Leslie Kyungsoon Hwang
Office: 408 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main street, Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-722-5258; Email: lkhwang@illinois.edu
OBJECTIVE
Internship related with Electronic Design Automation, Digital IC design, Computer Aided Design, or related Electrical and
Computer Engineering field
EDUCATION
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2010.08 ~ present)
 Research Area: Electronic design automation and analysis of algorithms of Computer Aided Design of VLSI
Thermal design in Three Dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D ICs)
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2008.08 ~ 2010.08)
 Research Area: Design and analysis of algorithms for Computer Aided Design of VLSI
Stochastic shortest path problem algorithm for analysis under variation
BS in Electronic and Electrical Engineering • Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (2003.03 ~ 2007.05)
 Interested Area: Analog circuits and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs
Courses
CS 433 Computer System Organization
CSE 532/ECE 552 Numerical Circuit Analysis
ECE 441 Physics and Modeling Semiconductor Devices
ECE 482 Digital IC Design
ECE 527 System-On-Chip Design
CS 450/ECE 491 Numerical Analysis
ECE 440 (equivalent) Solid State Electronic Devices
ECE 444 IC Device Theory and Fabrication
ECE 490/CSE 541 Introduction to Optimization
ECE 582 Physical VLSI Design
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007.05 ~ Present)
• VLSI Computer Aided Design Research Lab
 Computer Aided Design for Very Large-Scale Integration system (2009.01 ~ present)
 Design and analysis of Computer Aided Design algorithms (2009.01 ~ present)
 Electronic design automation for integrated circuits (2010.05 ~ present)
 Optimization of constrained shortest path algorithm (2009.08 ~ 2010.08)
• Thin Film & Charged Particle Research Lab
 Microcapsules for drug delivery and encapsulation of human islet cells (2007.05 ~ 2008.12)
 Advanced drug delivery mediated by uniform microcapsules of biodegradable polymers (2007.05 ~ 2008.12).
 Synthesis and characterization of silica-nanosphere-based MRI contrast agents (2007.12 ~ 2008.12)
Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 ECE 110: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (2010.01 ~ 2010.05, 2010.08 ~ 2010.12)
Ranked as outstanding teaching assistant (Spring 2010, Fall 2010)
 ECE 206: Electrical and Electronic Circuit Lab (2010.05 ~ 2010.08, 2011.01 ~ present)
PUBLICATIONS
Poster
 CRA-W/CDC Workshop on Diversity in Design Automation and Test (WD2AT), “Thermal Via-Fin Design
and Comparison on Various Structures for Enhanced Heat Dissipation in Three Dimensional ICs”, May 23~24,
2011
SKILLS
 Computer: C/C++, MATLAB, VHDL/Verilog, SPICE, Cadence, AutoCAD
 Language: English, Korean
LEADERSHIP and EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVIES
EEE Student Representative Organization • Planning Department Head (2003.03 ~ 2006.12)
 Organize events to facilitate faculty student interaction
 Arrange meetings and systemize policies to improve education environment