Paul Franzon
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Graduate Programs
Cirrus Logic Distinguished Professor
Monteith Engineering Res.Ctr. 443
919-515-7351 paulf@ncsu.eduBio
My teaching and research focuses on building microsystems (systems constructed of silicon chips, both analog and digital, and silicon micomachined components) for applications in computing, communications, sensors, robotics, and signal processing.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering University of Adelaide, Australia 1988
Bachelor's Electrical Engineering University of Adelaide, Australia 1984
Bachelor's Physics and Mathematics University of Adelaide, Australia 1982
Area(s) of Expertise
Quantum Information Science and Engineering
Physical Electronics, Photonics & Magnetics
Networking
Electronic Circuits and Systems
Computer Architecture and Systems
Publications
- 3-D Stacking for AI Systems: Emulating Heterogeneous 3-D Architectures for AI , IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (2025)
- 3D Guard-Layer: An Integrated Agentic AI Safety System for Edge Artificial Intelligence , SSRN Electronic Journal (2025)
- 3D Stacking for AI Systems: Emulating Heterogeneous 3D Architectures for AI , SSRN Electronic Journal (2025)
- A 27–30 GHz T/R Module With Reflection-Type Phase Shifting and Machine-Learned Calibration , IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (2025)
- A Conditional Diffusion Framework for Sample-Efficient Thermal Modeling in 3DICs , (2025)
- Q2SV: A High‐Level Synthesis Approach for State Vector Quantum Simulation , Quantum Engineering (2025)
- Analyzing Quantum Circuit Depth Reduction with Ancilla Qubits in MCX Gates , 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) (2024)
- Can Low-Rank Knowledge Distillation in LLMs be Useful for Microelectronic Reasoning? , 2024 IEEE LLM Aided Design Workshop (LAD) (2024)
- High-Speed Receiver Transient Modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks , 2024 IEEE 33rd Microelectronics Design & Test Symposium (MDTS) (2024)
- RD-FAXID: Ransomware Detection with FPGA-Accelerated XGBoost , ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (2024)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- 2007 - Australian Defence Medal
- 2007, 2005 - ECE Graduate Teacher of the Year Award (NC State)
- 2007 - ECE Most Helpful Teacher of the Year Award (NC State)
- 2006 - ECE Teacher of the Year Award (NC State)
- 2006 - IEEE Fellow
- 2005 - ALCOA Distinguished Research Award (NC State)
- 2003 - Alumni Undergraduate Distinguished Professor (NC State)
- 2003 - NSW Australia Expatriate Scientist Award
- 2001 - Academy of Outstanding Teachers (NC State)
- 1997 - IEEE Student Branch, Teacher of the Year (NC State)
- 1993 - NSF Young Investigators Award
- 1990 - US Army Commendation Medal