Stephen Plaza

"If it ain't broke don't fix it and if it is broke, just ignore it!"



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Stephen Plaza

PhD Student
University of Michigan

2818 CSE
Dept of EECS, ACAL LAB
2260 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone: (734) 763-6507
Email: splaza@umich.edu
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I am currently a PhD student in computer engineering at the University of Michigan. I began my graduate study at the University of Michigan Fall 2003. My primary research areas involve hardware verification techniques, logic synthesis, designing reliable systems, and incremental physical synthesis. My research advisors are Valeria Bertacco (webpage) and Igor Markov (webpage).

More specifically, my research involves using logic simulation as an abstraction to allow for scalable analysis and synthesis of complex designs. I also have specific interests in circuit reliability and the parallelization of NP-complete algorithms like DPLL-based SAT. My diverse interests have allowed me to work on several different parts of the design flow from high-level RTL to physical. I also have some background and interest in quantum computing.