Professor Pai H. Chou
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Center for Embedded Cyber-Physical Systems (CECS) 3219 Engineering Hall Irvine, CA 92697-2625 USA +1 (949) 824-3229 (UCI-EBAY), fax (949) 824-4152 [email protected] |
Research Interests
- embedded systems hardware and software, the Internet of Things
- low-power design and energy harvesting
- design tools and system modeling
Research
- Current Funding:
- (7/2014) NIH SBIR Phase 2 on ECG for Long-QT screening.
- (7/2015) NIH SBIR Phase 1 of BlueBox recorder
- (9/2015) NIH SBIR Phase 1 of system for asthma assessment
- Recent Projects
- NIST: Next Generation SCADA for Prevention and Mitigation of Water System Infrastructure Disaster (NIST: 4/09 – 3/13)
- Coastal underwater sediments tracking (NSF: 9/09 – 8/13)
- ECG Device for Long QT Syndrome Screening in Newborn (NIH: 7/12 – 6/13)
- Infant Sleep Environment Monitoring System (SEMS) for SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) (NIH: 7/12 – 6/13)
- Previous Projects
- DuraNode for structural health monitoring
- Mini-FDPM non-invasive breast cancer detector
- Energy harvesters: Ambimax, Everlast, DuraCap, EscaCap
- B# (B-sharp) battery emulator and power profiling instrument
- IMPACCT: Integrated Management of Power Aware Computation and Communication Technologies (DARPA: 2000-2004. PI: N. Bagherzadeh)
- Chinook (1992-1998) hardware/software co-synthesis system
- NSF CAREER Award (2005-2010)
Services
- Associate Chair for Computer Engineering (2015-2017)
- Chair of Computer Science and Engineering (2015-2016)
- TPC Member: ISLPED 2016-2017, DAC 2016-2017, CPSCom 2017, ICCE-Berlin
- General Chair, ISLPED 2013, (International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design), Beijing, China; and
- TPC Co-Chair, ISLPED 2012:
Redondo Beach, July 30-August 1, 2012. - Associate Editor, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (2008-2010), Springer DAEM (2005-)
- Associate Chair for Computer Engineering, UCI (2009,2010,2011)
ABET accreditation, Curriculum reform, Prelim scheduling, … - Faculty Advisor for IEEE Student Chapter, UCI (2010, 2011)
Awards
- 2015: Low Power Design Contest, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
- 2013: Low Power Design Contest, International Symposium on Low Power Electronic and Design (ISLPED): “Energy harvesting from anti-corrosion sources”
- 2007: DAC/ISSCC Design Contest Award: “HBS: a handheld breast cancer detector based on FDPM”
- 2006: Best Demo Award, IEEE SECON
- 2006: Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “AmbiMax: Efficient, Autonomous Energy Harvesting System for Multiple-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes”
- 2005: NSF CAREER Award, “Design Optimization and Quantitative Evaluation of Wireless Embedded Sensing Systems”
- 2005: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, UC Irvine
- 2005: Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “Everlast: Long-life, supercapacitor-operated Wireless Sensor Node,”
- 2004: Recognition of Service Award, ACM
- 2004, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “Eco: an Ultra-Compact Low-Power Wireless Sensor Node for Real-time Motion Monitoring”
- 2004, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “DuraNode: Wireless Sensor Node for Structural Health Monitoring”
- 2003, Low-Power Design Contest, ISLPED, “B#: A Battery Emulator and Power Profiling Instrument”
- 2002: SIGDA Technical Leadership Award, 39th DAC
- 2002: Best Paper Award, Asia South-Pacific Design Automation Conference