Researcher Name: Yen-Kuang Chen

Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Lab: Microprocessor Technology Lab

Primary Research Area: Emerging applications, performance analysis, multi-core architectures

Bio:

Yen-Kuang Chen (also known as, Y.-K.) received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. His research interests include developing innovative multimedia applications, studying the performance bottleneck in current architectures, and designing next-generation microprocessors/platforms. He has 10+ US patents, 25+ pending patent applications, and 75+ technical publications. He is one of the key contributors to Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 (SSSE3). Currently, he is analyzing emerging multimedia applications and providing inputs to the definition of the next-generation CPUs and GPUs with many cores. As an expert in video compression (e.g., MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, & H.264) and computer architecture for emerging applications (e.g., SIMD and multi-threading), he is an invited speaker to 2005 Emerging Information Technology Conference, 2005 New Technology Business Opportunities Forum, 2004 Sino-American Technology & Engineering Conference, and 2003 Workshop on Media and Signal Processors for Embedded Systems and SoCs. He is an associate editor of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (including special issues on “System-on-a-Chip for Multimedia Systems,” “Design and Programming of Signal Processors for Multimedia Communication,” and “Multicore Enabled Multimedia Applications and Architecture”), IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System I, and IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System for Video Technology. He has served a program committee member of 20+ international conferences and workshops on multimedia, video communication, image processing, VLSI circuits and systems, parallel processing, and software optimization. He is an invited participant to 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (National Academy of Engineering) and to 2003 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). He is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Senior Member.

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Recent journal publications:

1. "Trend and Challenge on System-on-a-Chip Designs," Y.-K. Chen and S.Y. Kung, to appear in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, 2008.
2. "High-Performance Physical Simulations on Next-Generation Architecture with Many Cores," Y.-K. Chen, J. Chhugani, C. Hughes, D. Kim, S. Kumar, V. Lee, A. Lin, A. Nguyen, E. Sifakis, and M. Smelyanskiy, Intel Technology Journal, Aug. 2007.
3. "Media Mining: Emerging Tera-scale Computing Applications," Y. Chen, E. Li, W. Li, T. Wang, J. Li, X. Tong, P. Wang, W. Hu, Y. Zhang, and Y.-K. Chen, Intel Technology Journal, Aug. 2007.
4. "ALP: Efficient Support for All Levels of Parallelism for Complex Media Applications," R. Sasanka, M. Li, S. Adve, Y.-K. Chen, and E. Debes, in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, vol. 4, no. 1, March 2007.
5. "Cache-Conscious Frequent Pattern Mining on Modern and Emerging Processors," A. Ghoting, G. Buehrer, S. Parthasarathy, D. Kim, A. Nguyen, Y.-K. Chen, and P. Dubey, in International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 77-96, Jan. 2007.
6. "Implementation of H.264 Encoder and Decoder on Personal Computers," Y.-K. Chen, E. Q. Li, X. Zhou, and S. L. Ge, in Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representations, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 509-532, April 2006.
7. "A Compiler for Exploiting Nested-Parallelism in OpenMP Programs," X. Tian, J. Hoeflinger, G. Haab, Y.-K. Chen, M. Girkar, S. Shah, Parallel Computing Journal, vol. 31, no. 10-12, pp. 960-983, Oct. 2005.
8. "Enhanced Mode-Adaptive Fine Granularity Scalability," W.-H. Peng and Y.-K. Chen, in International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 308-321, Mar 2004.
9. "Media Applications on Hyper-Threading Technology," Y.-K. Chen, M. Holliman, E. Debes, S. Zheltov, A. Knyazev, S. Bratanov, R. Belenov, and I. Santos, Intel Technology Journal, pp. 47-57, Feb. 2002.
10. "Multimedia Technology Infrastructure for Emerging Peer-to-Peer Applications and Services," R. Lienhart, M. Holliman, Y.-K. Chen, I. Kozintsev, and M. Yeung, IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 73-77, Jan/Feb 2002.

Personal website: http://www.geocities.com/ykchen913/