Faculty
		Jianwen Zhu leads the synthesis group.
	Current PhD Students
		Rami Beidas completed his bachelor degree at South Ampton in England. He joined the group in January 2002. His research interest is in platform-based design. He is a member of the Diamond project. He is currently focusing on high level synthesis algorithms.
		Silvian Calman completed his bachelor degree at University of Toronto. He joined the group in September 2002. His research interest is in program analysis and compiler. He is a member of the Quanton project. He is currently focusing on loop based program analysis and optimization algorithms.
		Wai Sum Mong completed her bachelor degree at University of Toronto. She joined the group since May 2001. Her research interest is in retargetable compilation of embedded software and high speed simulation. She is currently a member of both the Diamond project and the Matrix project. She is currently focusing on the implementation of hardware carrying code.
		Andrew Ling was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980. He moved to Canada in 1982 where he was raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Here, he received his Bachelors of Science Computer Engineering with distinction from the University of Alberta in April of 2003. In September 2005, Andrew Ling received his Master's in Applied Science from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Stephen D. Brown (Master's Thesis). His research interests include CAD for EDA, specifically focused for FPGAs. Currently, Andrew is the President of the ECE Graduate Student's Society and Publications Chair for the Computer Group at the University of Toronto.
	Current MASc Students
		Huimin Bian received B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2000. Since then, she was a technical staff in Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. and later, Magma Design Automation, Inc. in 2003 when Aplus was acquired by Magma, where she was mainly reponsible for FPGA/CPLD Device and Interconnect Delay Modeling for the PLD physical synthesis tool PALACE(TM). Huimin is pursuing the M.A.Sc degree in Computer Engineering since September 2005.
	Dearly Missed
		Bin Wu completed his bachelor and master degrees at Xian Jiaotong University of China. He joined the group since September 2001. His research is in CAD for low power design. He completed his PhD thesis in 2006.
		Dennis Wu completed his bachelor degree in the Engineering Science program of University of Toronto. He worked as undergraduate research assistant in the summers of 2001 and 2002. He officially joined the group in September 2002 and completed his MASc thesis in December 2004. He is the main contributor of the FBDD project. He is now a staff engineer of Xilinx.
		Kushwinder Jasrotia completed his bachelor degree at University of Toronto. He joined the group in September 2000. He studied the Stacked FSMD microarchitecture and completed his MASc thesis in July 2003. He is now a designer engineer in Sasken Communication, Bangalore, India.
		Maghsoud Abbaspour was a visiting PhD student from University of Tehran in 2000-2001. He contributed early studies of binary manipulation tools for embedded software. He is now a researcher at school of computer science, IPM, Iran.