Pai H. Chou

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
HSSoE and Center for Embedded Computer Systems
University of California, Irvine
3219 Engineering Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-2625 USA
phone (949) UCI-EBAY (824-3229), fax (949) 824-3203
email: phchou @ uci.edu

Research

Overview
Publications
Talks
Rappit
B#
mini-FDPM
DuraNode
Eco
OMA
IMPACCT

Past courses

S'09 112L, 295
W'09 113, 295
S'08 112L, 295
W'08 12, 295
F'07 215, 295
(on sabbatical F06-S07)
Summer'06 295
S'06 112L, 295
W'06 12, 295
F '05 215, 295
S'05 112L, 295
W '05 129, 295
F '04 215
(below are "ECE"#)
S '04 132L
Fall '03 12, 235
S'03: 238, 295
F'02: 12, 235,fresh. sem
S'02: 132L
W'02: 145
F'01: 235
S'01: 132L
W'01: 145, 238
A '00: 235
S '00: 132L, 238
W '00: 298

Fall 2009

  • EECS 129A: Senior Design Projects (with S. Jenks)
    New lab: ICS2 Room 162
  • EECS 295: Paralle, Distributed, Embedded Systems
    New Room: ICS 209

Research

  • Overview
  • Publications
  • NSF CAREER Award
  • Talks with slides
  • Topics:
    • Hardware/software codesign of embedded systems, system synthesis, distributed real-time systems
    • Low-power system design
    • Wireless sensing systems, medical devices, system profilers

Projects

Wireless sensor applications

PipeTect: (NIST, with OCSD, SAWPA, IRWD. April 2009 - March 2012)
Monitoring underground water pipelines (fresh water, waste water)
Smart Sediment Grains: (NSF, with D. Foster, UNH. Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2012)
Using Eco to measure motion of particles under water.

Wireless sensor platforms

Eco:
world's smallest (1cm3) expandable wireless sensor for monitoring spontaneous motion of premature infants
Winner of ISLPED 2004 low power design contest
Everlast:
Solar-powered supercapacitor-operated wireless sensor node
Winner of ISLPED 2005 low power design contest
AmbiMax: (energy harvesting subsystem)
Modular, autonomous maximum power point tracking system with supercapacitor storage
DuraNode:
structural health monitoring for civil engineering over 802.11b
Winner of ISLPED 2004 low power design contest
Mini-FDPM, now renamed HBS (Handheld Breast Scanner)
non-invasive breast cancer detector

Power and Environment emulation and profiling instruments

B#:
battery emulator & power profiler
S# extension for solar panels
Winner of ISLPED 2003 low power design contest
EmPro:
Superset of B#, performs sensor input emulation

Tool and software architecture

Rappit:
Host assisting programming environment for synthesis of ultra-lightweight scripting engines for adaptive embedded systems
Tapper:
ultra-lightweight scripting engine with host assisted execution

Projects (exploratory)

HTML/PDF form generator
Data/Process grabber
Sensor network visualizer
Sensor network protocols
Extended regular expression for Kanji

Previous Projects

IMPACCT (phase 1), ImpacctPro (phase 2):
system-level modeling, scheduling, simulation, profiling tool for power-aware designs
Chinook (completed while at Univ. of Washington/ no longer active)

People

Current Ph.D. Students (in order of joining)

  • Chongjing Chen (M.S. '06, candidacy)
  • Jinsik Kim (candidacy)
  • Vahid Salmani (joined Spring '08)
  • Hyeoungho Bae (joined Fall '08)
  • Sehwan Kim (joined Fall '08)
  • Liang Pan (MS winter '08; joined PhD (ICS) spring '08)
  • Eun-bae Yoon (MS)
  • Chang-ik Lee (MS)

Former students -- Ph.D.

  • Jinfeng Liu, (Ph.D.'05 awarded; now at Synopsys)
  • Dexin Li, (Ph.D.'06 awarded; now at nVidia)
  • Keun Sik No (candidacy'04, Ph.D. Spring '07 awarded; now postdoc at BLI)
  • Chulsung Park, (M.S.& candidacy'05, Ph.D.Summer '07 awarded; now at Apple)
  • Seung-Mok Yoo (Ph.D. Fall'07 awarded; now at ETRI)
  • Jiwon Hahn (M.S.'03, candidacy'06, Ph.D. summer '08 awarded; now at Raytheon)

Former students -- M.S. (not including others above)

Professional Activities

Personal interest

How-To

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