------------------------start here ---------------------------------- Xinping Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2005. He obtained his B.S.E. degree in Automation from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1999. His research focuses on developing modeling and simulation tools for advanced multiprocessing general purpose and embedded processors, with emphasis on the on-chip communication architectures. ------------------------end here------------------------------------