Li Du Kneron Inc., San Diego, CA, USA Email: dl1989113 at ucla dot edu

About me

I received my B.S from Southeast University from 2011. Then I came to UCLA and recieved my M.S and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Frank Chang at Sept 2016.

I have been working at Qualcomm Inc, mixed signal circuit design department from June 2013 to Sept 2016, since then I joined Kneron Inc, as a hardware architect research scientist. My role at Kneron includes hardware project management, spec neogition with customer, system architecture evaluation and RTL design in the hardware accelerator of Neural Network circuits.

My research interests include mixed signal circuit design and VLSI design for signal processing.

News

• Check out our latest work about using Charge Trapping Devices to build a neural network processor. Unlike memristor, this device is compatible with CMOS technology. Test result is promising. More information is coming Paper .

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California- Los Angeles, June 2013 - Sept 2016

• M.S., University of California, Los Angles, Sept 2011 - June 2013

• B.S., Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, September 2007 - June 2011

Research

Hardware Acceleration of Neural Network

L. Du et al., "A Reconfigurable Streaming Deep Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator for Internet of Things," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 198-208, Jan. 2018. [ Paper ]

Y. Du, L. Du, X. Gu, J. Du, X. Wang, B.Hu, M. Jiang,X. Chen, S. Lyer, M.-C. F. Chang et al., "An Analog Neural Network Computing Engine using CMOS-Compatible Charge-Trap-Transistor (CTT)," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. [ Paper ]

3D Touch Detection, Advanced Human/Machine Interface

L. Du, Y. Zhang, F. Hsiao, A. Tang, Y. Zhao, Y. Li, J. Chen, L.Huang, M.-C. F. Chang, "A 2.3mW 11cm Range Bootstrapped and Correlated Double Sampling (BCDS) 3D Touch Sensor for Mobile Devices", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 122-123, Feb. 22-26, 2015. [ Paper ]

L. Du, C. Liu, A. Tang, Y. Zhang, M.-C. F. Chang, "Airtouch:A Novel Single Layer 3D Touch Sensing System for Human/Mobile DeviceInteractions", ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, June, 2016. [ Paper ]

L. Du, C. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, M.-C. F. Chang, " L. Du et al., "A Single Layer 3-D Touch Sensing System for Mobile Devices Application," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 286-296, Feb. 2018. pp.1-1. [ Paper ]

L. Du, Y. Zhang, C. C. Liu, A. Tang, F. Hsiao and M. C. F. Chang,"A 2.3-mW 11-cm Range Bootstrapped and Correlated-Double-Sampling Three-Dimensional Touch Sensing Circuit for Mobile Devices," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 64, no. 1, pp.96-100, Jan. 2017. [ Paper ]

Other Publications

Y. Tang, C. Wong, Y. Du, L. Du, Y. Li, M.-C. F. Chang, "A Fully Integrated 28nm CMOS Dual Source Adaptive Thermoelectric and RF Energy Harvesting Circuit with 110mV Startup Voltage " IEEE 2018 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. [ Paper ]

A. Tang, Y. Kim, L. Du, T. Reck, "Chirp-Partitionbased Pre-Distortion for Reduced Carrier Leakage in Circulator-based Wide-bandFMCW Radar System" IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2017. [ Paper ]

A. Tang, F Hsiao, Y. Kim, L. Du, L. Kong, G. Virbila et al.,"A 95 GHz Centimeter Scale Precision Confined Pathway System-on-ChipNavigation Processor for Autonomous Vehicles in 65nm CMOS", IEEEInternational Microwave Symposium 2015. [ Paper ]

Y. Du; W.H. Cho; P. T. Huang; Y. Li; C. H. Wong; J. Du; Y. Kim; B. Hu; L. Du; C. Liu; S. J. Lee; M. C. F. Chang, "A16-Gb/s 14.7-mW Tri-Band Cognitive Serial Link Transmitter With Forwarded Clockto Enable PAM-16/256-QAM and Channel Response Detection," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-12 [ Paper ]

T. Zhang, L. Du, JJ. Lv, B. Zhou et al., "A Simple System for MeasuringAntenna Radiation Patterns in the Wi-Fi Band," in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 191-202, Feb. 2013. [ Paper ]

Y. Li, K. Dhwaj, C. Wong, Y.Du, L. Du, Y. Tang et al., "A Novel Fully Synthesizable All-Digital RF Transmitter for IoT Applications", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. [ Paper ]