Puneet Gupta
Assistant Professor	Electrical Engineering

Email: Phone: +1-310-825-1376 Address: 44-123A, Engr. IV Bldg, Box 951594, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095-1594 Brief Bio B. Tech, Electrical Engineering.   Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi   2000. B. Tech Project Title: ``Task Partitioning Between a General Purpose Microprocessor and Reconfigurable Hardware'' Ph.D, Electrical Engineering.   University of California, San Diego   2007. Dissertation Title: ``On Compensating Systematic Variations in Physical Design'' Co-Founder and Product Architect.   Blaze DFM Inc, Sunnyvale CA.   2004-2007   My detailed PDF resume can be found here.

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Research Interests
Briefly, my research interests lie generally in the areas of VLSI design and manufacturing automation. Though my primary focus has been the design-manufacturing interface, I have worked on a wide variety of topics ranging from scan-based tesing to topography-aware OPC. Example topics of interest are

• Variation-tolerant circuits and systems
• Manufacturable layouts and physical design
• Cost-effective VLSI manufacturing leveraging design-awareness
• Design challenges for next generation manufacturing

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Professional Service

• Technical Program Committee Member, ICCAD (2007-), ICCD(2007), ISQED(2006-), SLIP(2007-), DFM&Y(2007-), ASPDAC (2008-), VLSI Design (2008-)
• Vice-Chair CADathlon at ICCAD, 2007
• Finance Chair, SLIP, 2008
• PD/DFM Track Chair, VLSI Design, 2009
• Session Chair, DAC 2007

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Teaching

• Fall 2008: EE116C/CS151B
• Winter 2009: EE209S
• Spring 2009: EE110

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Books and Book Chapters

• P. Gupta and E. Papadopoulou, ``Yield Analysis and Optimization'', The Handbook of Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, CRC Press, to be published.

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Awards

• 2007 European Design Automation Association (EDAA) outstanding dissertation award in the topic "New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits".
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2004.

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Research and funding opportunities available for graduate students. Students who like to cross disciplinary boundaries (VLSI fabrication, devices, circuits, systems, algorithms, statistics ) are especially welcome. Only Ph.D. students and M.S. students who pursue a thesis option will be considered.
Few M.S. project topics are also available without funding. Please contact me for details.

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