I am a Doctoral Candidate majoring in Statistics with a concentration on Statistical Learning (Machine Learning). I have had prior working experience as an Component Design Engineer in a major semiconductors MNC. I am passionate about technology and education, with strong technical skills, and experience in teaching. In my free time, I enjoy photography, paper craft, music and mountains. I would be an avid gamer, but since I lack the necessary twitch reaction needed for most games, and I stay mainly with strategy and role-playing games. I am very opinionated on religion, theology, philosophy, politics, sociology, and believe strongly in social justice and welfare of children.
| Website | https://www.nicklim.com |
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| Address | G3.02, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Waikato, 3210 Hamilton East, Hamilton, New Zealand |
I was responsible for the teaching duty for first year undergraduate students, in addition to test supervision and grading of assessments. I am often called upon by department and scholarships department in to provide 1 on 1 tutoring for students who require additional help.
Additionally, I have also assist the faculty as a community ambassador. My primary roles include in introducing the Mathematics and Statistics department in a fun, intuitive and engaging manner to the community in Hamilton, and communicate with the community regarding the value of a degree in Mathematics and Statistics to the industry and society.
I was primarily responsible for the development and maintenance of EDA tools and methodology development for Power Estimation, optimization, simulation for Custom ASIC Designs. These ASIC design is used in consumer and enterprise computers and other computing devices such as smartphones and tablets.
In particular, I was responsible for IBIS and Timing .LIB modeling of Custom ASIC Design. The software I maintain ensure that the design conforms to the performance and power specification of customers and while streamlining the design process to improve the productivity of the engineers.
During my employment I have been awarded several technical and departmental achievement awards for my both my contribution to projects and the company's bottom line as well for my role in improving the work environment for the employees.
University of Waikato
My Research is on the Ensemble learning of High-Dimension Datasets, in the field of statistical learning. I am currently supported by the University of Waikato Doctoral Scholarship.
University of Waikato
My research was on The star decomposition of bipartite graphs, in the field of combinatorics. I was awarded the A Zualauf studentship for Masters students. Additionally I am also admitted into the Golden Keys Honour Society. I graduated with a First Class Honours with an overall GPA of 8.25/9.0
Multimedia University
I was a multiple entrant into the Dean's List, and the runner up of the Intervarsity Engineering Competition in my Second Year of my course. I completed my degree with a First Class Honours, and a GPA of 3.67/4.00
Lim, J. S. (2015). Star Decompositions of Bipartite Graphs (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10289/9303
Lim, J. S. (2015). Star Decompositions of Bipartite Graphs (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10289/9303
SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2009 International System on Chip Conference, Busan, South Korea Process technologies generate increasing challenges for layout efficiency at the 65nm process. This has increased the reliance on standard cell library development in order to simultaneously meet the demand of today's tight design schedules. However due to IP-specific design constraints, customized logic cells are frequently necessary to achieve design closure. We explore a design flow that efficiently characterizes a standard cell for power, timing and reliability considerations within custom design, and further synthesizes promising circuit alternatives using a spec-driven optimization approach through transistor level sizing. This methodology provides a unique ability for determining tradeoffs between physical design and circuit design challenges.
Electronic Materials and Packaging, 2007. EMAP 2007. International Conference on Electronic Materials and Packaging, Daejon, South Korea
Electronics Packaging Technology Conference, 2008. EPTC 2008. 10th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference, Singapore This paper presents a comprehensive core power delivery excitation modeling approach, covering from complex pre-silicon hand estimate to simple post-silicon reverse engineering. Blending the two approaches, an optimized method is recommended to provide the most appropriate method in deriving the next generation core currents for power delivery analysis.
Some of my miscellenous work.