Alvin Cheung

Intelligent Information Systems Group
IBM Almaden Research Center

VLSI Research Group
Computer Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

• Digital circuit optimization using convex optimization
• Multiprocessor systems (Note: webpage has not been updated for a while...)
• Parallel computing

• Keyboard concertos of the early eighteenth century
• Late Classical / Early Romantic piano fantasies
• Late Baroque subscription patterns
• Harmonic patterns in Impressionalist music

• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 2004
• B.S. Electrical Engineering with Honors and University Distinction, Stanford, 2003
• B.S. Computer Systems Engineering with University Distinction, Stanford, 2003
• B.A. Music with University Distinction, Stanford, 2003

• Software Framework for CMOS Circuit Optimization Using Convex Optimization, Stanford M.S. Thesis
• A New Method for Design of Robust Digital Circuits, Proc. of the 6th Intl Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), March 2005, pages 676-681.
• A System for Translating P3P Privacy Policies into FGAC Restrictions, submitted to ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data 2005.
• Unraveling RFID Networks (R. Agrawal, A. Cheung, K. Kailing, S. Schoenaur), submitted ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data 2006 (under review).