Yufu Zhang
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
College Park, MD, 20742
Office: 2356 A.V.Williams Bldg.
Phone: 301-405-0283
Email: yufuzh {at} umd.edu
Research Interests
Thermal and Power Problems for Nanometer VLSI Technology
Variation-aware VLSI Design Optimization
Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
Optical Proximity Correction (OPC)
Education
PhD student, enrolled in fall 2007
Advisor: Ankur Srivastava
Major: Computer Engineering
Current GPA: 4.0/4.0
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China M.S. degree received in 2007
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Fudan University, Shanghai, China B.S. degree received in 2005
Selected Awards
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Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2007;
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National Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Zhejiang University, 2007;
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First-Class Award in the National Physics Olympic Contest, 2000;
(Ranked 7th out of 6000 in Shaanxi Province, top 1‰)
Current Projects
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On-chip Sensor Network Allocation and Thermal Monitoring
With the ever decreasing feature size of today’s VLSI technology, the variations and randomness in the chip behavior leads to error-prone effects, this is especially true in the thermal behavior. In this project we plan to first systematically investigate the on-chip thermal sensor allocation problem and then, utilizing the sensor-collected information, to effectively control the overheat problem as well as to enhance the overall reliability of the fabricated chip. Thermal profile reconstruction is the key to the allocation problem and hence makes our first goal in this research project.