Teresa H. Meng
Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering

Former Ph.D. Students (to 2010)

• Scott C. Douglas, (douglas@engr.smu.edu)
  "Nonlinear Stochastic Gradient Adaptation: Analysis and Optimization,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1992.
  Current position: Professor in the EE Dept., Southern Methodist University.

• Peter J. Black, (pblack@qualcomm.com)
  "Algorithms and Architectures for High Speed Viterbi Decoders,'' EE Dept., graduated in March 1993.
  Current position: Senior Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, Inc.

• Alan Gatherer, (gatherer@ti.com)
  "Pulse position Estimation and its Application to Lithographic Alignment,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 1993.
  Current position: CTO of Base-Station Business Division at Texas Instruments.

• Peter A. Beerel, (pabeerel@eiger.usc.edu)
  "CAD Tools for Synthesis, Verification, and Testability of Robust Asynchronous Circuits,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 1994.
  Current position: Professor in the EE Dept., University of Southern California.

• Sheila S. Hemami , (hemami@ece.cornell.edu)
  "Transform Coded Image Reconstruction Exploiting Interblock Correlation,'' EE Dept., (co-advised with Professor Robert Gray), graduated in December 1994.
  Current position: Professor in the EE Dept., Cornell University.

• Andy C. Hung, (achung@intervideoinc.com)
  "Channel Optimized Video Compression for Wireless Communication,'' CS Dept., graduated in December 1994.
  Current position: InterVideo, Inc., Fremont, California.

• Clemenz L. Portmann, (portmann@aeluros.com)
  "Characterization and Reduction of Metastability Errors in CMOS Interface Circuits,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1995.
  Current position: MTS, Google, Mt. View, California.

• Chris J. Myers, (myers@vlsigroup.ece.utah.edu)
  "Computer-Aided Synthesis and Verification of Gate-Level Timed Circuits,'' EE Dept., graduated in July 1995.
  Current position: Associate Professor in the EE Dept., University of Utah.

• Ely K Tsern, (tsern@rambus.com)
  "Error Resilient Video Compression for Portable Applications Using Pyramid Vector Quantization,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1996.
  Current position: Engineering Director, Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, California.

• Benjamin M. Gordon
  "VLSI Implementations of Low-Power Subband Decoding for Portable Video Applications,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1996.

• Tony Todesco
  "Parallel Mixed-Mode Co-Simulation of VLSI Circuits and Systems,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1997.

• Kristin E. Precoda
  "Perception Bases for Audio Compression Techniques,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 1998.
  Current position: Program Director, SRI International, Menlo Park.

• Tony Verma, (tony.verma@stanfordalumni.org)
  "Scalable Compression of High-Fidelity Audio Signals,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 1999.
  Current position: Director of Audio Technologies, Vidiator Technology (US), Inc.

• Won Namgoong,
  "Fast and Power-Efficient Synchronization of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Signals,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 1999.
  Current position: Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Texas at Dallas.

• Jeff Hsieh, (jhsieh@stanfordalumni.org)
  "Low-Power Video Processing Architecture for Digital CMOS Cameras,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 2002.
  Current position: Sr. Architect, Omnivision, Santa Clara, California.

• Peter Chou, (peter.chou@stanfordalumni.org)
  "Compression of 3D Models Through Vector Quantization,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 2002.
  Current position: MTS at Apple Computers, Cupertino, California.

• Jeff G. Andrews, (jandrews@ece.utexas.edu)
  "Successive Interference Cancellation for Uplink CDMA,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 2002.
  Current position: Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, University of Texas at Austin.

• Volkan Rodoplu, (vrodoplu@ece.ucsb.edu)
  "Analysis and Design of Energy-Efficient Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,'' EE Dept., graduated in September 2003.
  Current position: Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, University of California at Santa Barbara.

• Ozge Koymen, (koymen@stanfordalumni.org)
  "A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Oversampling,'' EE Dept., graduated in September 2003.
  Current position: Technical Staff, Flarion Technologies, Inc. Bedminster, NJ
  

• Sydney Reader, (sreader@ambarella.com)
  "Asynchronous Design of Non-Determinitic Signal Processing Tasks,'' EE Dept., Engineering degree in June 2004.
  Current position: Technical Staff, Ambarella, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
  

• Horng-Wen Lee, (winston@stanfordalumni.org)
  "Self-Aligned Position Estimation for Low-Power GPS Receivers,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 2004.
  Current position: CEO, Maxwell Technologies, Taiwan.
  

• Gregory Allan Gorton,
  "Digital Standard Cell Library Characterization: A Suite of Tools for Methodology and Error Analysis,'' EE Dept., Engineering degree in March 2006.
  Current position: Advisory Scientist/Engineer, IBM, Dayton, Ohio.
  

• Alok Aggarwal, (alok.aggarwal@stanfordalumni.org)
  "Optimal Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM Systems,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 2006.
  Current position: Senior Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA.
  

• Caleb Tilo Kemere, (ckemere@phy.ucsf.edu)
  " Model-Based Decoding of Neural Signals for Prosthetic Interfaces,'' EE Dept., graduated in August 2006.
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, New York.
  

• Michael Linderman, (mlinderm @ stanford.edu)
  " A Programming Model and Processor Architecture for Heterogeneous Multicore Computers,'' EE Dept., graduated in March 2009
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
  

• Stephen O'Driscoll, (odriscoll @ ucdavis.edu)
  " Adaptive Signal Acquisition and Power Delivery for Implantable Medical Devices,'' EE Dept., graduated in June 2009
  Current position: Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of California at Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA.