Biographical
Sketch of Prof. Sheldon X.-D. Tan
Dr. Sheldon Tan
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Riverside. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in
electrical engineering from
He was a faculty
member in Department of Electrical Engineering, Fudan University from 1995 to
1996. He worked for Monterey Design
Systems Inc. (now Synopysis), CA, from 1999 to 2001 and Altera Corporation CA,
from 2001 to 2002. Now he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Riverside as an Associate Professor. He also is a cooperative faculty member in
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCR. Prof. Tan is a Guest
Professor of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Dr. Tan research
interests include several aspects of design automation for VLSI integrated
circuits – modeling and simulation of analog/RF/mixed-signal VLSI circuits,
high performance power and clock distribution network simulation and design, signal
integrity, power modeling, thermal modeling, thermal optimization in VLSI physical and
architecture levels and
embedded system designs based on FPGA platforms. He has published
over 110 journal and conference papers and gave over 30 invited presentations
and tutorials at conferences and workshops. He serves as an Associate
Editor for Journal of VLSI.
Dr. Tan is the
recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2004.
He also received the UC Regent’s Faculty Fellowship in 2004 and 2006.
Dr. Tan received the Best Paper Award from 2007 IEEE International Conference
on Computer Design (ICCD’07), a Best Paper Award Nomination from 2005 IEEE/ACM
Design Automation Conference, the Best Paper Award from 1999 IEEE/ACM Design
Automation Conference and the Best Poster Award from 1999 Spring Meeting of the
NSF Center for Design of Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC). He also received the Best Graduate Award and
a number of Excellent College Student Scholarships from