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Biography

Blurb: A globetrotting, venturesome cultural chameleon using EECS skills for good: pursuing U.N. SDGs.

Zhiyang Ong is a globetrotting, venturesome cultural chameleon tackling challenges related to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, using a skill set that spans electrical engineering and computer science. He is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University’s electrical & computer engineering department. He is currently working on noise-based logic and embedded deep learning, and had worked on problems in electronic design automation, VLSI formal verification, satisfiability modulo theories, network science (or complex systems), evolutionary computation, network optimization, and multi-objective optimization. He has also designed multiple VLSI circuits and systems, from SRAMs and processors to a Viterbi decoder and a tree adder. In his free time, he was recently working on solving the Quadratic Travelling Salesman Problem (QTSP) with his research collaborators, using an adiabatic quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. In addition, he is a member of MSC CAMAC (at Texas A&M University), which plans and hosts events to celebrate traditions of different Latinx subcultures as well as raises awareness of issues facing the Latinx community on campus and in the surrounding community.

Zhiyang Ong is:

• A venturesome cultural chameleon
• A third culture adult
• A multilingual globetrotter
• A global citizen
• An IEEE-HKN member
• A poet
• A former student athlete – He ran track and cross country at the University of Adelaide, and ran cross country at the University of Southern California.
• A former squatter in the backwaters of electronic design automation
• A volunteer inching the world closer to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

My pronouns are: he/him/his.

Research Interests

Current/Recent Research Interests

• Noise-based logic
• Embedded computer vision
• Deep learning
• Electronic design automation
• Formal verification
• Satisfiability modulo theories
• Microarchitecture

Former Research Interests

• Complex systems
• Network science
• Evolutionary computation
• Network optimization
• Multi-objective optimization

Research Publications

My list of research publications can be found here.

My Google Scholar Profile

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6390-909X

Contact Information

My email address is found in this link.

Miscellaneous Information

Outreach resources

Resources (including scholarships) for broadening participation of women an underrepresented groups in science and engineering, especially electrical/computer engineering and computer science (EECS)

These aforementioned resources also include speeches that I wrote and gave at opening and closing ceremonies of a retention program, MSC CAMAC’s Mi Casa Es Su Casa program, for Latinx and first-generation college students at Texas A&M University.

Additional resources:

• Suggestions for Writing Research Proposals to Get Funding
• Suggestions for IEEE and ACM Members to Create Research Funding for Women

Notes and Other Resources

Random notes on collaboration networks, including my Erdős number

Random notes about social networks: A complex systems perspective

A repository for my LaTeX templates. This contains templates for LaTeX documents that I tend to create, LaTeX structures that I tend to use (such as tables, lists, and figures), and LaTeX commands.

Presentation slides for various talks/presentations that I have given

Other helpful information:

• Use Print Friendly & PDF to print web pages \cite{Norrish20XY}
• Study notes
  • Python, and generic programming (generics)
  • Notes about Scala, sardegna-scala
  • Notes about R, rosario-r
  • Notes about GNU Octave, gulyas-scripts
  • Notes about LaTeX, SienaLaTeX
  • Notes about using UML to model real world systems, networks, and phenomena
  • Notes about Ruby
  • Information about Texinfo
• Call for Paper/Participation deadlines
• Miscellaneous notes
  • Notes about declaratively specifying and drawing diagrams and baklava-graphics: A repository for experimenting with drawing figures/graphics with computer languages.
  • Notes about the Markdown Syntax
  • Notes about the English language
  • UNIX-like Operating Systems:
    • Generic information for using UNIX-like operating systems; boilerplate-code
    • Information for SSH connections, via the aforementioned OSes.
• Guidelines and suggestions for collaborating with others, including myself
  • To access the LaTeX source code for the document containing guidelines for collaborating with others, including an associated Makefile, see the Guidelines for Collaboration repository.

Calls for Participation

Preliminary Call for Participation: Secure ASIP Design Automation Group

Preliminary Call for Participation: Secure ASIP Design Automation Group

Call for Co-Organization of Hardware Security Problems for Research Contests

Call for co-organization of hardware security problems for research contests, including benchmark suites for the ISPD Contest and the CAD Contest @ ICCAD

Check out this respository for research contests that I am trying to co-organize.

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View this in my GitHub repository

You can also view GitHub profile to access other GitHub repositories for my projects.

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Writing Style

LaTeX notation shall be used for typesetting information that cannot be adequately expressed in Markdown.

Similarly, BibTeX shall be used to cite resources used.

Old Projects

My list of old projects can be found here.

Work in Progress

• gulyas-scripts
• Embedded deep learning for object detection and image recognition
• bibtex-analytics
• 2018-wannabe-postdoc-1 (Genetic Technology Mapping)
• 2018-wannabe-postdoc-2 (Genetic Circuit Tuning)
• boilerplate-code

HTML script to show the location of people who are accessing my Web page.

References

Primarily, I used Markdown to design/develop this web page \cite{Nguyen2014}.

I used \cite{Xie2017,Gruber2004} as references for Markdown.

The list of references, in BibTeX format, used.

Citations/References that use the LaTeX/BibTeX notation are taken from my BibTeX database (set of BibTeX entries).

Additional references not found in the reference list shall be indicated below (TO BE UPDATED).

Author Information

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) <2016> Zhiyang Ong

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Email address: echo “cukj -wb- 23wU4X5M589 TROJANS cqkH wiuz2y 0f Mw Stanford”

awk ‘{ sub(“23wU4X5M589”,”F.d_c_b. “) sub(“Stanford”,”d0mA1n”); print $5, $2, $8; for (i=1; i<=1; i++) print “6\b”; print $9, $7, $6 }’

sed y/kqcbuHwM62z/gnotrzadqmC/

tr ‘q’ ‘ ‘

tr -d [:cntrl:]

tr -d ‘ir’

tr y “\n” Don’t compromise my computing accounts. You have been warned.