Woojoo Lee, Ph.D. SPORTLab at EE/CENG USC Advisor: Prof. Massoud Pedram

Contact

woojoole@usc.edu

Research Interests

• Low-power design for Smartphones: System-level PM, PDN, battery SoC
• Low-power SoC
• Low-power display module
• FinFETs
• Photovoltaic module emulation systems

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2010 Fa. – 2015 Sp.
  • Advisor: Professor Massoud Pedram
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2008 Fa. – 2010 Sp.
  • Advisor: Professor Massoud Pedram
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1999 Sp. – 2007 Sp.

Research Work

• Conference Publication

  • W. Lee, Y. Wang, D. Shin, S. Nazarian and M. Pedram, "Design and Optimization of a Reconfigurable Power Delivery Network for Large-Area, DVS-Enabled OLED Displays", ACM/IEEE ISLPED 2015
  • W. Lee, Y. Wang, T. Cui, S. Nazarian and M. Pedram, "Dynamic Thermal Management of FinFET-Based Circuits Exploiting the Temperature Effect Inversion Phenomenon", ACM/IEEE ISLPED 2014
  • W. Lee, Y. Wang and M. Pedram, "DTM for Power Optimization of FinFET-based Circuits Exploiting a TEI Phenomenon", SRC TECHCON 2014
  • W. Lee, Y. Wang and M. Pedram, "VRCon: Dynamic Reconfiguration of Voltage Regulators in a Multicore Platform", IEEE DATE 2014
  • D. Shin, N. Chang, W. Lee, Y. Wang, Q. Xie and M. Pedram, "Online Estimation of the Remaining Energy Capacity in Mobile Systems Considering System-Wide Power Consumption and Battery Characteristics", IEEE ASP-DAC 2013
  • W. Lee, Y. Wang, D. Shin, N. Chang and M. Pedram, "Power Conversion Efficiency Characterization and Optimization for Smartphones", ACM/IEEE ISLPED, 2012: ref. data:here
  • W. Lee, Y. Kim, Y. Wang, N. Chang and M. Pedram, "Versatile High-Fidelity Photovoltaic Module Emulation System", ACM/IEEE ISLPED, 2011
    

• Journal Publication

  • W. Lee, Y. Wang and M. Pedram, "Optimizing a Reconfigurable Power Distribution Network in a Multicore Platform, IEEE T. on CAD, 2015
  • W. Lee, Y. Wang, D. Shin, N. Chang and M. Pedram, "Optimizing Power Delivery Network in a Smartphone Platform," IEEE T. on CAD, 2014
  • Y. Kim, W. Lee, M. Pedram and N. Chang, "Dual-Mode Power Regulator for Photovoltaic Module Emulation," Elsevier Applied Energy, 2013

• Submission

  • "Temperature Effect Inversion Aware Dynamic Thermal Management for FinFET Circuits"

Work Experience

• Intern: Mobile ASIC team, Broadcom, Irvine, CA, 2012
• Network Engineer / Programmer, NEXON, Seoul, Korea, 2002-2005
• Teaching Assistant 2010 Fall - Current
  Tools-TA in CENG - Administrating VLSI related tools (esp. Cadence and Synopsys) in USC
  VLSI system design (577B) TA - 2010 Fall

Misc

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• My wife is Cindy Park, and my son is Ayden Lee.