Wayne P. Burleson, Professor

Office: 309C Knowles Engineering Building Address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: 413-545-2382 (office), Fax: 413-545-1993 Email: burleson@ecs.umass.edu Web (this page): www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/vspgroup/burleson.html Assistant (Christine Langlois): langlois@ecs.umass.edu, 413-545-3621, KEB309 cv.doc cv.pdf

Recent Courses:

• ECE 353, Computer Systems Lab I (Fall 2007)
• ECE 558/658, VLSI Design (Fall 2006) previous years available on CD/online
• ECE 354, Computer Systems Lab (Spring 2006)
• ECE 559/659, VLSI Design Project (Digital System Design with ASIC and FPGA) (Spring 2006), also available on CD/online from Spring 2004
• Old courses

Research:

• VLSI Systems and Circuits Group  (current-mode signaling, multi-level, phase position signaling) (funded by SRC, Intel, NSF)
• RFID Security and Privacy (RFID chips, RFID attacks and defenses)
• Embedded Systems Security (configurable security) (in collaboration with CASA, UMASS Computer Science RFID, RSA Security, UBS Lorient, FRANCE, and Kwangwoon Univ, South Korea)
• Adaptive Systems on a Chip (old) (funded by NSF, SRC)
• VLSI Signal Processing Group (old)
• Previous Research Areas (not necessarily currently funded)

• VLSI algorithms/architectures for DSP and Communication Systems
• VLSI and Algorithms for High-Speed Wireless LANs
• Regular Array Synthesis
• Wave-pipelining
• Arithmetic Verification and Precision Analysis
• Low-power CMOS Design
• Low-power 3D Graphics

Education and Outreach:

• Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), an NSF Engineering Research Center. I am Co-Director of Education and Outreach for CASA. This involves curriculum development and outreach from K12, to undergraduate, graduate and continuing education.
• Research in Presentation Production Electronically. A collaboration with UMASS Computer Science (Prof. Jim Kurose and Rick Adrion) exploring novel instructional technologies.

Group, Department and University:

• VLSI Circuits and Systems Group
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Massachusetts

Wayne P. Burleson
burleson@ecs.umass.edu
Last update: December, 2007