Alumni

1. Soheil Nazar Shasavani (Ph.D., Mar. 2021)
   Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA
2. Hassan Afzali-Kusha (Ph.D., Mar. 2021)
   Quandary Peak Research, Los Angeles, CA
3. Ting-Ru Li (Ph.D., Aug. 2020)
   Meta (Facebook), Palo Alto, CA
4. Ghasem Pasandi (Ph.D., Aug 2020)
   NVIDIA, San Jose, CA
5. Naveen Katam (Ph.D., Aug 2019)
   SeeQC Inc., Elmsford, NY
6. Luhao Wang (Ph.D., May 2019)
   Facebook Research, Menlo Park, CA
7. Shuang Chen (Ph.D., May 2018)
   Google, Inc. Mountain View CA
8. Tiansong Cui (Ph.D., May 2017)
   Google, Inc. Mountain View CA
9. Alireza Shafaei (Ph.D., Aug 2016)
   Google, Inc. Mountain View CA
10. Inkwon Hwang (Ph.D., May 2016)
    Apple, San Francisco, CA
11. Di Zhu (Ph.D., May 2016)
    Google, Inc. Calabasas CA
12. Xue Lin (Ph.D., May 2016)
    Email: xue.lin@northeastern.edu
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
13. Mohammad Javad Dousti (Ph.D., Dec. 2015)
    Email: me@mjdousti.com
    Facebook Research, Menlo Park CA
14. Woojoo Lee (Ph.D., May 2015)
    Email: space@etri.re.kr
    Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea
15. Qing Xie (Ph.D., Dec. 2014)
    Google, Inc. Mountain View CA
16. Yanzhi Wang (Ph.D., Aug. 2014)
    Email: ywang393@syr.edu
    Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
17. Hadi Goudarzi (Ph.D., Aug. 2013)
    Email: hadi.goudarzi@gmail.com
    Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
18. Mehdi Saeedi (Postdoc 2012-2013)
    Email: msaeedi@gmail.com
    AMD, Toronto, Canada
19. Mohammad Ghasemazar (PhD 2011)
    Email: m.ghasemazar@gmail.com
    Qualcomm, San Diego CA
20. Hamed Abrishami (PhD 2011)
    Email: habrisha@usc.edu
    Qualcomm, San Diego CA
21. Safar Hatami (PhD 2011)
    Email: safar.hatami@broadcom.com
    Office of CTO, Broadcom, Irvine CA
22. Maryam Soltan (PhD 2011)
    Email: soltan@usc.edu
23. Kimish Pateli (PhD 2010)
    Email: kimish.patel@gmail.com
    Samsung Research America, San Jose CA
24. Nasir Mohyuddin (PhD 2010)
    Email: mohyuddi@usc.edu
    National Research Lab, Lahore, Pakistan
25. Ehsan Pakbaznia (PhD 2010)
    Email: epakbazn@intel.com
    Intel, Calabasas CA
26. Hwisung Jung (PhD 2009)
    Email: hsjung@broadcom.com
    Broadcom, San Diego CA
27. Wonbok Lee (PhD 2008)
    Email: wonbokle@gmail.com
    Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara CA
28. Behnam Amelifard (PhD 2007)
    Email: behnam.amelifard@gmail.com
    Qualcomm Inc., San Diego CA
29. Hanif Fatemi (PhD 2007)
    Email: hanif@synopsys.com
    Sr. Research & Development Engineer. Synopsys Inc., Mountain View CA
30. Shahin Nazarian (PhD 2006)
    Email: shahin@usc.edu
    Dept. of EE, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
31. Afshin Abdollahi (PhD 2006)
    Email: afshin1975@gmail.com
    Knight Capital Group, Jersey City, NJ
32. Chan-seok Hwang (PhD 2006)
    Email: chanseoh@usc.edu
    Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
33. Chang-woo Kang (PhD 2006)
    Email: cw0607.kang@samsung.com
    Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
34. Morteza Maleki (PhD 2006)
    Deceased.
35. Peng Rong (PhD 2006)
    Email: prong2006@gmail.com
    Software Engineer, Google, San Jose CA
36. Ali Iranli (PhD 2005)
    Email: airanli@qualcomm.com
    Senior Design Engineer, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego CA
37. Soroush Abbaspour (PhD 2005)
    Email: sabbaspo@us.ibm.com
    Design Engineer, IBM Fishkill, New York NY
38. Kihwan Choi (PhD 2005)
    Email: kihwan.choi@samsung.com
    Senior Design Engineer, Flash memory development, Memory Division, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
39. Yu Hou (MS 2005)
    Email: yhou@usc.edu
40. Yazdan Aghaghiri (PhD 2004)
    Email: yaghaghiri@nvidia.com
    Hardware Engineer, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara CA
41. Ramakrishna Soma (MS 2004)
    Email: rsoma@usc.edu
42. Wei-Chung Cheng (PhD 2003)
    Email: Wei-Chung.Cheng@fda.hhs.gov
    Imaging Physics Laboratory, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
43. Gaurang Khetan (MS 2003)
    Email: gkhetan@cisco.com
    URL: http://gaurang.org
    Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, San Jose CA
44. Amir H. Ajami (PhD 2002)
    Email: Amir.Ajami@synopsys.com
    Sr. Research & Development Engineer. Synopsys Inc., Mountain View CA
45. Peyman Rezvani (PhD 2002)
    Email: peyman_r@yahoo.com
    Startup in CA
46. Jianlin Liang (MS 2002)
    Email: jianlinl@broadcom.com
    Staff Scientist, Broadcom, San Diego CA
47. Gokhan Daglikoca (MS 2001)
    Email: gokhand@cadence.com
    Lead Sales Application Engineer, NA West – IC Digital, Cadence Design Systems, Austin TX
48. Qing Wu (PhD 2001)
    Email: qing.wu@rl.af.mil
    Emerging Computing Technology Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory/RITC, Rome NY
49. Wei Chen (PhD 2001)
    Email: wchen@magma-da.com
    Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA
50. Payam Heydari (PhD 2001)
    Email: payam@ece.uci.edu
    URL: http://www.ece.uci.edu/~payam/
    Professor, University of California, Irvine CA
51. Wai Tong Samson Lee (MS 2000)
    Email: slee@amcc.com
    Principal Design Engineer, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
52. Qinru Qiu (PhD 2000)
    Email: qiqiu@syr.edu
    URL: http://hydrogen.ws.binghamton.edu/~qqiu/
    Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
53. Lung-Sheng (Kevin) Chen (MS 2000)
    E-mail: kchen@avalent.com
    Avalent Technologies Inc. CA
54. Amir H. Salek (PhD 2000)
    E-mail: asalek@google.com
    Director, Google, Mountain View CA
55. Jack (Yung-Ching) Wu (MS 1999)
    Intel, Santa Clara CA
56. Pasquale Cocchini (Post-PhD 1999)
    E-mail: pasquale.cocchini@intel.com
    Intel Strategic CAD Lab, Oregon
57. Jinan Lou (PhD 1999)
    E-mail: jinan@google.com
    Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View CA
58. Cheng-Ta Hsieh (PhD 1999)
    E-mail: chengtah@cadence.com
    Architect, Cadence Design Automation, San Jose CA
59. Shih-Lian Ou (PhD 1999)
    E-mail: shihlian@sahand.usc.edu
    Assistant Dean, Chinese Military Academy, Taiwan
60. Radu Marculescu (PhD 1998)
    E-mail: radum@ece.cmu.edu
    URL: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~radum/
    Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
61. Diana Marculescu (PhD 1998)
    E-mail: dianam@ece.cmu.edu
    URL: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~dianam/
    Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
62. Raymond (Jui-Ming) Chang (PhD 1998)
    E-mail: juiming@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
63. Jing Hu (MS 1997)
    E-mail: huj@std.teradyne.com
    Hardware Engineer, Teradyne, Agoura Hills CA
64. Jaewon Oh (PhD 1997)
    E-mail: Jaewon.Oh@sun.com
    Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle, Palo Alto CA
65. Chih-Shun Ding (PhD 1997)
    E-mail: dingc@nb.conexant.com
66. Bahman Nobandegani (MS 1996)
    Juniper Networks
67. Thomas Chi Keung Lee (MS 1996)
    Nvidia Corp.
68. Kuo-Rueih Ricky Pan (PhD 1996)
    E-mail: ricky@synopsys.com
69. Sasan Iman (PhD 1996)
    E-mail: iman@simantis.com
70. Iksoo Pyo (Joint advisement with Prof. Despain, PhD 1996)
    E-mail: ipyo@ichips.intel.com
71. Chun-Li Pu (MS 1995)
    E-mail: cpu@techgt.com
72. Hirendu Vaishnav (PhD 1995)
    E-mail: vaishnav@synappscorp.com
73. Shihming Liu (Joint advisement with Prof. Despain, PhD 1995)
    E-mail: shermanl@ammocore.com
    Principal Engineer, AmmoCore Technology
74. Debaditya Mukherjee (Joint advisement with Prof. Breuer, PhD 1994)
    E-mail: aditya.mukherjee@magnumsemi.com
    Sr VLSI Manager, Magnum Semiconductor, Milpitas CA
75. Chi-Ying Tsui (Joint advisement with Prof. Despain, PhD 1994)
    E-mail: eetsui@ee.ust.hk
    URL: http://www.cpeg.ust.hk/~eetsui/
76. Yung-Te Lai (Joint advisement with Prof. Vrudhula, PhD 1994)
    E-mail: ytlai@verplex.com