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:
Low Power System Design
System-level Power Optimization, Thermal Management
Near-Threshold Circuits Operation
CMOS Circuits Reliability
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
Design the thermal management algorithm for Tegra SoC.
Tune the thermal control mechanism to optimize the performance.
Power Architecture Intern at NVIDIA Corporation Summer 2012
Perform the power estimation and analysis for the Tegra System-on-Chip.
Debug and test the power estimation tools.
Design a semi-automatic flow of adding new usecases to the power calculation tools.
Teaching Assistant at University of Southern California 2011 ~ 2012
TA for EE477L: CMOS VLSI Circuit Design
TA for EE577a: VLSI System Design
Miscellaneous
The PhD Comics: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php