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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