SLD:: System Level Design Group @ CMU

• New: 2012 International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) Best Paper Award - P. Bogdan, S. Jain, R. Tornero, R. Marculescu
• New: 2012 D.O. Pederson Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems - U. Ogras, P. Bogdan, R. Marculescu
• 2011 IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Trans. on VLSI Best Paper Award - U. Ogras, R. Marculescu, D. Marculescu, E.-G. Jung
• 2010 Chen-Ling Chou won a Best Poster Award in the PhD Student Forum at the 15th ASPDAC held Jan. 18–21 in Taiwan.
• 2007 Featuring Most Influential Papers of 10 Years - Marculescu and Hu Selected for DATE Book
• 2006 IWWAN Best Student Paper Award - J.-C. Kao, R. Marculescu
• 2005 IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Trans. on VLSI Best Paper Award - G. Varatkar, R. Marculescu
• 2003 DATE Best Paper Award - J. Hu, R. Marculescu
• 2003 ASPDAC Best Paper Award - T. Dumitras, S. Kerner, and R. Marculescu
• 2001 DATE Best Paper Award - R. Marculescu, A. Nandi
• Winner of the annual college awards 2002 Radu Marculescu – Ladd Research Award

• Tutorial @ ASPLOS 2012: Power Management of Multicore Systems: Challenges, Approaches, and Recent Developments
• Keynote Speaker: Radu Marculescu, Design and Optimization of Thousand-core Systems, IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC 2011
• Keynote Speaker: Radu Marculescu, Workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms (W3), DATE 2011
• General Co-Chair: Radu Marculescu, International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip 2011 (NOCS2011)

We are looking for top candidates to join our research group (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~sld/) as Research Assistants starting Spring or Fall 2012. Exceptional candidates with Ph.D. recently completed will also be considered for a Post-doctoral position.

Main responsibilities are related to two existing projects in the areas of embedded and cyber-physical systems: First, a project on power management and optimization of massively integrated multicore platforms where communication happens via the network-on-chip approach. The main goal of this proposal is to address the fundamental issues of designing effective and highly scalable control algorithms for power and thermal management in multi-domain multicore systems.

Second, a project on modeling and simulation of dense networks of bacteria swarms for biological applications. The main goal of this project is to characterize the bacteria network formation and fragmentation taking place in a 3D space, gain insight into dense network design, and finally provide guidelines for the fabrication of such swarms in for a specific application related to drug delivery or health monitoring.

For Research Assistant, candidates should have at least Bachelor's degree (preferably a Master's degree) in a relevant area. Excellent analytical and communication skills in English speaking and writing are required. For Post-Doc positions, candidates should have a Ph.D. degree in computer science/engineering or another relevant field (e.g., applied mathematics, operational research, physics, systems/computational biology), experience with C/C++/Matlab software development. Research experience in systems and/or control theory and experience in using FPGAs/GPUs will provide an added advantage.

Interested candidates should submit their resume and questions to Prof. Radu Marculescu at radum[at]ece.cmu.edu.

• Guest Co-Editor: Radu Marculescu, Special issue on Network-on-Chip Architectures and Design Methodologies 2011 in Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO).
• Guest Co-Editor: Radu Marculescu, Special Section on Networks-on-Chips 2009 in IEEE Transactions on COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN of Integrated Circuits and Systems. More info is available here.
• Guest Co-Editor: Radu Marculescu, Special Issue on Design and Test of Interconnects for Multicore Chips 2008 in IEEE Design & Test of Computers. More info is available here.
• Guest Editor: Radu Marculescu, Introduction to the Special Section on Networks-on-Chip 2008 in IEEE Transactions on Computers. More info is available here.

• Keynote speaker: Radu Marculescu, Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) for the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-42) December 12, 2009.
• Probabilistic Approaches for Communication-Centric Design at Nanoscale - Special session with Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Borivoje Nikolic (UC Berkeley) at the Intl. Conf. on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES-ISSS), Salzburg, Austria, Oct. 2007.
• Power, Energy, Reliability Issues in Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) - Joint tutorial with Axel Jantsch (KTH) and Luca Benini (Bologna Univ.) at the Intl. Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS), Princeton, NJ , May 2007.
• Communication, Complexity, and Criticality Issues in Designing Silicon Networks - Special session with Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich (Germany), March 2006.

• Distinguished ACM Speaker: Radu Marculescu.
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  • Recent talks in 2009: Allegheny College, Meadville, PA., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland), Technical Univ. of Munich (Germany), Univ. of Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany), Univ. of Karlsruhe (Germany), Univ. of Sevilla (Spain), and Univ. of Timisoara (Romania)
• CMU project redefines network design - Interview with Richard Goering for SCDsource Newsletter