I am a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of California, San Diego. I have served as a Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Consultant at various System, Design, and Electronic Design Automation Companies. I got my Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

Honors and Awards

• NCR Best Teaching Award, School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 1991.
• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, CAD Transactions Best Paper Awards, 1997, 2002.
• IEEE Fellow, 2000.
• IBM Faculty Awards, 2004, 2006, 2007.
• Honorary Appointment as a Guest Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 2002-2008.
• Runner Up of Best Poster Award, Research Expo, School of Engineering, UCSD, L. Zhang, High Performance Current-Mode Differential Logic, out of 51 posters in Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Feb. 23, 2007.
• Best Poster Award, Research Expo, School of Engineering, UCSD, A. Shayan-Arani, X. Hu, Power Distribution Design for 3D Integration, out of 60 posters in Computer Science and Engineering Dept, Feb. 19, 2009.
• Distinguished Faculty Award, UJIMA Network, UC San Diego, 2013.
• Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego, 2014.
• Cadence Academic Collaboration Award, 2016.
• ACM/IEEE ASPDAC Prolific Author Award, 2020.

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