Wei Yan

Ph.D. student

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wei Yan received the master’s degree in electronic engineering at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Connecticut. He has worked on FPGA-based systems since 2009. Projects include Solid-State Device, high-speed interface, parallel error correcting code, embedded flash translation layer and other memory systems. His research interests include digital system architecture, FPGA-based design and fault tolerant algorithm.

Systems Engineering Focus

Key Active Research Projects

• Design automation and optimization framework for embedded systems
• Internet of Things system-level security
• Very large scale system authentication and authorization

Future Directions

• FPGA-based system design
• Digital system security
• Fault tolerant system architecture

Key Skills/Capabilities

• HDL-based hardware design
• C++/CUDA/SystemC/VB/Python/Assembler Language
• Research / Lab Website: http://snsl.engr.uconn.edu/SNSL/Home.html