Ken Mai
Assistant Professor – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 2005 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | 2121 Hamerschlag Hall |
| Telephone | (412)-268-8335 |
| Fax | (412)-268-1374 |
| kenmai@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~kenmai/ |
| Assistant | Judy Bandola |
Research Interests
With process technologies scaling into the nanometer regime, the underlying implementation technology increasingly affects architecture and circuit design. We must adapt and reinvent current designs to circumvent technology constraints (e.g. interconnect delay, device leakage, soft-errors, device mismatch) and to target emerging applications (e.g. sensor networks, computational biology). The key near-term challenge is to build compute systems that can efficiently achieve high-performance, yet remain economically feasible, general-purpose, and easy to program. In the long-term, with CMOS scaling approaching fundamental limits, the challenge will be to build efficient, high-performance, reliable computation systems from technology building blocks that may be radically different from those we use today.
My primary research interest is the circuit design of efficient, high-performance digital blocks (i.e. memories and functional units) in future generation technologies. Further, I'm interested in building tools to export VLSI-level design information and constraints to architectural-level design.
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Research Areas
Circuits/CAD/VLSI; Computer Systems
Keywords
Digital circuit design, computer architecture, memory design, reconfigurable computing
Education
PhD, 2005
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
MS, 1997
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
BS, 1993
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University