School of Engineering

Yannick L. LeCoz
Associate Professor

Department Affiliation:

Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering

M.S., The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical Engineering

Background:

Le Coz joined the Rensselaer faculty full-time in 1988 as an assistant professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering. He was awarded a tenured associate professorship in 1995. Le Coz has been a visiting faculty member at LSI Logic Corporation and at Sandia National Laboratories. He has been named a Digital Equipment Corporation Fellow, a General Motors Scholar, and a Connecticut State Scholar, and has received awards from the American Cyanamid Company and PerkinElmer, Inc. Le Coz is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and the American Physical Society.

Research Interests:

Le Coz's research interests include transport in semiconductor devices, equilibrium heterojunction theory, and random-walk and Monte Carlo algorithms for the physical design of ICs. His research team is focusing on inventing and developing novel, stochastic algorithms for solving electro- and magneto-static, electrodynamic, and thermal equations in massively coupled electrical and optical IC-interconnect structures. A principal goal of his research is to maintain full parallelism, which will provide the efficient computational enhancement needed to meet future modeling and simulation requirements in high-end digital ICs.

Team members are currently working on stochastic impulse-response moment-extraction algorithms. They are developing these novel algorithms for both lumped-element and continuum-domain descriptions of IC interconnects. Their approach involves diagrammatic expansion of a perturbation series (similar to that employed by R.P. Feynman in theoretical physics) and subsequent stochastic evaluation.

Le Coz's research sponsors include, or have included, the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and LSI Logic Corporation (LSI).