- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Co-Director of Graduate Programs
- Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-847-8768
- Email: jianghu@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 333L
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota – 2001
- M.S., Physics – 1997
- B.S., Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University – 1990
Research Interests
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- Previous research: interconnect optimization, clock network synthesis, variation tolerant design, power efficient physical design and design for manufacturability
- Current research: optimization for energy-efficient VLSI circuits, on-chip communication fabrics, dynamic power management, adaptive circuit design, interactions between physical design and system-level design, heuristics for large scale combinatorial optimization
Awards & Honors
- IEEE Fellow
- Best paper award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2001
- IBM Invention Achievement Award in 2003
- Best paper award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 2011
- Served as technical program committee members for DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, ISQED, ICCD, DATE, ISCAS, ASP-DAC and ISLPED
- General chair for the 2012 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design.
- Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on CAD 2006-2011.
Selected Publications
- H. Hou, J. Hu and S. S. Sapatnekar, NonHanan routing, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 436-444, April 1999.
- J. Hu and S. S. Sapatnekar, Algorithms for non-Hanan-based optimization for VLSI interconnect under a higher order AWE model, IEEE Trans.
- C. J. Alpert, G. Gandham, J. Hu, J. L. Neves, S. T. Quay and S. S. Sapatnekar, Steiner tree optimization for buffers, blockages and bays, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 556-562, April 2001.
- J. Hu and S. S. Sapatnekar, A survey on multi-net global routing for integrated circuits, Integration: The VLSI Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-49, November 2001. (Invited paper)
- C. J. Alpert, G. Gandham, M. Hrkic, J. Hu, A. B. Kahng, J. Lillis, B. Liu, S. T. Quay, S. S. Sapatnekar and A. J. Sullivan, Buffered Steiner trees for difficult instances, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 3-14, January 2002.
- J. Hu and S. S. Sapatnekar, Performance driven global routing through gradual refinement, The VLSI Design Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 595-604, 2002.
- J. Hu and S. S. Sapatnekar, A timing-constrained simultaneous global routing algorithm, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 1025-1036, September 2002.
- J. Hu, C. J. Alpert, S. T. Quay and G. Gandham, Buffer insertion with adaptive blockage avoidance, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 492-498, April, 2003.
- C. J. Alpert, J. Hu, S. S. Sapatnekar and P. G. Villarrubia, A practical methodology for early buffer and wire resource allocation, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 573-583, May, 2003.
- C. J. Alpert, C. Chu, G. Gandham, M. Hrkic, J. Hu, C. Kashyap and S. T. Quay, Simultaneous driver sizing and buffer insertion using a delay penalty estimation technique, IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 136-141, January, 2004.