Ph.D. student Xuexin Liu, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. His thesis is titled Ò Parallel and Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Nanometer VLSI SystemsÓ. Congratulation on Xuexin . Xuexin is the 11th Ph.D. graduated from MSLAB. Xuexin will join Synopsys's IC compiler group after the graduation. We wish Xuexin the best in his future...