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Courses ::

• ENGR 0356 Basic Computer Architecture, Spring 2008, (HSS 101, MW 14:10-15:25)
• ENGR 0857 Reconfigurable Computing, Spring 2008, (HSS 201, W 18:10-20:55)
• ENGR 0478 Design with Microprocessors, Fall 2007
• ENGR 0691 Computer Engineering Seminar I, Fall 2007
• ENGR 0851 Advanced Microprocessor Architecture,Fall 2007
• ENGR 0852 Advanced Digital Design, Spring 2007
• ENGR 0692 Computer Engineering Seminar II, Spring 2007
• ENGR 0378 Digital System Design, Spring 2007
• ENGR 0857 Reconfigurable Computing, Fall 2006
• ENGR 0691 Computer Engineering Seminar I, Fall 2006
• ENGR 0851 Advanced Microprocessor Architecture,Spring 2006
• ENGR 0356 Basic Computer Architecture, Spring 2006
• ENGR 0456 Computer Systems, Fall 2005

Publications ::

• Journals:
  • Ying Chen, Karthik Ranganathan, Vasudev V. Pai, David J. Lilja, and Kia Bazargan, 'A Novel Memory Structure for Embedded Systems: Flexible Sequential and Random Access Memory', Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) Vol. 20, No. 5, 2005.
  • Resit Sendag, Ying Chen and David J. Lilja, 'The Impact of Incorrectly Speculated Memory Operations in a Multithreaded Architecture', IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 16, No. 4, pp 271-285, Apr, 2005.

• Conferences:
  • Rohit Nayak , Ying Chen, 'A Parallel Hardware Implementation for Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC Standard,' 2008 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI 2008), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March, 2008
  • Akili Anderson, Ying Chen, 'Profiling of Bioinformatics Applicaitons for Reconfigurable Computing System,' The 2007 International Conference on Information Computing and Automation (ICICA'07), Chengdu, China, December. 2007
  • Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sachine Sapatnekar, 'Comparing Simulation Techniques for Microarchitecture-Aware Floorplanning', IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, Texas, USA, March 2006.
  • Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sachine Sapatnekar, 'Microarchitecture-aware floorplanning using a statistical design of experiments approach', Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, California, USA, June 2005.
  • Ying Chen, Dennis Abts, and David J. Lilja, 'Efficiently Generating Test Vectors with State Pruning', Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Shanghai, China, January 2005.
  • Ying Chen, Karthik Ranganathan, Vasudev V Pai, David J. Lilja, and Kia Bazargan, 'Enhancing the Memory Performance of Embedded Systems with the Flexible Sequential and Random Access Memory', Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC), Beijing, China, September 2004.
  • Ying Chen, Resit Sendag, and David J. Lilja, 'Using Incorrect Speculation to Prefetch Data in a Concurrent Multithreaded Processor', International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 2003.

• Workshops:
  • Ying Chen, Simon Y. Chen, 'Cost-Driven Hybrid Configuration Prefetching for Partial Reconfigurable Coprocessor ', 14th Reconfigurable Archiectures Workshop (RAW 2007), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Long Beach, California, USA, March, 2007
  • Dennis Abts, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja 'Heuristics for Complexity-Effective Verification of a Cache Coherence Protocol Implementation', Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design held in conjunction with the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 2005.
  • Ying Chen, Dennis Abts, and David J. Lilja, 'State Pruning for Test Vector Generation for a Multiprocessor Cache Coherence Protocol', International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP), Geneva, Switzerland, June 2004.
  • Resit Sendag, Ying Chen, and David J. Lilja, 'The Effect of Executing Mispredicted Load Instructions in a Speculative Multithreaded Architecture', 6^th Workshop on Multithreaded Execution, Architecture and Compilation (MTEAC-6), held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2002.

• Book Chapters:
  • Ying Chen, Jing Bai, '450 Questions of Modern Science' (chapters for biomedical engineering), Science Popularization Publishing House, Beijing, China, Jun. 1999.

• Ph.D. Dissertation
  • Ying Chen, ‘The Interaction Between Architecture Design and Lower Level Design In Both Design and Verification Processes’, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, Jul. 2005.

Research Projects/Interests ::

• Microarchitecture-aware design of pipelined interconnects
• Hardware verification methodology
• Reconfigurable computing
• Multithreaded architecture/Multiprocessor
• Memory systems

Education ::

• Ph.D., Laboratory for Advanced Research in Computing Technology and Compilers (ARCTic Labs), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 2005
• M.S., Laboratory for Advanced Research in Computing Technology and Compilers (ARCTic Labs), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 2002
• B.S., Electrical Engineering Department (major: Biomedical Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing. 2000

Professional Activities ::

Program committee member & session chiar, 15th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW), April 14-15, 2008, Miami, Florida, USA

Session chair, The 2007 International Conference on Information Computing and Automation (ICICA'07), December 20-22, 2007, Chengdu, China

Referee Services:

• Journals
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEE Proc. Computers & Digital Techniques
  • International Journal of Modeling and Simulation.
  • IPSI BgD
• Conferences
  • International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
  • IEEE International Symposium on circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

• IEEE
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Women in Engineering
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Useful Links ::

• SimpleScalar
• SPEC Benchmarks
• WWW Computer Architecture
• Sigda

last updated: 03/28/2008