Ph.D. Candidate Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL, US
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By Nakasion Gin:
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), working under the supervision of Dr. Natasha Devroye and Dr. Wenjing Rao.
My research focuses on physically unclonable functions (PUF) and deep-learned error-correcting codes.
I obtained my master's degree from UIC in May 2018 and my bachelor's degree from Northeastern University, China, in June 2017.
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05/21/2025: I successfully passed my PhD defense!
05/2025: I received my first teaching evaluation.
Enrollment: 71. Completed evaluations: 52. Rate the instructor’s overall teaching effectiveness. 4.19/5.0. Rate the overall quality of the course. 4.35/5.0. Rate the overall difficulty of the course 3.04/5.0 (5 most difficult).
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05/2025: I received Inclusive Education Scholars Certificate!
04/2025: I received COE Exceptional Teaching Promise Award!
02/2025: One paper on salvaging APUF was accepted to IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS). I will present my paper in-person.
01/2025: I serves as an instructor for ECE 265 Introduction to Logic Design course. I have 71 students!
08/2024: I became a teaching assistant for the Computer Organization course.
05/2023: I received the CoE Exceptional Research Promise Award!
01/2023: I became a teaching assistant for the Hardware Description Language Based System Design course.
11/2022: One paper on APUF production line faults was accepted to DATE.
05/2022: I successfully defended my PhD proposal!
04/2022: One paper on interpreting deep-learned codes got accepted to ISIT.
11/2021: One paper on APUF instance faults got accepted to DATE.
06/2021: Into the Explainable AI (XAI) world, collaborates with Dr. Miloš Žefran and Dr. György Turán.
05/2020: I passed the PhD Qualifying Exam in two topic areas: telecommunications and signal processing!
11/2019: Into the Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) world - collaborates with Dr. Wenjing Rao.
07/2018: I started working on the binary multiplying channel (BMC) rate region with Dr. Natasha Devroye.