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Wei Wu

PhD Graduate Student

E.E. Department, UCLA

53-109 Engineering IV, 420 Westwood Plaza

Los Angeles, CA 90095

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/weiwuucla

Email: weiw@seas.ucla.edu

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Wei Wu is currently a senior software engineer at Google. He obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineer at UCLA in March 2016. During those 4 years at UCLA, he worked in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, under the guidance of Prof. Lei He. His research interest includes:

FPGA based Computing System: Deep Learning Accelerators, Analog Circuit Emulation
Machine Learning: Deep Nets and their Compact Models, Applications
EDA: Parallel Circuit Simulation and Yield Analysis

He received his B.S. and M.S. Degrees in School of Electrical Engineering, Beihang University (formerly known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), China in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Prior to coming to UCLA, he was with Prof. Yu Wang in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2010 and with Prof. Hao Yu in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2011.

More details about Wei Wu are available in the CV.

Education

Jan.2012 - Mar.2016	PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering UCLA
Sep.2007 - Jan.2010	M.Sc, Department of Electrical Engineering Beihang University, China
Sep.2003 - Jul. 2007	B.Sc, Department of Electrical Engineering Beihang University, China

Industry Experience

Jun.2015 - Sep.2015	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	Yorktown Heights, NY
Research Intern	Manager: Jinjun Xiong
Developed a flow that transfers the knowledge of a sophisticated deep neural network to a simpler/shallow network with negligible sacrifice in accuracy. Developed the algorithms that compress the deep neural network to reduce the inference complexity.
Mar.2015 - Jun.2015	Google Inc.	Pittsburgh, PA
Software Developer Intern	Manager: Shijie Zhang
Predicted duplicates for Ads crawling using Google Brain at extremely large scale.
Jun.2014 - Sep.2014	Samsung Research America	San Jose, CA
Research Intern	Manager: Pranav Mistry, Jeff Pierce
Worked on confidential prototypes related to wearable computing, indoor positioning, and machine learning applications.

Teaching Experience

EE201C	Modeling of VLSI Circuits and Systems (Fall'13)
EEM116L	Introductory Digital Design Laboratory (Spring'12, Spring'13)
EE110L	Circuit Measurements Laboratory (Fall'12)

Created: 2012-04-18. Last Update: 2015-09-23. ©2012 Copyright Wei Wu. All rights reserved.