Song Liu

EECS Department
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University

Tel: (847) 491-2086 (o)
E-mail: sli646 AT eecs DOT northwestern DOT edu

Research Interests

Educations

2002 - 2006 BS.EE Tsinghua University
2006 - 2011 (expected) PhD.CE Northwestern University

Working Experiences

Sep. 2010 - Dec. 2010 Internship at Facebook Inc.
Work as a software develop engineer (SDE) in the Platform Infrastructure group.
June 2010 - Sep. 2010 Internship at Microsoft Redmond
Work as a software develop engineer (SDE) in the SQL Server group.
June 2009 - Sep. 2009 Internship at Software Design & Implementation group at Microsoft Research.
Design and evaluation Flicker system, which, as far as we know, is the first system that intentionally lowers hardware reliability for power savings.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2010 Instructor of Engineering Design and Communication (EDC)
Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant of Numerical Method for Engineers
Winter 2010 Teaching Assistant of Fundamentals of Computer Programming 2

Publications

Journal

[TVLSI] Song Liu, Yu Zhang, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Memik
An Approach for Adaptive DRAM Temperature and Power Management, Apr. 2010, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems Volume 18, Issue 4
[TODAES] Rajarshi Mukherjee, Song Liu, Somsubhra Mondal, and Seda Ogrenci Memik
A high-level clustering algorithm targeting dual Vdd FPGAs, Sep. 2008, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Volume 13, Issue 4

Conference

[HPCA'11] Song Liu, Brian Leung, Alexander Neckar, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Memik, Nikos Hardavellas
Hardware/Software Techniques for DRAM Thermal Management, Feb. 2011, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
[ASPLOS'11] Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda, Benjamin Zorn
Flikker: Saving DRAM Refresh-power through Critical Data Partitioning , Mar. 2011, International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System
[DATE'11] Feng Lu, Russ Joseph, Goce Trajcevski, Song Liu
Efficient Parameter Variation Sampling for Architecture Simulations , Mar. 2011, Design, Automation & Test in Europe
[DAC'08] Song Liu, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Yu Zhang, Gokhan Memik
A Power and Temperature Aware DRAM Architecture, June 2008, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC)
[ICS'08] Song Liu, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Yu Zhang, Gokhan Memik
An Approach for Adaptive DRAM Temperature and Power Management, June 2008, ACM International Conference on Supercomputing

Technical Reports and Work in Progress (WIP)

[MSR-TR] Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda, Benjamin Zorn
Flicker: Saving Refresh-Power in Mobile Devices through Critical Data Partitioning 2009, Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2009-138, 2009
[SOSP'09 (WIP)] Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda, Benjamin Zorn
Flicker: Refresh Power Reduction in DRAMs by Critical Data Partitioning, Oct. 2009, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

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