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Frank Vahid, Professor Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering College of Engineering University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 Office: ENGR2 328, Lab: ENGR2 464 (951) 827-4710, fax: 827-4643, vahid AT cs.ucr.edu Chair, Faculty of the College of Engineering, UCR Associate Director, UC Irvine Center for Embedded Computer Systems

Research

eBlocks   Warp Processors   Pubs+Talks   Bio   CV   CODES/ISSS'08 Highly-Cited Ideas Data

Books

Digital Design / VHDL for Digital Design / Verilog for Digital Design (Wiley, 2006/2007/2007) Homeschooling: A Path Rediscovered for Socialization, Education, and Family (Lulu.com 2008)       (Recent homeschooling article in UCR Magazine) How to Be a Good Graduate Student (Lulu.com 2007) Embedded System Design (Wiley, 2001)

Teaching/Service

My Courses   UCR Course Sched.   Catalog Homeschooling : Answers to the most frequent questions asked of us. Student-projects VHDL tutorial   Synopsys intro

Conferences

Main CAD:	ISSS/CODES   DAC   ICCAD   DATE   ISLPED   CASES   FCCM   FPGA   FPL'06
eBlock-related:	SECON   SenSys   CHI   UBICOMP   HCII   IASTED-HCI
Others:	ISVLSI   CICC   ISPD   GLSVLSI   ASIC/SOC   ASP-DAC   ICCD   MICRO   HPCA   ISCA'06   LCTES   RSP   ISCAS   DA confs   Arch. confs   Conference ratings

Journals

TVLSI   TCAD   TECS (Embedded Comp.)   TODAES (Design Automation)   TACO (Archit. and Code Opt.)   DAES (Design Autom. of Embedded Sys.)   D&T   CAL   TC   Computer   JILP   UC-MICRO   IEEE Digital Lib.

Handy references

Google scholar (paper research) How Stuff Works (AWESOME site) Wikipedia (Surprisingly good open-source free encyclopedia) Embedded Systems Programming Mag. UCR Melvyl   CiteSeer   SIGDA Proceedings   ISLPED Proceedings   ITRS My favorite magazines:    Economist   Discover   Scientific American

Miscellaneous

Baha'i Faith Some advice to college students regarding spending sufficient time on their studies. Links on college California Homeschool Network In memory of my family's 6th member, Vahid Aminian, 1962-2000. Forever a part of us. The Letter that Changed My Family's Life

Students

Current:	Ann Gordon-Ross (PhD)   Greg Stitt (PhD)   David Sheldon (PhD)   Ryan Mannion (PhD)   Scott Sirowy (PhD)   Kris Miller (MS)
Past PhD:	Susan Lysecky - PhD CS&E 2006, now Asst Prof. of ECE at Univ. of Arizona Roman Lysecky - PhD CS&E 2005, now Asst Prof. of ECE at Univ. of Arizona Chuanjun Zhang - PhD EE 2004, now Asst. Prof. at Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City Tony Givargis - PhD CS 2001, now Asst. Prof. at UC Irvine Enoch Hwang - PhD CS 1999, now Assoc. Prof. at La Sierra Univ.
Past MS:	Shawn Nemetebakshi(MS CS 2005)   Kelly Downey (MS EE 2004)   Brian Grattan (MS EE 2002)    Weijun Zhang - M.S. EE 2001, at a San Jose startup synthesizing graphics chips    Rilesh Patel - M.S. CS 2001, at Aristo Technologies (synthesis)   Deepa Varghese - M.S. CS 1999, at Motorola.   Puneet Mehra - B.S. CS 1999, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley   Shannon Tauro - B.S. CS 1999, M.S. graduate from UC Irvine, now a UCI lecturer    Linus Tauro - M.S. CS 1996, at QuickLogic in Irvine (synthesis)    Thuy Le - M.S. CS 1996    Roseley Ng - M.S. CS 1995    William Kang - M.S. CS 1995

"Be good to the people in your life; if anything really matters, they do." -- FV

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