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[10/2017][Outreach] We traveled to two North Dakota tribal colleges - Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC) on Sept. 17 and Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) on Oct. 15 - to teach computing-related Sunday Academy lessons to Native high-school students. Sunday Academy is a NSF-funded program designed to generate interest in math, science and engineering among the American Indian high school students. (see our Outreach page)

[09/2017] [Paper] Our paper on data-informed intelligent efficient synaptic storage for deep learning has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II. Congratulations, Jonathon, Yifu, and Dongliang!

[08/2017] [Paper] Our paper on big-data driven intelligent self-recovery video memory has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Big Data. Congratulations, Jonathon, Dongliang, and Yifu!

[06/2017] [Outreach] Dr. Gong is leading “Intelligent Computing Circuits and Systems” Sunday Academy lessons and will travel to 5 ND tribal colleges for outreach with Native high-school students in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. Sunday Academy is a NSF-funded program designed to generate interest in math, science and engineering among the American Indian high school students.

[04/2017] [Paper] Our paper on sizing-priority enabled intelligent video memory has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI).

[04/2017] [Award] Dr. Gong received 2017 NDSU Centennial Endowment Award.

[04/2017] [Award] Xiaowei reveives the second prize in IEEE Red River Valley Poster Competition. Congratulations, Xiaowei!

[04/2017] [Award] Jonathon Edstrom received the CoE TA of the Year Award for 2017. Congratulations, Jonathon!

[04/2017] [Outreach] IMPACT Lab organized two Expanding Your Horizons Workshops "Girls in Engineering", as a part of 38th Annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference. EYH is a nationwide organization that holds regional conferences for young women in grades 7-9 to encourage and develop their career interests in STEM. During the two workshops, we worked with 36 girls from different rural high schools in North Dakota and introduced various research projects to them, such as wireless sensor network, embedded vision, intelligent video storage system, and UAV. (see our Outreach page).

[03/2017] [Paper] Our paper on"Bringing Offline Mining to Online Learning System: Low-Cost and Efficient Self-Healing Synaptic Storage for Deep Learning" has been accepted for Lecture presentation at ISCAS'17 as Late Breaking News. Congratulations, Jonathon, Yifu, and Dongliang!

[02/2017] [Grant] Our research project on embedded vision has been funded by the ND Department of Commerce.

[11/2016] [Grant] Our project on IC thermal optimization for spacecraft systems has been funded ND NASA EPSCoR.

[08/2016] [Paper] Our paper on data-pattern enabled self-recovey multimedia storage system is accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'16). Congratulations, Jonathon and Dongliang!

[08/2016] [Grant] Drs. Debasis Dawn(PI), Scott C. Smith (Co-PI), Na Gong (Co-PI), and Jinhui Wang (Co-PI) have been awarded an NSF CRI grant titled "II-NEW: Probe Station to Characterize Body Area Network Sensor ICs for Cyber Physical Systems Applications" for three years.more information ->

[07/2016] [Award] Our paper on data driven intelligent mobile memory has been nominated Best Paper Award (~1.5) by IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'16). Congratulations, Dongliang, Jonathon, and Xiaowei!

[06/2016] [Award] Dr. Gong received 2016 NDSU Graduate Student Recruitment Award.

[05/2016] [Grant] Dr. Gong with her colleague Drs. Zhibin Lin and Jinhui Wang received a Venture Grant funded by the ND Department of Commerce for their research on UAV enabled intelligent pipeline damage detection and health monitoring system. more information ->

[05/2016] [Award] Our paper on bit-line optimization in 3D on-chip memory system received Best Paper Award (~1%) in the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology. Congratulations, Xiaowei and Seyed!

[05/2016] [Award] Dr. Gong received 2016 NDSU Ozbun Economic Development Award!

[04/2016] [Outreach] Our lab organized "Girls in Electrical and Computer Engineering" workshop for 7th-9th grade girls at the 37th Expanding Your Horizons Conference on April 9, 2016 (see our Outreach page ).

[03/2016] [Paper] Two papers based on our outreach experience "ECE-GIRLS" and "WIECE" are accepted by the 123rd ASEE Annual Conference.

[02/2016] [Award] Our paper entitled “Sizing-Priority Based Low-Power Embedded Memory for Mobile Video Applications,” has been nominated Best Paper Award (<5%) by the 17th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'16).

[01/2016] [Paper] Our paper on smart memory system has been accepted on ISCAS'16. Congratulations, Jonathon and Dongliang!

[12/2015] [Paper] Our paper on sizing-priority enabled low-power memory system has been accepted on ISQED'16. Congratulations, Seyed and Xiaowei!

[11/2015] [Paper] Our PhD student Dongliang Chen presented his work on viewing context aware video memory in 48th International Symposium on Microelectronics 2015

[11/2015] [Student] Our PhD students Xiaowei Chen and Dongliang Chen successfully passed their qualifying exam. Congratulations!

[09/2015] [Tapeout] Our smart embedded memory chip has been returned from MOSIS.

[07/2015] [Paper] Our paper on 3D IC has been accepted on 41st International Conference on Micro-and Nanofabrication and Manufacturing (MNE2015).

[07/2015] [Grant] Dr. Gong received an NSF EAGER grant as PI, tilted "Data-Mining Driven Power-Efficient Intelligent Memory Storage for Mobile Video Applications", with Dr. Jin in Computer Science at NDSU.

[06/2015] [Tapeout] Our low-power embedded memory chip for mobile video processing has been returned from MOSIS.

[06/2015] [Paper] Our paper on viewing context aware video memory have been accepted for IEEE International SoC Conference 2015 (SoCC'15).

[05/2015] [Outreach] Two female undergraduate students were selected to participate in "2015 NDSU Women Undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECE) summer research program" and "ECE Female Graduate Student Enrollment Improvement (ECE-FGSEI) program" in Multi-Level VLSI Research Lab.

[03/2015] [Paper] Our paper on flexible charge recycling low power processor design has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI).

[01/2015] [Teaching] Dr. Gong is a selected participant of the - National Effectives Teaching Institute (NETI) 2015 workshop in Austin, TX.

[12/2014] [Outreach] Seven high school girls explored Electrical and Computer Engineering at NDSU - ECE-GIRLS.

[10/2014] [Paper] Our paper on Non-Volatile SRAM has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Computers.

[09/2014] [Grant] Dr. Gong received ND NASA EPSCoR research fund.

[07/2014] [Grant] Drs. Samee Khan (PI), Scott Smith (Co-PI), Na Gong (Co-PI), Jacob Glower (Co-PI), and Bunnie Johnson-Messelt (Co-PI), have been awarded an NSF grant titled "GARDE: Design Projects to Enable Veteran Reintegration in an Educational System" for five years.

[06/2014] [Paper] Our paper on aging aware tri-modal register files has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI).

[05/2014] [Grant] Dr. Gong received Outreach Initiative Fund, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

[04/2014] [Award] Dr. Gong received NDSU Development Board of Trustee Endowment award.

[04/2014] [Award] Dr. Gong received NDSU Centennial Endowment award.

[01/2014] [Teaching] Class for Spring 2014 - ECE 793 Low Power Circuit and System Design . Take it if you want to learn how to design low power circuit and system .

[12/2013] [Paper] Our paper on leakage vector selection for low power register files has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCASI).

[08/2013] [Teaching] Class for Fall 2013 - ECE 470/670 Digital Systems II .