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Philip Chan - M.Sc. Candidate


Research Interests

  • ASIC and SoC (System On Chip) design
  • Arithmetic techniques for DSP and cryptography
  • Quantum cryptography

SoC Lab Management

In addition to pursuing my M.Sc., I am also the lab manager for the Secure System-on-Chip lab in the CCIT building at the University of Calgary. I am responsible for technical aspects of the lab administration, such as maintaining the workstations and equipment in the lab used for design and rapid prototyping.

Education

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (in progress)
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Courses completed:
  • Arithmetic Techniques for DSP Applications
  • Computer Architecture
  • Cryptography and Number Theory
  • Multidimensional Signal Processing
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2005)
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Graduated with Distinction
  • Completed Internship

Work Experience

Research Assistant (May 2003 - August 2004)
ATIPS Laboratory / TRLabs
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Front to back-end ASIC design
  • Implementation of a novel fault-tolerant computation technique
  • Implementation of Built-In Self-Test (BIST)

Publications

  1. I. Steiner, P. Chan, L. Imbert, G.A. Jullien, V.S. Dimitrov, G.H. McGibney. "A Fault-Tolerant Modulus Replication Complex FIR Filter", 2005 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'05), pp. 387-392, July 2005.
  2. P. Chan, G.A. Jullien, L. Imbert, V.S. Dimitrov, G.H. McGibney. "Fault-Tolerant Computation within Complex FIR Filters", 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'04), pp. 316-320, October 2004.

Awards

  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
  • iCORE Graduate Student Scholarship