[UCI-Calit2] CS Seminar Series - Friday Nov. 30- 11 a.m.

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Computer Science Seminar Series 2012-13


Title: 		Apply Circuit Analysis and Logic Optimization to
Modeling and Design of Energy Systems

Speaker: 	Prof. Lei He, UCLA

Time: 		11 a.m.-noon

Date: 		Friday Nov. 30, 2012 

Location: 	Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011 (conference room)

Abstract
He will give a brief introduction to the UCLA Clean Energy Research
Center, and then discuss two energy-related projects based on his
background as an electronic design automation researcher. The first
project applies circuit analysis to model battery systems for state of
charge and state of health, and also for battery diagnosis and
prognosis.

The second project addresses reliability issues for auto and power
electronics, particularly, soft error mitigation for FPGA-based circuits
and systems. He's research group has developed a number of logic
re-synthesis techniques to improve the system mean time to failures by
2x without changing design flow and without visible area, power and
performance overhead.

Bio:
Lei He is professor and area director of circuits and embedded systems
at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and is the founding
director of the UCLA Clean Energy Research Center. The center is a
U.S.-China Ecopartner awarded by the U.S. State of Department and the
China National Development and Reform Commission.

He is a guest chair professor at Fudan University, China, and was a
faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also held
visiting or consulting positions with Cadence Design Systems,  Cisco,
Globalfoundries, Hewlett-Package, Intel and Synopsys, and has been a
technical advisory board member for Apache Design Solutions, Rio Design
Automation, Empyrean Software, Pride Power Systems and DB New Energy.

He earned his Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA in 1999. His
current research includes modeling and simulation, VLSI circuits and
systems, and cyber physical systems for smart grids, electric vehicles
and healthcare. He has published one book and more than 200 technical
papers, with many best paper nominations and awards, including the 2010
ACM Transactions on Electronic System Design Automation Best Paper Award
and the 2011 IEEE Darlington Award.


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