Evangeline Young received her B.Sc. and M.Phil. degree in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She continued her graduate studies in the States, and accepted Jesus on Oct 20, 1996. She received her Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include CAD of VLSI circuits, algorithms and combinatorial optimization. She is now working actively on floorplan design optimization, interconnect prediction, and 3D floorplanning.

• Voltage Island Generation
• Analog Placement
• Interconnect Prediction
• Bus-driven floorplanning
• 3-D Floorplanning
• Shuttle Mask Floorplanning

• International Symposium on Physical Design
• Physical Design Top-10 Research Problems