Wen-Fu Kao

Department of Computer Science
University of California at Davis

Office: 2211 Kemper Hall
Email: wkao@ucdavis.edu


I am a PhD student under Professor S.Felix Wu's supervision. My current research field is architecture support for system security with an emphasis on the system recovery. I am working on a project for architectural-level I/O event dependency to assist system recovery. Besides my study, I work for Intel in CPU architecture group in Folsom. Our team is working on future generation of Pentium M processor. My current project at work is related to Mobile 3D Graphics and Video architecture.
 
Research Interest
Virtualization for System Security Enhancement
Proactive Architecture for Multimedia Embedded Systems
Graphics Architecture
3D Graphics Workload Characterization
Power Aware Computing Systems
High Performance Computer Architecture

Education
I received my Master degree in Computer Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. I worked with Professor Ing-Jer Huang in Embedded Systems Laboratory (previously Computer Architecture and Design Automation Lab). My master thesis is Instruction Set Retargeting based on Machine State Transition. I received my Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Tamkang University, Taiwan.

Publication

Proactive Energy Optimization Algorithms for Wavelet-based video codecs on Power-Aware Processors
Venkatesh Akella, Mihaela van der Schaar, Wen-Fu Kao
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo, 2005

A Machine State Transition Approach to Instruciton Retargeting for Embedded Microprocessors
Ing-Jer Huang, Wen-Fu Kao
Journal of Design Automation for Embedded Systems, pp. 153-177, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Instruction Retargeting Based on State Pair Notation
Ing-Jer Huang, Wen-Fu Kao
Proc. of Asia and Pacific Conference on Hardware Description Languages, Aug. 1997