Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside. 1999.
• M.S. in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. 1985.
• B.Sc. Honours in Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 1982.

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Principal Research Interests

My main research area is in the design of microprocessor and microcontroller circuits, how to optimize them for power consumption, speed, resource usage and size reduction, and the application of these controller circuits in embedded systems. I am also interested in developing mobile apps, the human-computer interface, and how best to use these mobile devices. In March of 2015, I was invited as a visiting professor to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China for four months to teach their microprocessor design course using my Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design textbook. The course was taught in English with

40 enthusiastic and eager-to-learn students.

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Academic Interests/Research Area:

• Embedded microprocessor and microcontroller design
• Hardware/software co-design
• Digital logic circuit design
• Robotics and automation
• Mobile computing
• Computer architecture
• Internet of Things

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AWARDS

• Congressionally Directed Grant, 2006, 95,000ドル.

• Altera University Program grant, 2001 - 2007, 30,000ドル in hardware and software.
• "eZ80 Standalone Single Board Computer," First prize, Zilog circuit design contest, April 2002.
• Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, May 1995.

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Representative Publications

1. "Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design with Interfacing" (Textbook) Cengage, 2017, 2nd Ed.

2. "Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design with Interfacing" in Chinese (Textbook) Cengage, 2017.
3. "Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design with VHDL" (Textbook, 588 pages) Thomson publisher, 2006. ISBN: 0-534-46593-5
4. "Build a VGA Monitor Controller," Circuit Cellar, November 2004.
5. "Building a Custom System-On-A-Chip," International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, Las Vegas, June 2004.
6. "Power Reduction for Embedded Dedicated Microprocessor," Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences, Hawaii, January 2004.
7. "Where is the Hardware?," Circuit Cellar, January 2003.
8. "FSMD Functional Partitioning for Low Power," E. Hwang, F. Vahid, & Y. Hsu, Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 1999. Sponsored by IEEE.