Dr. Vikram Jandhyala is Professor and Chair and Director of ACE Lab at UW EE. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a NASA inventor award, an outstanding research advisor award from UW EE, and graduate research awards from IEEE Microwave Society and the University of Illinois. He has published more than 150 papers and is founder of Nimbic (formerly Physware), a venture-funded startup in electronic design automation. He is also a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow. His research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, SRC, WRF, NASA, LLNL, DoD, SBIRs, and several industrial sponsors. His research interests include fast electromagnetic simulation, physics based simulation, power and signal integrity, high dimensional design space exploration, synthesis and optimization, variability and statistical modeling, multicore and distributed parallel algorithms, secure and scalable scientific computing on public clouds and graph-diffusion algorithms.
Associate Director
Dr. Arun V. Sathanur received the M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 with emphasis on communication and signal processing and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2009. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals and conferences. He was a recipient of the Intel PhD Fellowship award in 2008 and the ECTC travel award. Between 2010 and 2012, Arun worked as a software engineer at the computational lithography group at Intel, Hillsboro, OR and at Berkeley Design Automation – a circuit simulation start-up. His research interests include high dimensional statistics and optimization and applications to circuits and electromagnetic systems and secure and scalable scientific computation. In his spare time he loves to cook, hike and contemplate on the nature of human mind and consciousness.
Technology Commercialization Associate
Steve Cathcart received the B.S. degree in Physics and the M.S. degree in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology in1980 and 1982 respectively. Steve started his research career while a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and working at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). After two years at GTRI he spent the following 15 years working for Digital Communications Associates, Autodesk, Microsoft and two startup companies in software, systems, communications, graphics and hardware design and engineering. Currently he is the Technology Commercialization Associate for the Applied Computational Engineering (ACE) lab, department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. As the CEO and cofounder of the startup company, VIXIM, he seeks to commercialize the latent technology from ACE Lab, UWEE.
Researchers
Dr. Miao Sui received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2006, and his Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing at Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, BUAA), Beijing, China, in 2011. His Ph.D. thesis focused on numerical and high-frequency techniques in electromagnetic scattering and diffraction as well as their applications in radar target signature analysis and radar imaging. He visited the Temasek Laboratories of National University of Singapore as a summer intern in 2011. Currently, he is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the ACE lab, UW EE. His research interests include fast algorithms of computational electromagnetics and cloud computing.
Wei Cui obtained the B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Fudan University, China in 2008. He began his graduate studies at Washington State University and received the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 working on fast modeling and simulation of MEMS gyroscopes with feedback control. He is currently pursuing MSEE and PhD ME at ACE lab and focuses on the statistical analysis, sensitivity analysis, optimization and supervised learning for high-dimensional EM systems. Besides doing the research, he also likes swimming, reading, cooking and cycling.
Andrei Khlopotin received the B.E. degree from Moscow State Aviation Institute, in 1999 and his M.S. and M.B.A from Portland State University, in 2002. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the ACE lab, UW EE. His research interests include multiscale applications for electrical modeling. He worked with Tektronix as an Engineering Co-op (2001-2002) and has been working at Intel as a Design Engineer (2005-present).
Chuanjia Xing received his B.S. degree from Shandong University in 2008 and M.S. degree in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2011, both in China. In September 2011, he joined the ACE lab at UW EE and he is currently pursuing his PhD degree. His research interest includes electromagnetic theory and application, with special attention on the application of Green’s function method in large-scale graph and social network field, such as PageRank.
Albert Yu received the B.S. degree from Rice University, TX in 2007 and M.S. from Baylor University, TX in 2011. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the ACE lab, UW EE. His research interests include developing secure, cloud-based numerical computations and optimization. He has completed internships at the Applied Research Laboratory, PA in 2009-2011.
Dr. Vikram Jandhyala is Professor and Chair and Director of ACE Lab at UW EE. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a NASA inventor award, an outstanding research advisor award from UW EE, and graduate research awards from IEEE Microwave Society and the University of Illinois. He has published more than 150 papers and is founder of Nimbic (formerly Physware), a venture-funded startup in electronic design automation. He is also a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow. His research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, SRC, WRF, NASA, LLNL, DoD, SBIRs, and several industrial sponsors. His research interests include fast electromagnetic simulation, physics based simulation, power and signal integrity, high dimensional design space exploration, synthesis and optimization, variability and statistical modeling, multicore and distributed parallel algorithms, secure and scalable scientific computing on public clouds and graph-diffusion algorithms.
Dr. Arun V. Sathanur received the M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 with emphasis on communication and signal processing and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2009. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals and conferences. He was a recipient of the Intel PhD Fellowship award in 2008 and the ECTC travel award. Between 2010 and 2012, Arun worked as a software engineer at the computational lithography group at Intel, Hillsboro, OR and at Berkeley Design Automation – a circuit simulation start-up. His research interests include high dimensional statistics and optimization and applications to circuits and electromagnetic systems and secure and scalable scientific computation. In his spare time he loves to cook, hike and contemplate on the nature of human mind and consciousness.
Steve Cathcart received the B.S. degree in Physics and the M.S. degree in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology in1980 and 1982 respectively. Steve started his research career while a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and working at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). After two years at GTRI he spent the following 15 years working for Digital Communications Associates, Autodesk, Microsoft and two startup companies in software, systems, communications, graphics and hardware design and engineering. Currently he is the Technology Commercialization Associate for the Applied Computational Engineering (ACE) lab, department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. As the CEO and cofounder of the startup company, VIXIM, he seeks to commercialize the latent technology from ACE Lab, UWEE.
