18 patents including nine US patents. Since 1980, he has served as a consultant to high-tech industry and research organization. He has built up strong research collaborations with high-tech industries. His research interests focus on low-voltage low-power mixed-mode circuits and systems for multimedia applications, hardware implementation of visual and auditory neural systems, and RF communication circuits and systems.
Dr. Wu served on the Technical Program Committees of IEEE ISCAS, ICECS, APCCAS. He served as the VLSI Track Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of ISCAS'99. He served as a Guest Editor of the Multimedia Special Issue for IEEE T-CSVT in August-October, 1997. He also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-Part II. He served as General Chair of IEEE APCCAS'92. Currently, he serves as the associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and IEEE Transactions on multimedia. He also serves as the Chair of the Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee of the CAS Society. He is one of society representatives in the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Honorary Scholastic Societies, and is a Fellow of IEEE.
1976 MS Stanford University; Major: Material Science
& Engineering
1973 MS National Cheng-Kung University; Major:
Electrical Engineering
1970 BS National Cheng-Kung University; Major:
Electrical Engineering
9/89 - Now Macronix International Co., Ltd.
Founder and President of the company; Focus on Non-Volatile
Memory such as Flash, EPROM, & ROM and Systems-on-Chip
integration for 3C market. The company has developed many
core technologies such as Modem, networking, DSP applications,
Audio, Video, etc.
The company maintains its position in the global market with more
than 50% sales coming from Japanese territory. The company is
also listed in both Taiwan and USA stock market at same time.
11/84-8/89 Macronix Inc.
Founder of the company, Vice President; working on process
development, process transfer to major Japanese, Korean, and
Taiwanese companies. Also have sales responsibility in Far-
East including Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
5/81-11/84 VLSI Technology Inc.
Process Development Manager; working on high performance
HMOS development and Fab process bring-up, also develop
EEPROM, EPROM process technologies. Key technical
founding member in the startup mode.
3/79-5/81 Intel Corp.
Process Development Engineer and Program Manager; working on
high speed SRAM, EPROM, and EEPROM product & process
development.
11/77-3/79 Rockwell International
Process Development Engineer and Section Manager; working
on high performance NMOS, Self-Align contact development, and
yield enhancement etc.
1/77-11/77 Siliconix Inc.
Process Development Engineer; working on high voltage CMOS,
Bipolar PMOS, and yield enhancement, etc.
Wng Yang received the B.S. degree in physics in 1974 from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1978 and 1980, respectively. From 1974 to 1976 he was an ensign in the Chinese Navy. He joined the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, Texas, in August 1980. His interests are in the area of VLSI technology development, computer-aided design, circuits and systems, large-scale integrated circuits and solid-state electronics. He is currently Vice President of Design Services and DRAM Development at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). From 8/97-5/99 he was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at TSMC in charge of ASIC/Design Services, Embedded DRAM, Embedded Flash, Technical Marketing, and Strategic Marketing. Before joining TSMC he was a TI Fellow and Director of Device and Flow Design in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center at Texas Instruments. Dr. Yang has co- authored two books and presented or published over 100 articles in international scientific and technical journals and conferences. In 1992, he received the award for best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on CAD. He has three issued patents and five patents being applied. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of Phi Kappa Phi. He has served on the Program Committee of ICCAD, IEDM, Design Automation conference, VLSI Circuit Symposium, Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, ISCAS, IEEE Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Processes and Devices for Integrated Circuits, and as a Member of the Advisory Committee for International Workshop on Computational Electronics. He also served as an Adcom member of IEEE CAS Society, a Program Evaluator of IEEE-ABET/EAC(1988- 1992), and a member of DAC/SCC. He served as the special Section Editor of the IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine devoted to Circuit Simulation and Modeling (1989-1992), as a Guest Editor of the special issues on Microelectronics Systems, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, as a member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He served as the General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications Program Committee, an associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and a member of Advisory Editorial Board of Solid-State Electronics. In 1984, he served as Dallas section chairman of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He has participated as a lecturer in several short courses for continuing education. He was a visiting lecturer at University of Texas at Dallas in 1985 and is an adjunct professor at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.