SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Math Journals

"Stochastic preconditioning for diagonally dominant matrices," Haifeng Qian and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1178-1204, 2008.

 

Engineering Journals

"Timing-aware power minimization via extended timing graph methods," Haifeng Qian and Emrah Acar, ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. pp. 318-326, 2007.

"Temperature-aware placement for SOCs," Jeng-Liang Tsai, Charlie Chung-Ping Chen, Guoqiang Chen, Brent Goplen, Haifeng Qian, Yong Zhan, Sung-Mo Kang, Martin D. F. Wong and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, no.8, pp. 1502-1518, 2006.

"Power grid analysis using random walks," Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1204-1224, 2005.

"Early-stage power grid analysis for uncertain working modes," Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 676-682, 2005.

"A phone-assistive device based on Bluetooth technology for cochlear implant users," Haifeng Qian, Philipos C. Loizou and Michael F. Dorman, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 282-287, 2003.

 

Engineering Conferences

"Clustering based pruning for statistical criticality computation under process variations," Hushrav D. Mogal, Haifeng Qian, Sachin S. Sapatnekar and Kiarash Bazargan, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 340-343, 2007.

"A hybrid linear equation solver and its application in quadratic placement," Haifeng Qian and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 905-909, 2005.

"A chip-level electrostatic discharge simulation strategy," Haifeng Qian, Joseph N. Kozhaya, Sani R. Nassif and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 315-318, 2004.

"Hierarchical random-walk algorithms for power grid analysis," Haifeng Qian and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Proceedings of the Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 499-504, 2004.

"Early-stage power grid analysis for uncertain working modes," Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Proceedings of International Symposium on Physical Design, pp. 132-137, 2004.

"The certainty of uncertainty: randomness in nanometer design," Hongliang Chang, Haifeng Qian and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Proceedings of PATMOS), E. Macii, V. Paliouras and O. Koufopavlou, ed., vol. 3254, pp. 36- 47, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2004 (Invited Paper).

"Random walks in a supply network," Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif and Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp. 93-98, 2003 (Best paper award).

 

Theses

Stochastic and Hybrid Linear Equation Solvers and their Applications in VLSI Design Automation, Ph.D. thesis, Haifeng Qian, University of Minnesota, 2006.

Bluetooth Receiver and Bandwidth-extension Algorithms for Telephone-assistive Applications, master's thesis, Haifeng Qian, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.

The Improvement of Logic Parameters Extraction System (LPE) and a 0.35 um Logic Parameter Library, bachelor's thesis, Haifeng Qian, Tsinghua University, 2000.

 

Literary

"Legend of Galaxy", Haifeng Qian, Science Fiction World (China), vol.12, 1999.

"Legend", Haifeng Qian, 1998.