Tao Xu Ph.D.
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| Senior DFT Engineer |
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| Cisco Systems |
Engineering |
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| Morrisville |
NC |
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| USA |
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Tao Xu received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 2007 and 2008. Currently, he is a Senior DFT Engineer at Cisco Systems, Morrisville, NC. His research interests include design and testing of mixed-technology microsystems, electronic design automation, mixed signal very large-scale integrated design, microelectromechanical systems modeling and simulation. He has published 11 conference papers and six journal papers. Dr. Xu was the Best Paper Award winner at the 20th International VLSI Conference.
Education
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005; M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2007, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2008
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