Paul M. Chau


Office: 4407 Engineering Building Unit 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: chau@ece.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-0682
Fax: (858) 534-0415

Ph.D. Cornell University, 1987

Electronic Systems and Systems Controls
Dr. Chau worked for General Electric Military Electronic System Organization for seven years in various radar/sonar signal processing assignments prior to his research at Cornell University. Subsequent to that, he joined UC San Diego where he is currently an Associate Professor in electronic circuits and systems. Dr. Chau has contributed to reduced complexity hardware architectures for VLSI Signal Processing for Communication Applications. He has also developed high-level CAD tools to aid in rapid prototyping electronics.

Engineering Interests

Computer Aided rapid prototyping of electronic circuits and systems, signal processing and the development of satellite communications subsystems (VLSI digital Signal Processing [VLSI-DSP], VLSI circuit and system design, application/algorithm-specific integrated circuit [ASIC] chip design, computer-aided design [CAD] tools, adaptive signal processing, electronic neural networks)


Honors and Distinctions
  • NSF Research Initiation Investigator Award
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems
  • Co-Chairman of 1994 IEEE's VLSI Signal Processing Conference
  • Co-Chairman of SPIE's VLSI Algorithms and Archietecture Conferences

    Selected Publications

    P.M. Chau and S.R. Powell, "Power Dissipation of VLSI Array Processing Systems," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 4:199-212 (1992).

    S.S. Watkins, P.M. Chau, and R. Tawel, "Different Approaches to Implementing a Radial Basis Function Neurocomputer," In: RNN/IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputers, IEEE, 1992. p. 1149-55 vol 2.

    S.R. Powell and P.M. Chau, "A Technique for Realizing Linear Phase IIR Filters," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 39:2425-35 (1991).

    Last Updated: 5/2/97