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Books

  1. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak, Intellectual Property Protection in VLSI Design: Theory and Practice, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7320-8, January 2003.

Book Chapters

  1. L. Yuan and G. Qu, Energy Efficient Design for Secure Sensor Networks, in Handbook of Sensor Networks (Chapter 38), CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1968-4, October 2004.

Journal Papers

  1. I. Hong, D. Kirovski, G. Qu, M. Potkonjak, and M. Srivastava, "Power Optimization of Variable Voltage Core-Based Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1702-1714, December 1999.

  2. G. Qu, N. Kawabe, K. Usami, and M. Potkonjak. "Code Coverage-based Power Estimation Techniques for Microprocessors," Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 557-574, July 2002.

  3. S. Megerian, F. Koushanfar, G. Qu, G. Veltri, and M. Potkonjak. "Exposure In Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practical Solutions," ACM Journal of Wireless Networks, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 443-454, September 2002. (Invited as the best student paper awards winner from MobiCom 2001)

  4. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Techniques for Energy-Efficient Communication Pipeline Design," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 542-549, October 2002.

  5. G. Qu. "Publicly Detectable Watermarking for Intellectual Property Authentication in VLSI Design," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 1363-1368, November 2002.

  6. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "System Synthesis of Synchronous Multimedia Applications," ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (Special Issue on Memory Systems), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.74-97, February 2003.

  7. S. Hua and G. Qu. "QoP-Driven Scheduling for MPEG Video Decoding," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics,Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 1341-1347, November 2003. (Selected among best papers from ICCE 2003)

  8. J.L. Wong, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Optimization-Intensive Watermarking Techniques for Decision Problems," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol.23, No. 1, pp.119-127, January 2004.

  9. A.E. Caldwell, H. Choi, A.B. Kahng, S. Mantik, M. Potkonjak, G. Qu, and J.L. Wong. "Effective Iterative Techniques for Fingerprinting Design IP," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol.23, No.2, pp.208-215, February 2004.

  10. J.L. Wong, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Power Minimization in QoS Sensitive Systems," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 553-561, June 2004.

  11. S. Hua and G. Qu. "Voltage Set-up Problem for Embedded Systems with Multiple Voltages," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 869-872, July 2005.

  12. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "Analysis of Energy Reduction on Dynamic Voltage Scaling-Enabled Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 1827-1837, December 2005.

  13. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "A Combined Gate Replacement and Input Vector Control Approach for Leakage Current Reduction," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 173-182, February 2006.

  14. S. Hua, G. Qu, and S.S. Bhattacharyya. "Energy-Efficient Embedded Software Implementation on Multi-Processor System-On-Chip with Multiple Voltages," ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (Special Issue on Concurrent Hardware-Software Design Method for Multi-Processor System-On-Chip), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 321-341, May 2006.

  15. J. Feng, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Kernel Density Estimation-Based Data Correlation," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 974-981, August 2006.

  16. J. Feng, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Actuator-Based Infield Sensor Calibration," IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 1571-1579, December 2006.

  17. S. Hua, G. Qu, and S.S. Bhattacharyya. "Probabilistic Design of Multimedia Embedded Systems," ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 6, July 2007.

  18. S.N. Pamnani, D.N. Agarwal, G. Qu, and D. Yeung. "Low Power System Design with Performance Enhancement Techniques," Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 745-767, October 2007.

  19. H. Liu, B.R. Zeeberg, G. Qu, A.G. Koru, A. Ferrucci, A. Kahn, M.C. Ryan, A. Nuhanovic, P.J. Munson, W.C. Reinhold, D.W. Kane, and J.N. Weinstein. "AffyProbeMiner: a web resource for computing or retrieving accurately redefined Affymetrix probe sets," Online Journal of Bioinformatics.

    Manuscript under review/revision

  20. S. Hua and G. Qu. "On Transferring Multimedia Application's Tolerance to Execution Failure to Energy Reduction," IEEE Design and Test. (submitted: December 2003, 1st revision under preparation)

  21. L. Yuan, G. Qu, T. Villa, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "FSM Re-Engineering: A Novel Approach to Sequential Circuit Synthesis," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, (submitted: October 2005)

  22. V. Kianzad, S.S.Bhattacharyya, and G. Qu. "CASPER: An Integrated Framework for Energy-Driven Scheduling on Embedded Multiprocessor Systems," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, (submitted: 2007)

Conference Papers in Referred Conferences, Symposiums, and Workshops

  1. I. Hong, D. Kirovski, G. Qu, M. Potkonjak, and M. Srivastava. "Power Optimization of Variable Voltage Core-Based Systems," 35th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 176-181, June 1998.

  2. G. Qu , and M. Potkonjak. "Techniques for Energy Minimization of Communication Pipelines," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 597-600, November 1998.

  3. G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Analysis of Watermarking Techniques for Graph Coloring Problem," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 190-193, November 1998.

  4. I. Hong, G. Qu, M. Potkonjak, and M.B. Srivastava. "Synthesis Techniques for Low-Power Hard Real-Time Systems on Variable Voltage Processor," 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 178-187, December 1998.

  5. K.T. Kornegay, G. Qu , and M. Potkonjak. "Quality of Service and System Design," (Invited paper) IEEE Computer Society Annual Workshop on VLSI, Theme: System Level Design, pp. 112-117, April 1999.

  6. G. Qu , D. Kirovski, M. Potkonjak, and M.B. Srivastava. "Energy Minimization of System Pipelines Using Multiple Voltages," (Invited paper) IEEE Interna tional Symposium on Circuits and Systems, VLSI, Vol. 1, pp. 362-365, May 1999.

  7. A.E. Caldwell, H. Choi, A.B. Kahng, S. Mantik, M. Potkonjak, G. Qu, J.L. Wong. "Effective Iterative Techniques for Fingerprinting Design IP," 36th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 843 -848, June 1999.

  8. G. Qu, J.L. Wong, and M. Potkonjak. "Optimization-Intensive Watermarking Techniques for Decision Problems," 36th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 33-36, June 1999.

  9. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Hiding Signatures in Graph Coloring Solutions," 3rd Information Hiding Workshop, pp. 391-408, September 1999.

  10. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Power Minimization Using System -Level Partitioning of Applications with Quality of Service Requirements," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 343-346, November 1999.

  11. Y. Chen, A.B. Kahng, G. Qu, and A. Zelikovsky. "The Associative-Skew Clock Rout ing Problem," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 168-171, November 1999.

  12. G. Qu , M. Mesarina, and M. Potkonjak. "System Synthesis of Synchronous Multimedia Application," 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on System Synthesis, pp. 128-133, November 1999.

  13. G. Qu , J.L. Wong, and M. Potkonjak. "Fair Watermarking Technique," IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 55-60, January 2000.

  14. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Fingerprinting Intellectual Property Using Constraint-Additio," 37th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 587-592, June 2000.

  15. G. Qu , N. Kawabe, K. Usami, and M. Potkonjak. "Function-Level Power Estimation Methodology for Microprocessor," 37th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 810-813, June 2000.

  16. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Energy Minimization with Guaranteed Quality of Service," ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 43-48, July 2000.

  17. G. Qu and M. Potkonjak. "Achieving Utility Arbitrarily Close to Optimal with Limited Energy," ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 125-130, July 2000.

  18. F. Koushanfar, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Intellectual Property Metering," 4th Information Hiding Workshop, pp. 87-102, LNCS Vol. 2137, Springer-Verlag, April 2001.

  19. G. Qu. "Keyless Public Watermarking for Intellectual Property Authentication," 4th Information Hiding Workshop, pp. 103-118, LNCS Vol. 2137, Springer-Verlag, April 2001.

  20. G. Qu. "Publicly Detectable Techniques for the Protection of Virtual Components," 38th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings, pp. 474-479, June 2001.

  21. F. Koushanfar and G. Qu. "Hardware Metering," 38th ACM/IEEE Design Automati on Conference Proceedings, pp. 490-493, June 2001.

  22. S. Meguerdichian, F. Koushanfar, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Exposure in Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks," ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, pp. 139-150, July 2001. (Best Student Paper Awards).

  23. G. Qu. " What is the Limit of Energy Saving by Dynamic Voltage Scaling?" IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 560-563, November 2001.

  24. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "Design Space Exploration for Energy-Efficient Secure Sensor Network," 13th IEEE International conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'02), pp. 88-97, July 2002.

  25. J. Wong, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "An On-line Approach for Power Minimization in QoS Sensitive Systems," IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 59-64, January 2003.

  26. S. Hua and G. Qu. "A New Quality of Service Metric for Hard/Soft Real-Time Applications," IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'03), pp. 347-351, April 2003.

  27. A. Jain, L. Yuan, P. Pari, and G. Qu. "Zero Overhead Watermarking Technique for FPGA Designs," 13th IEEE /ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'03), pp. 147-152, April 2003.

  28. G. Qu. "Introducing the Concept of Design Reuse into Undergraduate Digital Design Curriculum," 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE'03), pp 10-11, June 2003.

  29. S. Hua, G. Qu, and S.S. Bhattacharyya. "Energy Reduction Techniques for Multimedia Applications with Tolerance to Deadline Misses," 40th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings (DAC'03), pp. 131-136, June 2003.

  30. S. Hua, G. Qu, and S.S. Bhattacharyya. "Exploring the Probabilistic Design Space of Multimedia Systems," 14th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP'03), pp. 233-240, June 2003.

  31. S. Hua and G. Qu. "QoP-Driven Scheduling for MPEG Video Decoding," 22nd IEEE 2003 international conference on consumer electronics (ICCE'03), pp. 48-49, June 2003.

  32. S. Hua, G. Qu, and S.S. Bhattacharyya. "Energy-Efficient Multi-Processor Implementation of Embedded Software," 3rd ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT'03), pp. 257-273, October 2003.

  33. G. Veltri, Q. Huang, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Minimal and Maximal Exposure Path Algorithms for Wireless Embedded Sensor Networks," 1st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'03), November 2003.

  34. S. Hua and G. Qu. "Approaching the Maximum Energy Saving on Embedded Systems with Multiply Voltages," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'03), pp. 26-29, November 2003.

  35. S. Hua and G. Qu. "QoS-Driven Scheduling for Multimedia Applications," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 125-128, May 2004.

  36. D. Agarwal, S. Pamnani, G. Qu, and D. Yeung. "Transferring Performance Gain from Software Prefetching to Energy Reduction," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 241-244, May 2004.

  37. A. Balkan, G. Qu, and U. Vishkin. "Arbitrate-and-Move Primitives for High Throughput On-Chip Interconnection Networks," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 441-444, May 2004.

  38. P. Pari, L. Yuan, and G. Qu. "How Many Solutions Does a SAT Instance Have?" IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 5, pp. 209-212, May 2004.

  39. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "Information Hiding in Finite State Machine," 6th Information Hiding Workshop, pp. 340-354, LNCS Vol. 3200, Springer, May 2004.

  40. L. Yuan, P. Pari, and G. Qu. "Soft IP Protection: Watermarking HDL Source Codes," 6th Information Hiding Workshop, pp. 224-238, LNCS Vol. 3200, Springer, May 2004.

  41. P. Pari, J. Lin, L. Yuan, and G. Qu. "Generating "Random" 3-SAT Instances with Specific Solution Space Structure," 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI), pp. 960-961, July 2004.

  42. L. Yuan, P. Pari, and G. Qu. "Finding Redundant Constraints for FSM Minimization," 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI), pp. 976-977, July 2004.

  43. S. Hua and G. Qu. "Energy-Efficient Dual-Voltage Soft Real-Time System with (m,k)-Firm Deadline Guarantee," ACM International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis of Embedded Systems, pp. 116-123, September 2004.

  44. J. Feng, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Differential On-line Sensor Calibration," 3rd IEEE Conference on Sensors (Sensors'2004), pp. 417-420, October 2004.

  45. J. Feng, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Sensor Calibration using Nonparametric Statistical Characterization of Error Models," 3rd IEEE Conference on Sensors (Sensors'2004), pp. 1456-1459, October 2004.

  46. L. Yuan, G. Qu, T. Villa, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "FSM Re-Engineering and Its Application in Low Power State Encoding," IEEE/ACM Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC'05), January 2005.

  47. S. Hua and G. Qu. "Power Minimization Techniques on Distributed Real-Time Systems by Global and Local Slack Management," IEEE/ACM Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC'05), January 2005.

  48. L. Yuan, G. Qu, and A. Srivastava. "VLSI CAD Tool Protection by Birthmarking Design Solutions," 15th IEEE /ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'05), pp. 341-344, April 2005.

  49. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "Enhanced Leakage Reduction Technique by Gate Replacement," 42nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'05), pp. 47-50, June 2005.

  50. V. Kianzad, S.S. Bhattacharyya, and G. Qu. "CASPER: An Integrated Energy-Driven Approach for Task Graph Scheduling on Distributed Embedded Systems," 16th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'05), July 2005.

  51. S. Leventhal, L. Yuan, M.K. Bambha, S.S. Bhattacharyya, and G. Qu. "DSP Address Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms," 9th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES'05), September 2005.

  52. L. Yu, L. Yuan, G. Qu, and A. Ephremides. "Energy-Driven Detection Scheme with Guaranteed Accuracy," 5th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06), April, 2006.

  53. L. Yuan, G. Qu, L. Ghout, and A. Bouridane. "VLSI Design IP Protection: Solutions, New Challenges, and Opportunities," First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'06), pp. 469 - 476, June 2006.

  54. A. Balkan, G. Qu, and U. Vishkin. "A Mesh-of-Trees Interconnection Network for Single-Chip Parallel Processing," 17th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'06), pp. 73-80. September 2006 (Best Paper Awards).

  55. S. Hua, P.R. Pari, and G. Qu. "Dual-Processor Design of Energy Efficient Fault-Tolerant System," 17th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'06), pp. 239-244, September 2006.

  56. G. Han, S. Hua, and G. Qu. "A New Approach Towards Solving the Location Discovery Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks," Military Communications Conference (MilCom'06), October 2006.

  57. L. Yuan, S. Leventhal, and G. Qu. "Temperature-Aware Leakage Minimization Techniques for Real-Time Systems," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'06), November 2006.

  58. M. Drinic, D. Kirovski, G. Qu, L. Yuan, and M. Potkonjak. "Field Division Routing," IST Mobile Summit, July 2007.

  59. A. Balkan, M.N. Horak, G. Qu, and U. Vishkin. "Layout-Accurate Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Interconnection Network for Single-Chip Parallel Processing," 15th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects, July 2007.

  60. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "ALT-DVS: Dynamic Voltage Scaling with Awareness of Leakage and Temperature for Real-Time Systems," 2nd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007), August 2007.

  61. K. Lin, L. Yuan, and G. Qu. "SecureGo: A Hardware-Software Co-Protection against Identity Theft in Online Transaction," ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS-2007), August 2007.

  62. G. Qu. "Power Management of Multicore Multiple Voltage Embedded Systems by Task Scheduling," International Workshop on Embedded Single and Multicore Systems on Chips (McSoC'07), September 2007.

  63. L. Yuan, and G. Qu. "Simultaneous Input Vector Selection and Dual Threshold Voltage Assignment for Static Leakage Minimization," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'07), November 2007.

    Papers in non-Referred Workshops (without Proceedings)

  64. J. Wong, G. Qu, and M. Potkonjak. "Power Minimization under QoS Constraint," IEEE International Packetvideo Workshop, April 2002.

  65. S. Hua and G. Qu. "On-Line Voltage Scheduling for Multimedia Applications," 1st Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTImedia'03), pp. 24-31, October 2003.

  66. L. Yuan and G. Qu. "FSM Re-Engineering for Low Power State Encoding," 13th International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS'04), pp. 257-264, June 2004.

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