2008

(C58) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou

TurboCap: Batteryless, Supercapacitor-based Power Supply for Mini-FDPM, to appear, in Proc. 3rd European Symposium on Supercapacitors and Applications (ESSCAP'08), Rome, Italy, November 6-7, 2008.

(J10) Keun-Sik No, Richard Kwong, Pai H. Chou, and Albert Cerussi,

``Design and Test of a Miniature Broadband Frequency Domain Photon Migration Instrument,'' to appear, Journal of Biomedical Optics, SPIE, Accepted for publication.

(C57) Chongjing Chen and Pai H. Chou

``EcoDAQ: A Case Study of a Densely Distributed Real-Time System for High Data Rate Wireless Data Acquisition,'' to appear, in Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2008. Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Acceptance rate: 33 regular papers + 12 short papers out of 125 submissions)

(J9) Farhan Simjee and Pai H. Chou

``Efficient Charging of Supercapacitors for Extended Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Nodes,'' in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2008. pages 1526--1536.

2007

(C56) P. H. Chou, Y.C. Chung, C.T. King, M.J. Tsai, B.J. Lee, and T.Y. Chou,

``Wireless Sensor Networks for Debris Flow Observation,'' in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction (ICUDR), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-29, 2007.

(C55) Radha Guha, Nader Bagherzadeh, and Pai Chou,

``An Efficient Placement Algorithm for Run-time Reconfigurable Embedded Systems,'' in Proceedings of the IASTED Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS) 2007 Conference, Cambridge, MAssachusetts, USA, November 19-21, 2007. [abstract]

(C54) Jiwon Hahn and Pai H. Chou,

``Buffer Optimization and Dispatching Scheme for Embedded Systems with Behavioral Transparency,'' in Proceedings of the 7th ACM & IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2007), October 1--3, 2007, part of ESWeek. Salzburg, Austria, pages 94-103. [acm]

(*C54*) Keun Sik No, Qiang Xie, Richard Kwong, Albert Cerussi, Bruce J. Tromberg, Pai H. Chou,

``In Vivo Breast Cancer Measurement with a Handheld Laser Breast Scanner,'' to appear, in the 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 5-8, 2007. Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain Hotel. => this paper was accepted but was forced to withdraw when none of the co-authors could present the paper at the conference.

(J8) Bita Gorjiara, Nader Bagherzadeh, and Pai H. Chou,

``Ultra-Fast and Efficient Algorithm for Energy Optimization by Gradient-based Stochastic Voltage and Task Scheduling,'' in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2007. Article 39. 21 pages [acm]

(J7) Jinfeng Liu and Pai H. Chou,

``Idle Energy Minimization by Mode Sequence Optimization,'' in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2007. Article 38. [acm]

(C53) Bita Gorjiara, Pai H. Chou, and Nader Bagherzadeh,

``Integrating Power Management into Distributed Real-time Systems at Minimum Implementation Cost,'' in Proc. ASPDAC, Yokohama, Japan, Jan. 23-26, 2007. pp. 872--887.

2006

(C52) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou, Ying Bai, Robert Matthews, and Andrew Hibbs,

``An Ultra-Wearable, Wireless, Low Power ECG Monitoring System,'' in Proc. IEEE BioCAS, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2006. The British Library, London.

(C51) Keun Sik No, Qiang Xie, Richard Kwong, and Pai H. Chou,

``HBS: a Handheld Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration with Full Heterodyne,'' in Proc. IEEE BioCAS, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2006. The British Library, London.

(C50) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou,

eCAM: Ultra Compact, High Data-Rate Wireless Sensor Node with a Miniature Camera, in Proc. ACM SenSys, November 1-3, 2006. pp. 359--360.

(C49) Vijay Raghunathan and Pai H. Chou,

``Design and Power Management of Energy Harvesting Embedded Systems,'' in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Tegernsee, Germany, October 4--6, 2006. pp. 369--374.

(C48) Farhan Simjee and Pai H. Chou

``Everlast: Long-life, Supercapacitor-operated Wireless Sensor Node,'' in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Tegernsee, Germany, October 4--6, 2006. pp. 197--202.

(C47) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou,

``AmbiMax: Efficient, Autonomous Energy Harvesting System for Multiple-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes,'' in Proc. Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Sept 25-28, 2006, Reston, VA, USA. pp. 168--177.

(C46) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou,

``EmPro: an Environment/Energy Emulation and Profiling Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' in Proc. Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Sept 25-28, 2006, Reston, VA, USA. pp. 158--167.

(C45) Pai H. Chou,

``Challenges on Low-Power Platform Design for Real-World Wireless Sensing Applications,'' in Proc. International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT), Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 26--28, 2006.

(C44) Qiang Xie, Jinfeng Liu, and Pai H. Chou,

``Tapper: A Lightweight Scripting Engine for Highly Constrained Wireless Sensor Nodes,'' in Proc. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06), April 19-21, 2006. Nashville, TN. 14% (acceptance rate) (ACM Digital Library) pp. 342--349.

(C43) Chulsung Park and Pai H. Chou,

``Eco: Ultra-Wearable and Expandable Wireless Sensor Platform,'' in Proc. Third International Workshop on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2006), April 3-5, 2006. MIT Media Lab. pp. 162--165.

(C42) Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou, and Yicun Sun,

``A Wearable Wireless Sensor Platform for Interactive Art Performance,'' in Proc. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2006), March 13-17, 2006. Pisa, Italy. pp. 52--59.

(C41) Masanobu Shinozuka, Chulsung Park, Pai Chou, and Yoshio Fukuda ,

``Real-Time Damage Localization by means of MEMS Sensors and Use of Wireless Data Transmission,'' to appear, in Proceedings of the Conference on Nonintrusive Inspection, Structures Monitoring, and Smart Systems for Homeland Security, as a part of the SPIE Symphosium on Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, Feb. 26 -- Mar. 2, 2006,  San Diego, CA.

2005

(C40) Pai H. Chou,

``Scriptable Systems: Towards Interactive Testing during Programming of Distributed Embedded Systems,'' in Proc. IEEE Electronic System Test Workshop, November 10--11, Austin TX, 2005.

(C39) Pai H. Chou and Chulsung Park,

"Energy Efficient Platform Designs for Real-World Wireless Sensing Applications", in Proc. International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2005), November 2005.

(J6) Keun-Sik No and Pai H. Chou,

``Mini-FDPM and Heterodyne Mini-FDPM: Handheld Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Detectors based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration,'' in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 52, No. 12, December 2005. pp. 2672--2685.

(C38) Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou, and Masanobu Shinozuka,

"DuraNode: Wireless Networked Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring,'' in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Irvine, CA, Oct. 31 -- Nov. 1, 2005

(C37) Jiwon Hahn, Qiang Xie, and Pai H. Chou

"Rappit: A Framework for the Synthesis of Host-Assisted Light-Weight Scripting Engines for Adaptive Embedded Systems", in Proc. International Conference on Hardware Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2005), Jersey City, NJ, USA, September 17--19, 2005. pp. 315--320.

(C36) Farhan Simjee and Pai H. Chou,

"Accurate Battery Lifetime Estimation Using High-Frequency Power Profile Emulation," in Proc. of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), San Diego, CA, August 8--10, 2005. pp. 307--310.

(C35) Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou, and Masanobu Shinozuka,

``DuraNet: Multimodal Sensor Network for Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring,'' in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Kyungju, Korea, July 21-23, 2005.

(C34) Dexin Li and Pai H. Chou,

"Application/Architecture Power Co-Optimization for Embedded Systems Powered by Renewable Sources," in Proceedings of the 42nd Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 13--17, 2005. pp. 618--623.

(C33) Chulsung Park, Jinfeng Liu, and Pai H. Chou,

"Eco: an Ultra-Compact Low-Power Wireless Sensor Node for Real-Time Motion Monitoring," in Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 25-27, 2005. UCLA. (44+24)/(213+63), or 24.6% acceptance rate. pp. 398--403.

(C32) H. Chung, C. Park, Q. Xie, P. H. Chou, M. Shinozuka,

"DuraNode: wireless network sensor for structural safety monitoring," in Proceedings of SPIE Nondestructive Detection and Measurement for Homeland Security III Conference, Vol. 5769, Aaron A. Diaz, A. Emin Aktan, H. Felix Wu, Steven R. Doctor, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Editors, San Diego, March 7--9, 2005. (presented March 8, 2005; published May 2005) pp. 70--79.

(J5) Chulsung Park, Jinfeng Liu, and Pai H. Chou,

"B#: a Battery Emulator and Power Profiling Instrument," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, March-April, 2005. pp. 150--159.

2004

(C31) Keun Sik No, Pai H. Chou,

"Mini-FDPM: a Handheld Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration," in Proc. IEEE BioCAS, Singapore, December 1--3, 2004. pp. 2.2-5 -- 2.2-8.

(C30) Jiwon Hahn, Dexin Li, Qiang Xie, Pai H. Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, David W. Jensen, Alan C. Tribble

"Power Reduction in JTRS Radios with ImpacctPro," in Proc. IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM), Monterey, CA, October 31 - November 3, 2004. CD-ROM proceedings. (acceptance rate not available; primary author with Ph.D. students, with honorary authorships given to industry collaborators)

(C29) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou

"Optimizing Mode Transition Sequences in Idle Intervals for Component-Level and System-Level Energy Minimization," in Proc. International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, November 7-11, 2004. pp.21--28. (primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C28) Bita Gorji-Ara, Pai Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh,

"An Efficient Voltage Scaling Algorithm for Complex SoCs with Few Number of Voltage Modes", in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design, (ISLPED), Newport Beach, August 9-11, 2004. pp. 381--386. (27% acceptance rate for regular papers, primary author with co-advised Ph.D. student)

(C27) Pai H. Chou, Dexin Li,

"Maximizing Efficiency of Solar-Powered Systems by Load Matching", in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED), Newport Beach, August 9-11, 2004. pp. 162--167. (27% acceptance rate for regular papers, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C26) Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou,

"Power Utility Maximization for Multiple-Supply Systems by a Load-Matching Switch", in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED), Newport Beach, August 9-11, 2004. pp. 168--173. (27% acceptance rate for regular papers, primary author with M.S. student)

(C25) Hung-Chi Chung, Tomoyuki Enomoto, Masanobu Shinozuka, Pai Chou, Chulsung Park, Isam Yokoi, and Shin Morishita,

Real Time Visualization of Structural Response with Wireless MEMS Sensors, in Proc. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13WCEE), Vancouver, BC., Canada, August 1-6, 2004. Paper No. 121. (CD-ROM proceedings) (secondary author)

(C24) Jinfeng Liu and Pai H. Chou,

Distributed Embedded Systems for Low Power: A Case Study, in Proc. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 26-30, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004. (CD-ROM proceedings) (31% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C23) Bita Gorji-Ara, Pai H. Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, Mehrdad Reshadi, and David Jensen,

Fast and Efficient Voltage Scheduling by Evolutionary Slack Distribution, in Proc. Asia South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Yokohama, Japan, January 2004. pp.659--662. (50% acceptance rate, primary author with co-advised Ph.D. student, with honorary authorships given to other Ph.D. student and industry collaborator)

2003

(C22) Jinfeng Liu and Pai H. Chou,

Energy Optimization of Distributed Embedded Processors by Combined Data Compression and Functional Partitioning, in Proc. International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 9-13, 2003. pp.201--208. (26% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C21) Pai H. Chou, Chulsung Park, Jae Park, Kien Pham, and Jinfeng Liu,

B#: a Battery Emulator and Profiling Instrument, in Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED), Seoul, Korea, August 2003. pp.288--293. (24% acceptance rate for regular papers, primary author with M.S. and Ph.D. students)
+ Winner of ISLPED 2003 Low Power Design

(C20) Dexin Li, Qiang Xie, Pai H. Chou,

Scalable Modeling and Optimization of Mode Transitions Based on Decoupled Power Management Architecture, in Proc. Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, CA, June 2003. pp. 119--124. (24% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C19) Dexin Li, Pai H. Chou and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Topology Selection for Energy Minimization in Embedded Networks, in Proc. Asia South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC'03), Kitakyushu, Japan, January 2003. pp. 693--696. (50% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

2002

(J4) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Communication Speed Selection and Functional Partitioning for Low-Energy On-Chip Networked Multiprocessors, to appear, IEEE Micro.

(C18) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Combined Functional Partitioning and Communication Speed Selection for Networked Voltage-Scalable Processors, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on System Synthesis, October 2002. pp. 14--19. (33% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C17) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Communication Speed Selection for Embedded Systems with Networked Voltage-Scalable Processors, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign (CODES'02), Estes Park, CO, May 2002. pp. 169--174. (primary author with Ph.D. student)

(J3) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou, and Nader Bagherzadeh,

"Power-Aware Task Motion for Enhancing Dynamic Range of Embedded Systems with Renewable Energy Sources,", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, 2002. pp. 84--99. (Primary contributor with Ph.D. student)

(J2) Pai H. Chou, Jinfeng Liu, Dexin Li, and Nader Bagherzadeh,

IMPACCT: Methodology and Tools for Power-Aware Embedded Systems, in Design Automation for Embedded Systems, Kluwer Design Automation of Embedded Systems, October 2002. pp. 205--232. (primary author with Ph.D. students) [our own draft] [final draft from Kluwer, $40]

(C16) Pai H. Chou,

Algorithm Education in Python, in Proc. Python 10 Conference, February 2002. pp.177--185.

(C15) Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou, and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Power-Aware Task Motion for Enhancing Dynamic Range of Embedded Systems with Renewable Energy Sources in Proceedings of the Workshop on Power Aware Computer Systems; in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, 2002. pp. 84--99. (primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C14) Dexin Li, Pai Chou, and Nader Bagherzadeh,

Mode Selection and Mode-Dependency Modeling for Power-Aware Embedded Systems, in Proc. 7th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC'02), January 2002. pp. 697--704. (42% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

+ Winner of Best Student Paper Award

2001

(C13) Jinfeng Liu, Pai Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, and Fadi Kurdahi,

"Power-Aware Scheduling under Timing Constraints for Mission-Critical Embedded Systems," in Proc. 38th Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2001. pp. 840--845. (39% acceptance rate, primary author with Ph.D. student)

(C12) Jinfeng Liu, Pai Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, and Fadi Kurdahi,

"A Constraint-based Application Model and Scheduling Techniques for Power-aware Systems", in, Proc. International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2001. pp. 153--158. (27% acceptance rate, primary author w/Ph.D. student)

1996--2000

(C11) Pai Chou and Gaetano Borriello,

"Synthesis and Optimization of Coordination Controllers for Distributed Embedded Systems," in Proc. 37th Design Automation Conference, Los Angeles, June 2000. pp. 410-415. (primary contributor, from a chapter in Ph.D. dissertation)

(C10) Pai Chou, Ross Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partridge, and Gaetano Borriello,

"IPChinook: an integrated IP-based design framework for distributed embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of the 36th Design Automation Conference, June 1999. pp. 44-49.

(C9) Pai Chou, Ken Hines, Kurt Partridge, and Gaetano Borriello,

"Control generation for embedded systems based on composition of modal processes,"

in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, November 1998. pp. 46-53. (29% acceptance rate)

(C8) Pai Chou, Gaetano Borriello,

"Modal processes: towards enhanced retargetability through control composition of distributed embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of the 35th Design Automation Conference, June 1998. pp. 88-93.

(C7) Pai Chou, Gaetano Borriello,

"An analysis-based approach to composition of distributed embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of Codes/CACHE, Seattle, WA, March 1998, pp. 3-7.

(C6) Pai Chou, Gaetano Borriello,

"Software architecture synthesis for retargetable real-time embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of Codes/CACHE, Braunschweig, Germany, March 1997, pp. 101-105.

1992--1995

(C5) Pai Chou, Ross Ortega, Gaetano Borriello,

"Interface co-synthesis techniques for embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of the International Conf. on Computer Aided Design, November 1995. pp. 280-287. (30% acceptance rate)

(C4) Pai Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Gaetano Borriello,

"Proceedings of the International Symposium on System Synthesis", Cannes, France, September 13-15, 1995. pp.22-27.

(C3) Pai Chou, Gaetano Borriello,

"Interval scheduling: fine grained code scheduling for embedded systems,"

in Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, June 1995. pp. 462--467.

(B1) Gaetano Borriello, Pai Chou, Ross B. Ortega,

"Embedded System Co-Design: Towards Portability and Rapid Integration,"

in Hardware/Software Co-Design, M.G. Sami and G. De Micheli, EDs., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. pp. 243-264.

(J1) Pai Chou, Elizabeth Walkup, Gaetano Borriello,

"Scheduling issues in the co-Synthesis of reactive real-time systems,"

IEEE Micro, August 1994, pp. 37-47.

(C2) Pai Chou, Gaetano Borriello,

"Software Scheduling in the Co-Synthesis of Reactive Real-Time Systems,"

in Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, June 1994, pp.1-4.

(C1) Pai Chou, Ross Ortega, Gaetano Borriello,

"Synthesis of the hardware/software interface in microcontroller-based systems,"

in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design, November 1992, pp. 488-495. (~25% acceptance rate)