Current Research Projects and Students

Approximate computing (with Profs. Kulkarni and Thottethodi) Nitin

Data parallel architectures (with Profs. Kulkarni and Thottethodi) Di Mo

Processing near memory (with Prof. Thottethodi) Nitin (looking for students)

Architectural options beyond Moore's Law (looking for students)

Architectural support for datacenter networks (with Prof. Thottethodi)

Consistency in geo-distributed sytems (with Profs. Rao and Thottethodi)

I have been funded by NSF, SRC, Intel, NEC, DARPA, and Google. My industry collaborators include IBM, Google, Intel, NEC, and Microfluidic Innovation.

Graduated Students

Brannon Batson (MSECE 2000): Reactive Associative Caches

• First employment: Alpha group (at Compaq, now at Intel)

• First employment: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Chad Scarbrough (MSECE 2004): Fault-tolerance bandwidth reduction techniques for chip multiprocessors

• First employment: Cisco

Chen-Yong Cher (PhD 2004): Exploring and evaluating control-flow and thread-level parallelism

• First employment: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Michael Powell (PhD 2005): Microarchitectural Techniques for Power-related issues in Scaled Technologies

• First employment: Intel Fault-Aware Computing (FACT) Group

Jahangir Hasan (PhD 2006): Efficient and Scalable Hardware Techniques for Edge and Core Routers

• First employment: Google

Zeshan Chishti (PhD 2007): Techniques to address wire-delay issues in future microprocessors

• First employment: Intel

Ethan Schuchman (PhD 2007): Defect-tolerant architectures

• First employment: Intel

Eric Chun (MSECE 2008): Shapeshifter: Dynamically changing pipeline width and speed to address process variations

• First employment: Intel

Ahmed Amin (PhD 2011): Programmable Architecture and Compiler for Microfluidics

• First employment: Microfluidic Innovations

Faraz Ahmad (PhD 2013): Improving MapReduce Performance in Large-scale Clusters

• First employment: TeraData

Syed Ali Jafri (PhD 2013): Improving multicore resource efficiency and performance

• First employment: ARM

Gwendolyn Voskuilen (PhD 2014): Multicore memory system architectures for programmability and verifiability

• First employment: Sandia

Hamza Sohail (PhD 2015): Architectural techniques to extend multicore scaling

• First employment: Apple

Balajee Vamanan (PhD 2015): Performance and energy optimizations for online data-intensive applications and packet classification

• First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Di Mo (MSECE 2015): under submission

• First employment: Microsoft