Shu Yan

Ph.D candidate

VLSI CAD Group
Computer Engineering Group
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University

Advisor:
Prof. Weiping Shi
Prof. Vivek Sarin

Mail Address:
309 Ball St. #2032
College Station, TX 77840

Email:
shu@ee.tamu.edu

Office:
Room 111
Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840

Tel:
979-862-9233 (Home)
979-845-9578 (Office)

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, 1998
  
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, 2001
  
• Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, December 2005

Publications:

• S.Yan, V. Sarin and W. Shi, “Fast 3D Capacitance Extraction by Inexact Factorization and Reduction“, IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD),  to appear.

• S. Yan, V. Sarin and W. Shi, "Sparse Transformations and Preconditioners for Capacitance Extraction", IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol. 24, No. 9, Sept. 2005, 1420-1426, (best paper award candidate).
  
  
• S. Yan, V. Sarin and W. Shi, "Fast Capacitance Extraction Using Inexact Factorization", Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging (EPEP), Oct 25-27, 2004.
  
  
• S. Yan, V. Sarin and W. Shi, "Preconditioned Hierarchical 3-D Capacitance Extraction with Multiple Dielectrics", Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 7-11, 2004.
  
  
• S. Yan, J. Liu and W. Shi, "Improving Boundary Element Methods for Parasitic Extraction", Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2003.