Work Experience

• Sandia National Laboratories: Albuquerque, NM
  Senior Software Engineer, R&D Computer Science

  Jan 2018 – Present

  • Senior Software Engineer, R&D Computer Science.
  

• University of Arkansas: Fayetteville, AR
  Graduate Research Assistant

  August 2012 – December 2017

  • Designed digital circuits and systems for ultra-low power design, extreme temperatures, hardware security, asynchronous logic, and 3D ICs.
  • Developed software tools for designing asynchronous circuits and 3D circuits.
  • Research Lab System Administrator (2014 – 2017)
  

• Hewlett-Packard: Houston, TX
  Software Engineer Intern, Tools and Automation Team

  June 2015 – August 2015

  • Provided support and maintenance for the Storage Automation Tool (SAT), a critical infrastructure tool used by 6 internal HP teams. (Perl, HTML, JavaScript)
  • Incorporated build configurations for Jenkins, CI system, to automatically build and test all SAT applications. Increased developer productivity by automatically handling the building and testing process.
  • Developed and deployed a password reset web application to support 65,0000 HP Inc. employees. (ASP.net, C#, HTML, JavaScript, Active Directory, IIS)
  

• University of Arkansas: Fayetteville, AR
  Undergraduate Researcher

  January 2011 – May 2012

  • Research Fellowship: Analysis of Digital Circuits under Extreme Temperatures
  • Android Development: SmartDrive – Cloud Enabled Mobile System for Safe Driving
  • Angry Prims: Interfacing with the Virtual World via Microsoft Kinect and SecondLife
  

Education

• PhD Computer Engineering
  University of Arkansas

  December 2017
  GPA: 4.00
  

  Awards: Doctoral Academy Fellowship

• M.S. Computer Engineering
  University of Arkansas

  Dec 2015
  GPA: 4.00
  

  • Graduate: System Level Design, Integrated Circuit Design, Hardware Security, Low Power System Design, VLSI Design

• B.S. Computer Engineering (Highest Distinction)
  Minor: Mathematics
  University of Arkansas

  May 2012
  GPA: 3.95
  

  Awards: Dean's List, Chancellor's List, Governor's Scholarship, Chancellor's Scholarship (2008-2012)
  • Undergraduate: Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Mobile System Programming, AI

Conference Publications

• • Di, Jia & Bell, Brent & Bouillon, William & Brady, John & Le, Thao & Lo, Chien-Wei & Men, Liang & Nelson, Spencer & Sabado, Francis & Suchanek, Andrew. (2017). Recent Advances in Low Power Asynchronous Circuit Design. Journal of Low Power Electronics. 13. 280-297. 10.1166/jolpe.2017.1494.
  
  • Habimana J., Sabado, F., and Jia Di, "Multi-Threshold Dual-spacer Dual-rail Delay-insensitive Logic: An Improved IC Design Methodology for Side Channel Attack Mitigation". IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems 2016. 11 August 2016
  
  • Caley, L., Chien-Wei Lo, Sabado, F., Jia Di, "A comparative analysis of 3D-IC partitioning schemes for asynchronous circuits," IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp.1,4, 28-30 May 2014
  
  • Sabado F. and Jia Di, “Comparison of Asynchronous and Synchronous Digital Circuits under Extreme Temperatures.” State Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). May 2011
  
  

Technical Reports

• • Francis Sabado. "Asynchronous 3D (Async3D): Design Methodology and Analysis of 3D Asynchronous Circuits". Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2584/ Dec. 2017
  
  • Francis Sabado. “3D IC Integration,” Technical Report. University of Arkansas, Dec. 2015
  
  • Francis Sabado. “Asynchronous Fused Floating Point Complex Multiplier,” Technical Report, University of Arkansas, April 2015.