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Santa Clara, California, United States

• Designed custom cells to meet timing and reliability specs for key Intel products.
• Enabled Liberty characterization of custom cells for timing, power, leakage, tradeoff analysis.
• Performed PVT and library outlier/trend analysis to evaluate custom cell behavior under different conditions.
• Analyzed standard cell library content to improve execution efficiency and reduce cost.
• Chaired bi-weekly cross region team meetings and organized quarterly project planning.

Santa Clara, California, United States

• Delivered Standard Cell Library releases for key Intel products with NLDM, CCST, CCSN, and OCV model.
• Helped to converge characterization methodology/flows to industry standards and enabled faster turnaround time.
• Chaired weekly meetings with key customers, planned release schedules, and delegated execution tasks to various engineers to meet customer needs and timeline.

Evanston, IL

• Dissertation: “Thermal Characterization and Management of 3D Integrated Circuits”

Batavia, IL

• Developed a framework for low cost high level behavioral power modeling.
• Verified the power model to within 4% of real chip power measurement (Fermilab memory chip VIPRAM00).
• Characterized the VIPRAM00’s correctness dependency on voltage, frequency, and workload.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Developed static and transient thermal analysis model for prototype smartphone through Comsol thermal simulator.
• Studied and analyzed the thermal behavior of smartphone with SpecInt 2K and GL Benchmark.
• Explored the effect of proactive smartphone thermal management technique.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Engineering

Dissertation: Thermal Characterization and Management of 3D Integrated Circuits

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering