Recent Researchers
Eun-Sung Kim, Visiting Professor
Graduated Ph.Ds
Dr. Fatemeh Azmandian
Aug. 2012, First ((or Current) Position: EMC Corporation
Learning at the Virtualization Layer: Intrusion Detection and
Workload Characterization from within the Virtual Machine Monitor
Prof. Emmanuel Arzuaga,
Dec. 2011, First (or Current) Position: Asst. Professor,
UPRM, Mayaguez, PR
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:
Dissertation: Investigating the Utility of Software Semantics for Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems
Dr. Ke Ning, May 2007, First (or Current) Position: NVIDIA
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:
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
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