Chris Chu Professor

Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
                           -- Psalms 34:8

Contact Information:

• Email:
• URL: http://home.engineering.iastate.edu/~cnchu
• Office: Durham 331
• Phone: (515) 294-3490
• Fax: (515) 294-1152
• Mailing address:

     Iowa State University
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
     2215 Coover Hall
     2520 OSBORN DR
     AMES IA 50011-1046
  

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 1993.
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1999.

Research Interests:

• Machine Learning
• Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits;
  ISU VLSI CAD LAB
  Useful VLSI CAD links
• Design and analysis of algorithms;
• Discrete and continuous optimization.

Publications:

• Papers can be downloaded from the publications page.
• Source codes and executables can be download from the links below:
  FastPlace (Newest version 3.0, posted at Dec. 28, 2006)
  FLUTE (Newest version 3.1, posted at Feb. 28, 2011)
  FastRoute (Newest version 4.1, posted at Mar. 11, 2010)
  DeFer (Newest version 1.1, posted at Aug. 20, 2009)
  SafeChoice (Newest version 1.0, posted at Feb. 6, 2010)
  POLAR and POLAR 2.0 (posted at Sep. 3, 2014)