{"621596":{"#nid":"621596","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chang Selected for Chih Foundation Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMuya Chang has been selected for the 2019 Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Award. Chang is a dual degree graduate student at Georgia Tech, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and an M.S. in Computer Science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChang received this award for his research on \u0026ldquo;high-performance circuits for continuous and discrete dynamical systems and their applications in learning and optimizations.\u0026rdquo; He is exploring computing architectures and circuit designs, which can implement complex dynamics and solve computationally hard problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChang has recently designed, taped-out, and measured a 49-core ASIC processor capable of solving large-scale convex optimizations via projection methods. This is one of the largest test-chips designed in academia, and Chang demonstrated break-through performance and energy-efficiency in this work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe test-chip is fully programmable with its own instruction-set architecture and is capable of solving a large class of problems with applications in machine learning and in image and signal processing. More recently, Chang has been exploring analog circuits that can solve\/approximate hard problems, such as SAT, through continuous time dynamical systems. His work has received significant recognition in the circuit community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChang is a part of the Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab (ICSRL) and is advised by ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury. This is the second year in a row that a graduate student from ICSRL has won the Chih Foundation Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMuya Chang has been selected for the 2019 Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Muya Chang has been selected for the 2019 Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-05-10 19:58:43","changed_gmt":"2019-05-13 16:51:25","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621627":{"id":"621627","type":"image","title":"Muya Chang","body":null,"created":"1557766253","gmt_created":"2019-05-13 16:50:53","changed":"1557766253","gmt_changed":"2019-05-13 16:50:53","alt":"photograph of Muya Chang","file":{"fid":"236781","name":"Muya_Chang-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muya_Chang-cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muya_Chang-cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":841199,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Muya_Chang-cropped.jpg?itok=ThHppbNw"}}},"media_ids":["621627"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/icsrl.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu","title":"School of Computer Science"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181271","name":"Muya Chang"},{"id":"139771","name":"Arijit Raychowdhury"},{"id":"181272","name":"Chih Foundation"},{"id":"181273","name":"Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Award"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"181274","name":"high-performance circuits"},{"id":"181275","name":"computing architecture"},{"id":"173662","name":"circuit design"},{"id":"1377","name":"optimization"},{"id":"181276","name":"test-chip"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"204","name":"image processing"},{"id":"169432","name":"signal processing"},{"id":"181277","name":"analog circuits"},{"id":"177703","name":"continuous time dynamical systems"},{"id":"139781","name":"Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}