Boxun Xu

Boxun Xu

MS student of IC&VLSI design

University of Michigan

Biography

I am a M.S. student at Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Now, I am working at Michigan Intergrated Circuits Laboratory (MICL) as a research assistant, under the supervision of Professor David Blaauw. My research interests span from digital circuit design to architecture design, including hardware-algorithm co-design, low-power VLSI system design, hardware accelerator and deep learning.

Interests

  • hardware-algorithm co-design
  • low-power VLSI system design
  • hardware accelerator
  • deep learning

Education

  • M.S. in Integrated Circuits and VLSI Design, 2019.09 - 2021.04(expected)

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology, 2015.09 - 2019.06

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mar 2019 – May 2019 Hong Kong
Speed-up Neural Network on FPGA
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Sep 2018 – Feb 2019 Saudi Arabia
Quantum investigation for the adsorption of molecules on lepidocrocite-type TiO2 surface

Projects

A GAN-based generalized signal encoding processor for IoT applications in 22nm ULL technology

Design of a low-power configurable neural engine for deep learning applications

A RISC-V 16-bit customized microprocessor using IBM 130 nm technology

designed and laid out register file, ALU, shifter, program counter, peripherals and ISA for a 16-bit microprocessor using IBM 130 nm technology

Time-Domain Mixed-Signal MAC Processor

Design of 4-bit Time-Domain Mixed-Signal MAC Processor with 8T SRAM Array as Data Cache for Resource-constrained DNN Applications