PhD Students
19. Ying Fünf Yiu
Dissertation: Pathfinding Algorithm Optimization via Evolution
Graduation: Fall 2020
Employment: Intel Corporation
18. Syed Ali Hasnain
Dissertation: Photonic Reservoir Computing Architecture
Graduation: Fall 2020
Employment: Intel Corporation, Portland
17. Dharanidhar Dang
Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Photonic Architectures for Large-Scale Data Analytics
Graduation: Fall 2018
Employment: Postdoc at UC San Diego
16. Aalap Tripathy
Dissertation: High Performance Information Filtering on Many-core Processors
Graduation: Fall 2013
Employment: Sr. Engineer, Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX
15. Ayan Mandal
Dissertation: Efficient Design and Clocking for a Network-on-Chip (Co-advised Sunil Khatri, ECE)
Graduation: Spring 2013
Employment: Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India.
14. Suneil Mohan
Dissertation: Hardware Architecture for Semantic Comparison
Graduation: Spring 2012
Employment: Intel Labs, Austin, USA
13. Suman K Mandal
Dissertation: Dynamic Power management of High Performance Network on Chip
Graduation: Fall 2011
Employment: Cerebras Systems, San Francisco, CA
12. Nikhil Gupta
Dissertation: Energy Efficient Scheduling for Real-time Systems.
Graduation: Fall 2011
Employment: Intel Labs, Portland, OR
11. Amitava Biswas
Dissertation: Semantic Routed Networks for Distributed Search Engine
Graduation: Spring 2010
Employment: Sr. Engineering Staff, CISCO, San Jose, CA
10. Amar Adnan Rasheed
Dissertation: Security Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink
Graduation: Spring 2010
Employment: Asst. Professor, Department of CSE, Georgia Southern University, Savanah, GA, USA.
9. Jason Daniel Lee
Dissertation: Concurrent Online Testing for Many Core Systems on Chips
Graduation: Fall 2010
Employment: Sr. Engineer, Google, NY.
8. Yoonjin Kim
Dissertation: Design of Efficient Course grained Reconfigurable Architecture
Graduation: Spring 2009
Employment: Associate Professor, Sookmyung Women’s Univ., South Korea.
7. John Yu
Dissertation: Efficient Hashing Schemes for Some Packet Processing Applications
Gradation: Spring 2009
Employment: CISCO CA.
6. Rohit Singhal
Dissertation: Reliable and Low-power On-chip Interconnection (Co-chair: G Choi)
Graduation: May 2007
Employment: Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA
5. Praveen Bhojwani
Dissertation: Communication Synthesis of Network on Chip
Graduation: Dec 2007
Employment: Design Verification Engineer in a start up, CA, USA
4. Di Wu
Dissertation: Layer Assignment in Deep Sub-micron Technology (Co-chair: J. Hu)
Graduation: 2006
Employment: Senior Engineer, Cadence, CA
3. Sudipta Mahapatra
Dissertation: Parallel Formulation of Artificial Neural Network Algorithms for Multiprocessors
Graduation: Fall 1996
Employment: Associate Professor, IIT, Kharagpur.
2. C.R. Tripathy
Dissertation: Dependability Analysis of Parallel Computer Interconnection Networks
Graduation: Fall 1996
Current Employment: Vice-Chancellor, Biju Pattanaik University of Technology, India.
1. B.K. Das
Dissertation: Modeling of Some Image Processing Transforms for Multiprocessor Architectures
Graduation: Fall 1995.
Employment: Director, Defense Research Labs, India
MS Students
28. Mayuresh Basavraj Hooli
Thesis: Data Cleaning on Edge
Graduation: Fall 2019
Employment: Ericsson, Dallas, TX
27. Yashwardhan Narawane
Thesis: An FPGA – based accelerator for distributed SVM training
Graduation: Spring 2018
Employment: NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA
26. Ghanshyam Bhutra
Thesis: Privacy-Preserving ECG based Active Authentication (PPEA2) Scheme for IoT Devices
Graduation: Fall 2017
Employment: Facebook, CA
25. Siddhant Rath
Thesis:Integration of LXD system containers with Open Stack, and its application on a 3-tier Internet of Things architecture.
Graduation: Fall 2017
Employment: IT Manager, Texas A&M University
24. Akash Sahoo
Thesis: Efficient and Secured Framework for Internet of Things based on Motifs
Graduation: Fall 2016
Employment: Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA
23. VNS Prithvi Sakuru
Thesis: QR Decomposition Framework for Efficient Implementation of Linear Support Vector Machines Using Dual Ascent Algorithm
Graduation: Spring 2016
Employment: Amazon, Seattle, WA
22. Biplab Patra
Thesis: Hybrid Router Design for High-Performance Photonic Network-on-Chip
Graduation: Summer 2015
Employment: Intel Corp., Folsom, CA
21. Ka Chon Ieong
Thesis: A Virtual Prototype of Scalable Network-on-Chip Design
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Employment: Intel Corp., Arizona
20. Jaganath Panigrahi
Thesis: Generating Tensor Representation from Concept Tree in Meaning Based Search
Graduation: Spring 2011
Employment: Microsoft, CA
19. Javier Malave Jose
Thesis: A Benchmarking Platform for NoC Multiprocessor System-on-Chip
Graduation: Fall 2010
Employment: Texas Instruments
18. Seraj Ahmad
Thesis: Towards Efficient on-chip Logic Minimization
Graduation: Spring 2006
Employment: Next Generation Sequencing, San Jose, CA
17. Jason Surprise
Thesis: An Energy efficient TCAM Enhanced Cache Architecture
Graduation: Fall 2004
Employment: Principal Engineer, Raytheon, Fort Worth
16. Nitesh Goyal
Thesis: Macro-modeling and Energy Efficiency studies of File Management in Embedded Systems with Flash Memory
Graduation: Fall 2004
Employment: Senior Engineering Manager, Blink Health, Seattle, WA
15. Anuj Kumar
Thesis: Increasing TLB Reach using TCAM Cells
Graduation: Summer 2004
Employment: Principal Engineer, CISCO, CA
14. Subrata Acharya
Thesis: A Dynamic Slack Management Technique for Real-time Distributed Embedded Systems.
Graduation: Summer 2004
Employment: Associate Professor, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland
13. Anand Rajaram
Thesis: Analysis and Optimization of VLSI Clock Distribution Network for Skew Variability Reduction (Co-Chair: Jiang Hu)
Graduation: Summer 2004
Employment: Sr. R&D Engineer, Synopsys, Austin, TX
12. Junyi Ling
Thesis: GPUs: A Case Study in Application Specific Processors
Graduation: Spring 2004
Employment: Pixar Animation Studio, San Francisco, CA
11. V. C. Ravikumar
Thesis: Energy and Storage Efficient IP-Lookup Architecture (Co-Chair: J. C. Liu)
Graduation: Spring 2004
Employment: Hewlett Packard (HP)
10. Rajesh Prathipati
Thesis: Energy Efficient Scheduling Techniques for Real-time Embedded Systems
Graduation: Spring 2004
Employment: LSI Logics, Fremont, CA
9. Praveen Bhojwani
Thesis: Mapping Multimode System Communication to a Network-on-Chip.
Graduation: Fall 2003
Employment: Sun Micro Systems, CA
8. Siddharth Choudhury
Thesis: Macro-modeling and Characterization of Filesystem EnergyConsumption for Diskless Embedded Systems.
Graduation: Summer 2003
Employment: Head engineering, Levyx, Irvine, CA
7. Vijay Rama Pramod Kapagantula
Thesis: PAP- Power-aware Partitioning Framework for HW-SW Co-design
Graduation: Spring 2003
Employment: Sr. Manager, CISCO, Bangalore, India
6. John Wisinger
Thesis: FPGA based Image Processing Accelerator
Graduation: Fall 2002
Employment: Lead Electrical Engineer, Halliburton, Houston, TX
5. Narayanan Swaminathan
Thesis: Communication Synthesis of on-chip Network
Graduation: Summer 2002
Employment: Principal Architect, AMD, Austin, TX
4.Brian Murray
Thesis: Development of an Embedded 3-D Graphic Processor
Graduation: Spring 2002
Employment: VeriSilicon Holding Co. Ltd, Austin, TX
3. Sunil Bhosekar
Thesis: Architecture-Level Power Estimation & Optimization using Complete Simulator
Graduation: Fall 2001
Employment: Hardware Design Engineer, Apple, Austin, TX
2. Rahul Katoria
Thesis: A Power-Aware Partitioning of HW-SW Codesign , (Co-Chair with TC Wang)
Graduation: Fall 2001
Employment: Executive Director, Moelis & Company, Houston, TX
1. Srikant Kasturi
Thesis: An Optimized Datalink Layer, (Co-Chair with N. Reddy)
Graduation: Fall 2001
Employment: Texas Instruments
Undergraduate Advising
3, Stephen Hansen
NSF REU Fellow (Summer 2004), University Research Fellow (Fall 2004-Spring 2005); Honorable Mention in the CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate National Award for 2004.
2. Allen Parish
Undergraduate Research Scholar (Fall 2004 – Spring 2005).
1, Amarachi Okorie
Engineering Scholar Program (Spring 2002) and Summer Research Fellow 2002.