Leoric Luo

• Design a 4-bit “Absolute-value Comparator” with leveraged delay(1.5 min delay) and energy cost by scaling both logic gate sizing (CMOS size relatives to the reference size) and supply voltage(Vdd).
• Use only static logic (CMOS, pass-transistor logic) to build common logic gates and achieve desired function. Critical path is identified for use of optimization on delay and energy cost. Use matlab and Excel solver function to observe the pattern between energy cost and delay with respect to sizing and VDD change.

• Review paper writing of potentials of OEIC(Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits).
• Contribution to the paper: Abstract writing, introduction of OEIC, Application of it in integrated circuits, comparison of OEIC and PIC, and their application in various sectors including communication, sensing, and biomedical applications.

Video Game Mario-party design

• Design and implement the operation of the game Mario Party: load the board info, actor positions, and set up a two-minute timer that count down the remaining playing time.
• Implement all functions of actors and events when one interact with the other by landing on the same square.
• Run the game successfully in the final stage and players had great fun playing it.

Search engine design.

• design a movie search engine that also does actor, genre, and director related recommendation.

Assembly code reverse-engineering

• Diffuse a "bomb" inside a program by compile the program and read through assembly code. Exploit input to avoid detonate the bomb.
• Use buffer overflow or inserting executable assembly code to hack the program and do things desirable.

Microprocessor and Memory Hierarchy Simulation

• Use C++ to simulate a simple RISC-V CPU that support simple R-type, I-type, load, store and branch instructions.
• Use C++ to simulate Memory Hierarchy and data flow between L1, L2 victim caches and main memory.

ECE3:Write Arduino code and upload to "race-car" to apply control keeping the car from deviating the track.

• Collect sensor parameters to design coefficient of controls
• Achieve the fastest car in the class that finish the track in 14.64 s.

UCLA IEEE Project: Design a maze-solving micro-mouse to escape a maze in shortest amount of time.

• Use 360Fusion for schematic design, solder PCB based on scheme, and code on STM32CubeIDE that control the MCU on the mouse.

• Use FCN, and CNN to train and improve the performance of model on classifying the CIFAR-10 dataset.
• Use RNN and CNN to train and improve the performance of a model on classifying actions produced by different subjects using data from electroencephalography (EEG). Create and compare performance of CNN, RNN, CNN+RNN architectures