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Welcome to VSCLAB at UC Riverside

VLSI System Computing Lab (VSCLAB) is lead by Prof. Sheldon Tan, he is a Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bourns College of Engineering.  Dr. Tan is also a cooperating faculty member (co-faculty) of the Computer Science and Engineering department. Here are his latest curriculum vitae and short biography and my publication list

Dr. Tan is also the associate director for the Computer Engineering Program at Bourns College of Engineering.

In addition, Dr. Tan is the Editor in Chief (EIC) of Integration, The VLSI Journal, which is one of the primary journals in the VLSI design and CAD/design automation areas.

VSCLAB Recent Research Highlights:

Current research areas

  • Machine and deep learning for VLSI reliability modeling and optimization
  • Advanced VLSI design techniques for machine and deep learnings
  • VLSI long-term reliability, resilient systems, fault tolerant computing,  reliability-aware design and management at circuit and system levels
  • Machine learning based thermal modeling, optimization and dynamic thermal management at circuit, chip and board levels
  • Parallel computing and  analysis on heterogeneous and accelerator-rich (GPUs) platforms
  • Statistic modeling and optimization for VLSI systems

Latest News from VSCLAB

Ph.D. students Maliha Tasnim and Yibo Liu graduated

Ph.D. students Maliha Tasnim and Yibo Liu successfully defensed their thesis and graduated from VSCLAB during the summer 2024. Best wishes for their future endeavor!

Ph.D. Students from VSCLAB received industry intern offers for summer 2024

Ph.D. student Lamichhane will work for AMD for reliability related project during the summer 2024. He will join AMD for a full time job after graduation. Ph.D. student Jincong Lu will work for NXP semiconductor for reliability related project for...

Yibo's work on stochastic computing for divider design published in TCAD

This work, which mainly developed by PhD student Yibo Liu and Shuyuan Yu, developed a new stochastic computing framework for performing hardware based division operation for fixed point numbers for the first time. They applied so-called counting-based stochastic computing technique...

Dr. Sheldon Tan Receives $500K NSF Grant to Continue Electromigration Research in VLSI Chip Design

Dr. Sheldon Tan has just been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation's CISE CCF Core Small program (CCF-2305437). The project, titled "SHF:Small: Learning-based Fast Analysis and Fixing for Electromigration Damage," is funded with $500,000 and spans from...

The job openings in VSCLAB

My group now has 3-4 Ph.D. openings for the Fall 2020. Students with electrical engineering, computer science, physics and applied mathematics backgrounds are welcome to apply. Students with M.S. degrees are preferred. Full financial supports will be provided for qualified students.