Wenjing Rao
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
Building & Room:
1036 SEO
Address:
851 S. Morgan St, MC 154, Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Research Interests
VLSI test, Fault-tolerance, Reliability, Novel computation paradigms in emerging nanoelectronic systems, VLSI Hardware Security, Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Selected Publications
S. Khaleghi and W. Rao, “Hardware Obfuscation Using Strong PUFs”, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2018
J. Xu, S. Banerjee and W. Rao, “The Existence of Universally Agreed Fairest Semi-Matching in Any Given Bipartite Graph”, Theoretical Computer Science, 2017
S. Banerjee and W. Rao, “A Local Reconfiguration based Scalable Fault Tolerant Many-Processor Array”, IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), 2017
S. Khaleghi, P. Vinella, S. Banerjee and W. Rao, “An STT-MRAM based Strong PUF”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH), 2016
S. Banerjee, and W. Rao, “A General Approach for Defect Tolerant Parallel Prefix Adder Design” IEEE Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2016
S. Banerjee, and W. Rao, “On the Conditions of Guaranteed k-Fault Tolerant Systems Supporting On-The-Fly Repairs” IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015
S. Khaleghi, K. Zhao, and W. Rao, “IC Piracy Prevention via Design Withholding and Entanglement”, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), 2015
Y. Su and W. Rao, “An Integrated Framework Towards Defect-Tolerant Logic Implementation onto Nanocrossbars”, IEEE Transaction on Computer Aided Design, Volume 33, Number 1, 2014
W. Rao, C. Yang, R. Karri, and A. Orailoglu “Towards Future Systems with Nanoscale Devices: Overcoming the Reliability Challenge”, IEEE Computer, Volume 44, Number 2, 2011
Notable Honors
2017, Harold A. Simon Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Engineering, UIC
2012, NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2008, Ph. D. Dissertation Award, University of California, San Diego
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 2008
B.S. Computer Science, Peking University, 2001