PhD Student
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Email: xqing@usc.edu
Tel: 213-740-4460
Biography
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. I have been working in System Power Optimization and Regulation Technologies (SPORT) Lab at USC since Fall 2010, under the supervision of Prof. Massoud Pedram.
My research interests include:
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Low Power System Design
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System-level Power Optimization, Thermal Management
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Near-Threshold Circuits Operation
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CMOS Circuits Reliability
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Statistical Static Timing Analysis
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA 2009 ~ present
PhD student in Electrical Engineerging Department Advisor: Massoud Pedram
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2007 ~ 2009
M.S. in Physics Advisor: Alain Karma
Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2003 ~ 2007
B.S. in Physics Advisor: Yongli Ma
Working Experience
Research Assistant at University of Southern California 2010 ~ present
Power Architecture Intern at NVIDIA Corporation Summer 2013
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Design the thermal management algorithm for Tegra SoC.
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Tune the thermal control mechanism to optimize the performance.
Power Architecture Intern at NVIDIA Corporation Summer 2012
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Perform the power estimation and analysis for the Tegra System-on-Chip.
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Debug and test the power estimation tools.
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Design a semi-automatic flow of adding new usecases to the power calculation tools.
Teaching Assistant at University of Southern California 2011 ~ 2012
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TA for EE477L: CMOS VLSI Circuit Design
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TA for EE577a: VLSI System Design
Miscellaneous
The PhD Comics: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
