Here is some information on past and present members of the Embedded Systems Group.

Current Members

Wayne Wolf

Jiang Xu

Chang Hong Lin

Jason Schlessman

Senem Velipasalar

Shengqi Yang

Chia-Han Lee

Chen-Yao Chen

Ahmed Abdalla

Kelvin Lin (post-doc)

Wayne Wolf's Ph.D. graduates

Andres Takach, An Automata Model for the High-Level Specification and Synthesis of Digital Circuits and Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August, 1993. Now at Mentor Graphics.


Tien-Chien Lee, Behavioral Synthesis of Highly Testable Data Paths in VLSI Digital Circuits, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, September, 1993 (with Prof. Niraj Jha). Now at Incentia Design Systems.


Chun-Yao Huang, Joint Datapath/Controller Performance Optimization of VLSI Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August, 1994. Now at Incentia Design Systems.


Ti-Yen Yen, Hardware-Software Co-Synthesis of Distributed Embedded Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, June, 1996. Now at Quickturn.


Santanu Dutta, VLSI Issues and Architectural Trade-offs in Advanced Video Signal Processors, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, July, 1996. Now at Philips.


Michael Kozuch, Video Service Systems for Networked Video Libraries, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, July, 1997 (with Prof. Andrew Wolfe). Now at Intel Architecture Labs.


Yanbing Li, Hardware-Software Co-Synthesis of Embedded Real-Time Multiprocessors, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August, 1998. Now at Synopsys.


Hong Heather Yu, Digital Multimedia Library Indexing and Retrieval, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August, 1998. Now at Panasonic Research Labs.


Zhao Wu, Architectural Evaluation of Multi-Cluster Wide-Issue Video Signal Processors, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August, 1999. Now at JDS Uniphase.


David Rhodes, Real-Analysis, ALAP-Guided Synthesis of Real-Time Embedded Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August 1999. Now at Ft. Monmouth.


Jason Fritts, Architecture and Compiler Design Issues in Programmable Media Processors, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, January 2000. Now at Dept. of Computer Science, Washington University.


Haris Lekatsas, Code Compression for Embedded Processors, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August 2000. Now at NEC C&C Lab.


Yuanlong Wang, A Distributed Architecture and Crossbar Scheduling Algorithm for High Performance Switch Fabrics, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, May 2002. Now at Rambus.

Yuan Xie, Code Compression Architectures and Algorithms for Embedded Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, August 2002. Now at Pennsylvania State University.

Tiehan Lu, Algorithms and Architectures for Smart Cameras, August 2004. Now at Intel.