Experience

University of Arizona

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • 2020 - Present

  • Proposed a Hybrid high-level synthesis (H-HLS) framework to enable the design and optimization of application-specific embedded systems in which timing information is explicitly and precisely defined in state-based system models. Designed a wearable pregnancy monitoring device to examine the proposed methodology. • Proposed a Pruned Genetic Design Space Exploration (PG-DSE) approach to post-synthesis (HLS) DSE that involves a pruning method to effectively reduce the system-level design space and an elitist genetic algorithm to accurately find the system-level Pareto-optimal configurations.Publications:• Y. Liao, T. Adegbija, R. Lysecky. "Efficient System-Level Design Space Exploration for High-Level Synthesis using Pareto-Optimal Subspace Pruning". In 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC’ 23).• Y. Liao, T. Adegbija, R. Lysecky. "A high-level synthesis approach for precisely-timed, energy-efficient embedded systems" Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 35 (2022): 100741. Show less

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Teaching Assistant in ECE 175 Computer Programming for Engineering Applications• Evaluating and guiding lab activities and projects on C. Topics include: Fundamentals of C, intro to data structures, structured program design, application to solving engineering problems.Teaching Assistant in ECE 220 Basic Circuits• Evaluating and guiding lab activities and grading on the basic circuits. Topics include: Passive sign convention, mesh and node analysis, Thevenin equivalents, op-amps, capacitance, inductance, phasors, impedance, transformers, PSpice simulation software.Teaching Assistant in ECE 275 Computer Programming for Engineering Applications II• Helping with in-class learning, holding office hours, and grading on C, C++. Topics include: Lists, trees, graphs, traversal, pointers, structures, unions, and introduction to classes. Programming design topics including memory management, abstraction and design of advanced structures.Teaching Assistant in ECE 373 Object-Oriented Software Design• Evaluating and guiding lab activities, holding office hours, and grading on Java. Topics include: Object-oriented computing concepts, abstract data types, classes, methods, inheritance, class hierarchies, use case development, sequence diagrams, introduction to unified modeling language. Show less

• Grader

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  • ECE 562 Computer Architecture and Design• ECE 576B Embedded System Design and Optimization