Areas of Interest

Design for Manufacturability, System-Level Interconnect Modeling, Architectural-Level Design Exploration

Biographical Sketch

Kambiz Samadi received his B.S. in Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from California State University, Fresno(CSUF) in May 2004. During the summer of 2003, he pursued research with the Wireless Communications Group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under supervision of Prof. Babak Hassibi, through an undergraduate summer research fellowship (SURF) program. He is also a recipient of the 2004 outstanding undergraduate honorable mention award by Computing Research Association (CRA). In Fall 2004 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to pursue his Ph.D. under supervision of Prof. Andrew B. Kahng. He is currently affiliated with the VLSI CAD Lab - ABKGROUP.

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

• Andrew. B. Kahng and Kambiz Samadi, "CMP Fill", The Handbook of Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design. Charles J. Alpert, Dinesh P. Mehta, and Sachin S. Sapatnekar editors, CRC Press.

  Conferences

• Andrew B. Kahng, Kambiz Samadi and Puneet Sharma, "Study of Floating Fill Impact on Interconnect Capacitance", in Proc. International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, March 2006, pp. 691-696.
• Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, O.S. Nakagawa and Kambiz Samadi "Closing the Loop in Interconnect Analyses and Optimization: CMP Fill, Lithography and Timing", in Proc. 22nd International VLSI/ULSI Multilevel Interconnection (VMIC) Conference, October 2005, pp. 352-363.
• Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, Chul-Hong Park, Kambiz Samadi and Xu Xu, "Topography-Aware Optical Proximity Correction for Better DOF Margin and CD Control", in Proc. SPIE 5853, 844 (2005).

  Journals

• Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, Chul-Hong Park, Kambiz Samadi and Xu Xu, "Wafer Topography-Aware Optical Proximity Correction", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 25(12) 2006, pp. 2747-2756.
• Andrew B. Kahng and Kambiz Samadi, "CMP Fill Synthesis: A Survey of Recent Practice", to appear in IEEE Transcations on Computer-Aided Design.