Jia Wang

Education

Ph.D., EECS, Northwestern University, 2008
M.S., ECE, Northwestern University, 2005
B.S., EE, Tsinghua University, 2002

Research Interests

Jia Wang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008. His research interests include VLSI design automation, e.g., sequential optimization, floorplanning, and design for manufacturability; synthesis for embedded systems and distributed systems; and algorithm design.

Publications

Selected Publications

1. Z. Zhou, X. Yang, D. Zhao, P. Rich, W. Tang, Jia Wang, and Z. Lan, I/O-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Petascale Computing Systems. Parallel Computing, 58, pp. 107-116, Oct. 2016.
2. C. Wang, K. Ren, and Jia Wang, Secure Optimization Computation Outsourcing in Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Linear Programming. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(1), pp. 216-229, Jan. 2016.
3. Jia Wang, X. Xiong, and X. Zheng, Deterministic Random Walk: A New Preconditioner for Power Grid Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 23(11), pp. 2606-2616, Nov. 2015.
4. N. Gupte and Jia Wang, Secure Power Grid Simulation on Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 34(3), pp. 422-432, Mar. 2015.
5. L. Hua, Jia Wang, and C. Zhou, Adaptive Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination on Distribution Network. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 5(6), pp. 2666-2675, Nov. 2014.
6. X. Xiong and Jia Wang, Verifying RLC Power Grids with Transient Current Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 32(7), pp. 1059-1071, Jul. 2013.
7. C. Wang, K. Ren, Jia Wang, and Q. Wang, Harnessing the Cloud for Securely Outsourcing Large-Scale Systems of Linear Equations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(6), pp. 1172-1181, Jun. 2013.
8. J. Wu, Jia Wang, K. Li, H. Zhou, Q. Lv, L. Shang, and Y. Sun, Large-Scale Energy Storage System Design and Optimization for Emerging Electric-Drive Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 32(3), pp. 325-338, Mar. 2013.
9. X. Zheng, Z. Zhou, X. Yang, Z. Lan, and Jia Wang, Exploring Plan-Based Scheduling for Large-Scale Computing Systems. IEEE Cluster, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016.
10. N. Gupte and Jia Wang, Transient Noise Bounds Using Vectorless Power Grid Verification. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Austin, TX, 2015.
11. X. Xiong and Jia Wang, Vectorless Transient Power Grid Verification: A Case Study with IBM Benchmarks. IEEE Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal Integrity, Santa Clara, CA, 2015.
12. X. Yang, X. Zheng, Z. Zhou, W. Tang, Jia Wang, and Z. Lan, Balancing Job Performance with System Performance via Locality-Aware Scheduling on Torus-Connected Systems. IEEE Cluster, Madrid, Spain, 2014.
13. N. Gupte and Jia Wang, Securely Outsourcing Power Grid Simulation on Cloud. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Houston, TX, 2014.
14. Jia Wang and X. Xiong, Scalable Power Grid Transient Analysis via MOR-Assisted Time Domain Simulations. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2013.
15. X. Xiong and Jia Wang, Constraint Abstraction for Vectorless Power Grid Verification. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Austin, TX, 2013.
16. Jia Wang, Deterministic Random Walk Preconditioning for Power Grid Analysis. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2012.

Expertise

VLSI design automation, including sequential optimization, floorplanning, and design for manufacturability; synthesis for embedded systems and distributed systems; and algorithm design.