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Dean Michael B Ancajas

Hello! I am Dean! Thanks for visiting my webpage. I was a TA for Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute of University of the Philippines, Diliman before coming to Utah State U ECE to pursue my PhD.

Here, you will find about my life mostly spent on research, some work and a little bit of play. Most of my days are spent on the lab, in front of the computer trying to make my simulations work. Recently, I discovered the joy of bike riding and have brought with me a Matsumoto foldable bike during a trip to Taiwan.

Please bear with me as this site is still under construction. My original homepage is at http://server1.eee.upd.edu.ph/dean but due to some server instability I decided to move out of my school's server and bought my own hosting.

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Contents 1 Education 2 Research Interests 3 Research Experience 4 Publications 5 Awards 6 Teaching Experience 7 Contact Information 8 Links

Education

• PhD Electrical Engineering (Computer Architecture), Utah State University, Currently
  
• MS Electrical Engineering (Computer Architecture), University of the Philippines, October 2010
  
• BS Computer Engineering, University of the Philippines, March 2007
  
  • Rank #3 Computer Engineering graduate
    

Research Interests

My area of interest is anything under Computer Architecture. These days (Spring 2011) I spend most of my time studying 3D Memory models for Chip Multiprocessors. 3D Memory seeks to climb the memory wall but is still a relatively new technology. I use a Gems-based simulator to simulate my models along with a cycle-accurate DRAM model from UMD. Shoot me an email if you are interested in what I do.

Research Experience

For a more complete list of all my projects/research descriptions click here

National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan May-June 2009

• Summer Intern at Robot Vision Lab
  • ported the integral image generator portion of the Viola-Jones Algorithm to CUDA. Target application is for long distance face detection. (for more info on this project Click here)

University of the Philippines 2007-2009

• Graduate Student Researcher at Microelectronics and Microprocessors Lab
  • Research on SMT processors. Primarily focusing on operating system scheduling/resource allocation and multithreaded workload selection. (for more info on this project Click here)
• Undergraduate Student Researcher at Microelectronics and Microprocessors Lab
  • Research on extending the DLX RISC architecture to acommodate Multiprocessor operations. Extended the ISA of the DLX.

Symphony Consulting, UP Ayala Technology Business Incubator Park Summer 2007

• Summer Intern
  • Implemented testing modules for the front-end of an FPGA MP3 player. Modules were implemented using VHDL.

Publications

• New publications
  • coming soon..
• Old publications
  • "0.6V Correlators for WLAN Receivers" Proceedings of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2009. April 1-3, Princeton New Jersey.
    
  • "Dual Core Capability of 32-bit DLX Microprocessor" Proceedings of IEEE Region Ten Conference 2007. November 1-4. Taipei, Taiwan.

Awards

• Department of Science and Technology, Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development, Graduate Scholarship 2007-2009
  
• UP Diliman, Research Dissemination Grant 2009
  
• UP Engineering Research Development Fund Incorportated, Faculty Research Incentive Award 2008
  
• Megaworld Foundation, Undergraduate Scholarship 2002-2007
  

Teaching Experience

• University of the Philippines, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute
  • Teaching Associate: June 2007 - April 2009
    • EEE 5 Intro to Semiconductor and Devices
    • EEE 11 Programming Fundamentals (25 sophomore students)
    • EEE 12 Programming Fundamentals II (25 sophomore students)
    • CoE 111 Digital IC Design (25 senior students)
    • CoE 113 Advanced Computer Organization (25 senior students)
  • Lecturer: June - October 2009
    • EEE 8 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
    • EEE 105 Intro to Computer Organization (50 junior students)

Contact Information

Email: dbancajas+web [at] gmail.com
Mobile: +63 9285512229
Home: +63 2 4160568
Lab: +63 2 9818500 loc 3380

Links

These are pages I usually visit when I am doing my research (everyday? ;) ).

WWW Computer Architecture Webpage - The website every architecture student should have in his/her arsenal
M5 Simulator - I did some preliminary work for my master's project using this simulator
PTLSim Simulator - I primarily use this now because of its Full-System Capability using an SMT model
PhD Comics - If research is getting tough and you need a laugh