Conference Papers

• Jackey Z. Yan, Chris Chu and Wai-Kei Mak, "SafeChoice: A Novel Clustering Algorithm for Wirelength-Driven Placement", to appear in Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Physical Desgin (ISPD), March 2010.
• Jackey Z. Yan, Natarajan Viswanathan and Chris Chu, "Handling Complexities in Modern Large-Scale Mixed-Size Placement", in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2009. [PDF][Slides]
• Jackey Z. Yan and Chris Chu, "DeFer: Deferred Decision Making Enabled Fixed-Outline Floorplanner", in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2008. (Nominated for DAC Best Paper Award)[PDF][Slides]
• Song Sun, Zijun Yan and Joseph Zambreno, "Experiments in Attacking FPGA-Based Embedded Systems using Differential Power Analysis", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), May 2008.[PDF][Slides]

Journal Papers

• Jackey Z. Yan and Chris Chu, "DeFer: Deferred Decision Making Enabled Fixed-Outline Floorplanning Algorithm", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design.
• Song Sun, Zijun Yan and Joseph Zambreno, "Demonstrable Differential Power Analysis Attacks on Real-World FPGA-Based Embedded Systems", Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol.16, no. 2, pp. 119-130, April 2009.[PDF]

Undergraduate Thesis

• Zijun Yan, "GPRS Wireless Communication System Based on ARM and Embedded Linux". (Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award) [PDF][Pic1][Pic2]