NUCAR

Prof. David Kaeli
Norman Rubin
Gunar Schirner
Elmira Karimi
Nicolas Bohm Agostini
Malith Jayaweera
Zlatan Feric
Derek Rodriguez
Julian Gutierrez
Trinayan Baruah
Yuhui Bao
Kaustubh Shivdikar
Matin Raayai Ardakani
Michael Shen
Aditi Purandare

Graduated Ph.Ds

Dr. Shi Dong : August, 2020. First (or Current) Position: Cerebras Systems

Dissertation: Exploring High Performance Deep Neural Networks on GPUs. [pdf]

Dr. Yifan Sun : August, 2020. First (or Current) Position: William & Mary

Dissertation: Enabling Collaborative Heterogeneous Computing. [pdf]

Dr. Xun Gong : June, 2020. First (or Current) Position: Quantum

Dissertation: Hint-Assisted Scheduling on Modern GPUs. [pdf]

Dr. Saoni Mukherjee : June, 2020. First (or Current) Position: Dell EMC

Dissertation: A Power Modeling Approach to Protect GPUs from Side-Channel Attacks. [pdf]

Dr. Charu Kalra : August, 2019. First (or Current) Position: Google

Dissertation: Compiler-based Resilience Prediction and Enhancements for GPU Applications. [pdf]

Dr. Fritz Previlon : August, 2019. First (or Current) Position: ARM

Dissertation: Characterization and Remediation for Soft Error Reliability on GPU. [pdf]

Dr. Leiming Yu : May, 2019. First (or Current) Position: Analogic

Dissertation: Multilevel Interference-aware Scheduling on Modern GPUs. [pdf]

Dr. Akshay Lahiry : August, 2018. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Exploring Compression in the GPU Memory Hierarchy for Graphics and Compute. [pdf]

Dr. Xiang Gong : August, 2018. First (or Current) Position: a start-up

Dissertation: Improving GPU Performance through Instruction Redistribution and Diversification. [pdf]

Dr. Xiangyu Li : August, 2018. First (or Current) Position: Standard and Poor, Global

Dissertation: Exploiting Large-scale Data Analytics Platforms with Accelerator Hardware. [pdf]

Dr. Mohammad Tavana : March, 2018. First (or Current) Position:

Dissertation: Architectural Support for Designing Dependable Non-volatile Main Memories. [pdf]

Dr. Navid Farazmand : March, 2018. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for 3D Graphics Applications on the State-of-the-art Mobile GPUs. [pdf]

Dr. Amir Momeni : May, 2017. First (or Current) Position: Qualcomm

Dissertation: Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism on Reconfigurable Architectures: a Cross-Layer Approach. [pdf]

Dr. Fanny Nina Paravecino : March, 2017. First (or Current) Position: Intel

Dissertation: Characterization and exploitation of nested parallelism and concurrent kernel execution to accelerate high performance applications. [pdf] [slides]

Dr. Zhongliang Chen : February, 2017. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Scalar-Vector GPU Architectures. [pdf]

Dr. Amir Kavyan Ziabari : December, 2016. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Improving the Global Memory Efficiency in GPU-Based Systems. [pdf]

Dr. Tom McCormick : April, 2016. First (or Current) Position: Chief Engineer, Swissbit AG

Dissertation: Ultra-Reliable Flash Memory Systems for Embedded Applications. [pdf]

Dr. Enqiang Sun : April, 2016. First (or Current) Position: Staff Engineer, Qualcomm

Dissertation: Cross-Platform Heterogeneous Runtime Environment. [pdf]

Dr. Yash Ukidave : December, 2015. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Architectural and Runtime Enhancements for Dynamically Controlled Multi-Level Concurrency on GPUs. [pdf]

Dr. Esra Yolacan : October, 2014. First (or Current) Position:

Dissertation: Learning from Sequential Data for Anomaly Detection. [pdf]

Dr. Perhaad Mistry : April, 2014. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Architectural Support for irregular programs and performance monitoring for heterogeneous systems.

Dr. Dana Schaa : April, 2014. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Improving the cooperative capability of heterogeneous processors.

Dr. Ayse Yilmazer : December, 2014. First (or Current) Position: AMD

Dissertation: Micro-architectural Support for Improving Synchronization.

Dr. Jennifer Mankin : December, 2014. First (or Current) Position: Intel

Dissertation: Classification Of Malware Persistence Mechanisms using Low-artifact Disk Instrumentation.

Dr. Rodrigo Dominguez : April, 2013. First (or Current) Position: Qualcomm

Dissertation: Dynamic Translation of Runtime Environments for Heterogeneous Computing.

Dr. Malak Alshawabkeh : April, 2013. First (or Current) Position:

Dissertation: Hypothesis Margin Based Weighting for Feature Selection Using Boosting: theory, algorithms and applications.

Dr. Fatemeh Azmandian : August, 2012. First (or Current) Position: EMC Corporation

Dissertation: Learning at the Virtualization Layer: Intrusion Detection and Workload Characterization from within the Virtual Machine Monitor.

Prof. Emmanuel Arzuaga, : December, 2011. First (or Current) Position: Asst. Professor, UPRM, Mayaguez, PR

Dissertation: Using Live Virtual Machine Migration to Improve Resource Efficiency in Virtualized Data Centers.

Dr. Byunghyun Jang, Dec. 2010, First (or Current) Position: Asst. Professor in Computer Science, University of Mississippi
    Dissertation: Evaluation and Enhancement of Memory Efficiency Targeting General-Purpose Computations on Scalable Data-Parallel GPU Architectures

Dr. Vilas Sridharan, May 2010, First (or Current) Position: AMD
    Dissertation: Introducing Abstraction to Vulnerability Analysis

Dr. Micha Moffie, May 2008, First (or Current) Position: IBM Israel
    Dissertation: Investigating the Utility of Software Semantics for Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems

Dr. Ke Ning, May 2007, First (or Current) Position: Qualcomm
    Dissertation: System-Level Memory Power and Performance Optimization for System-on-a-Chip Embedded Systems

Dr. Yijian Wang, Dec. 2006, First (or Current) Position: NetApp
    Dissertation: Modeling and Acceleration of File-IO Dominated ParallelWorkloads

Dr. David Morano, Apr. 2006, First (or Current) Position:
    Dissertation: Exploring Instruction Level Parallelism Using Resource Flow Execution

Dr. Huanmei Wu, May 2005, First (or Current) Position: Associate Professor of Computer Information Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI
    Dissertation: Time-based Indexing of Multidimensional Databases

Dr. Morteza Fayyazi, Apr. 2005, First (or Current) Position:
    Dissertation: Fault-Tolerant and Efficient Cluster Switch Architecture

Dr. Marcos de Alba, Apr. 2005, First (or Current) Position: Intel
    Dissertation: Exposing Instruction Level Parallelism in the Presence of Loops

Dr. Jennifer Black, Aug. 2003, First (or Current) Position: Mathworks
    Dissertation: Multi-criteria Data Flow Testing

Dr. Alireza Khalafi, Jun. 2003, First (or Current) Position:
    Dissertation: Exploring Multipath Execution on a Distributed Microarchitecture

Dr. John Kalamatianos, Jan. 2000, First (or Current) Position: AMD
    Dissertation: Microarchitectural and Compile Time Optimizations for Performance Improvement of Procedural and Object Oriented Languages

Dr. Amir Hooshang Hashemi, May 1996, First (or Current) Position:
    Dissertation: Efficient Procedure Mapping for Improved Cache Performance

Graduated Masters

Xiangyu Li, MS 2014, First (or Current) Position: pursuing PhD
    Thesis: Accelerating Mahout On Heterogeneous Clusters Using HadoopCL

Sam Coe, MS 2013, First (or Current) Position: Indiegogo

Ryan Whelan, MS 2012, First (or Current) Position: MIT Lincoln Labs
    Thesis: Architecture-Independent Dynamic Information Flow Tracking

Yash Ukidave, MS 2012, First (or Current) Position: pursuing PhD
    Thesis: Exploring Power Efficiency and Optimizations Targeting Heterogeneous Applications

Matthew Sellitto, MS 2011, First (or Current) Position: Start-up Company
    Thesis: Exploring GPU Computing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis

Kulin Seth, MS 2011, First (or Current) Position: Qualcomm

Joshua Hodosh, MS 2010, First (or Current) Position: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Kin Kone Kito First (or Current) Position: EMC Corporation

Yunho Yang, MS 2009, First (or Current) Position: EMC
    Project: Memory Forensics on Linux Embedded System

Perhaad Mistry, MS 2009, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Project:

Jenny Mankin, MS 2009, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Thesis: Software Transactional Memory for Multicore Embedded Systems

Dana Schaa, MS 2009, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Thesis:

Sarmad Edward George, MS 2009, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Project: CPU Single-event Upset Tolerance

Zhaoqian Chen, MS 2008, First (or Current) Position: AMD
    Thesis: Performance Evaluation and Characterization of Virtual Appliances

Wassim Bassalle, First (or Current) Position: Analog Devices
    Thesis: Optimization of Cryptographic Algorithms on an Embedded Architecture

Derek Uluski, First (or Current) Position: VMware
    Thesis: Real Time Anti-virus for a Virtualized Environment

Burak Erem, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Thesis: Interactive Deformable Registration Visualization and Analysis of 4D Computed Tomography

Seth Molloy, First (or Current) Position: Analog Devices
    Thesis: Energy Conservation Techniques for the Blackfin Processor

Fatemeh Azmandian, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Thesis: The Chart Checker: Applying DataMining Techniques to Detect Major Errors in Radiotheraphy Treatment Charts

Michael Benjamin, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: A Study of Video Processing using Stream Computing on Blackfin Processors

Brian Mullins, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Soft Errors in Storage Systems

Diego Rivera, First (or Current) Position: Hologic
    Thesis: Accelerating Sparse Matrix Computations

Vilas Sridharan, First (or Current) Position: pursuing Ph.D
    Thesis: Soft Errors in Cache Memories

Kaushal Sanghai, First (or Current) Position: Analog Devices
    Thesis: A Code Layout Framework for Embedded Processors with a Configurable Memory Hierarchy

Darren Ng, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Aspect Oriented Garbage Collection

Anita Thomas, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Value Prediction with Perceptrons

Stephen VanderSanden, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Developing Power-Aware Strategies for Embedded DSPs

Deniz Balkan, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Side-Effects of Value Speculation on Branch Resolution and Performance in Out-of-Order Superscalar Microprocessors

Murat Bicer, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: A Software Communications Architecture Compliant Software Defined Radio Implementation

Songqing Zhang, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: BDSPTune: Binary-level Instrumentation of the SHARC DSP

Efe Yardimci, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Profile-guided Heap Layout

Hakan Aydin, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Exploring the Effects of Cache Line Coloring and Procedure Inlining

Philip Sailer, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: YIFAN is a Pure RISC in a Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit

Manpreet Singh, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Scalable Interconnects and Topologies for High Performance ICDSs

Ying Liu, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: A Channel Routing Algorithm for 3-D VLSI

Hua Huang, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: A Buffering Scheme for Improved BSD Fast File System Performance

Kyle Bowers, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Characterization of the Java Virtual Machine

Mekalu Teshome, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: I/O Cache Structures and System Performance

Jason Casmira, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Operating System Rich Workload Characterization

Tracy Tao, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Branch Prediction With Branch History Chain Table for Wide-Issue Superscalar Processors

Svetlana Sokolova, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Static Branch Prediction Using High-Level Control Structure

Mona Dimitri, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Cache Pointer-Based Prefetching for Complex Data Structures

John Fraser, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Cache Analysis in a Multiprocess Environment Using Execution Driven Simulation

Himanshu Sinha, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Non-blocking Caches in Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Samson Belayneh, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: The Effect of Balanced Instruction Scheduling on the Performance of Non-Blocking Caches

Yue Liu, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Analysis of Branch Directed Data Cache Prefetching

Angela Sampogna, First (or Current) Position:
    Thesis: Architectural Implications of C and C++ Programming Models