Student Mentoring and Advising

Graduate Students Advising

 Ph.D. Students Graduated (Current Position)

1.      B. K. Das, Ph.D. 1995, Student at IIT Kharagpur, Title: Modeling of Some Image Processing Transforms for Multiprocessor Architecture, (Deputy Director, Defense Research Development Organization, India).

2.      Sudipta Mohapatra, Ph.D. 1996, Student at IIT Kharagpur, Title: Some Studies on Mapping of Neural Network Models onto Parallel Architectures”, (Asst. Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur).

3.      C. R. Tripathy Ph.D.1996, Student at IIT Kharagpur, Title: Dependability Analysis of Parallel Computer Interconnection Networks”, (Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Sambalpur University).

4.      Di Wu, “Layer Assignment in Deep Sub-micron Technology” (Staff Engineer, Cadence Ltd, San Jose, CA, since June 2005), (Co-chair: Jiang Hu, EE).

Current Ph.D. Students, Topics (Expected Completion Date)

5.      Praveen Bhojwani, “Communication Synthesis in Network on Chip”   (Fall 2006)

6.      Rohit Singhal, “Reliable and Low-power On-chip Interconnect” (Fall 2006, Co-Chair: Gwan Choi, EE)

7.  Ranjani Sridharan, “Real-Time Embedded Systems”, (Fall 2007)

8. Jason Lee, “Test & Validation of Embedded Systems”, (Fall 2008)

9. John Mark Nolen, SoC Testing

New Students from 2006 Fall (Univ Came from)

10. John Heeyeol Yu, (MS, University of California, Los Angeles)

11. Ryan Yu, (MS, KAIST, Korea)

12. Amitava Biswas, (MS, Concordia University, CA)

13. Suman Kalyan Mondal, (B.Tech, IIT Kharagpur)

14. Amar Adhan Rasheed (MS, Brown University)

 

MS Students Thesis Advising (Chair) at Texas A&M with their Current Employer

1.      Seraj Ahmad, “High Performance IP Lookup Architecture for Network Routers”, Fall 2005.

2.      Jason Surprise, “An Energy Efficient TCAM Enhanced Cache Architecture”, Fall 2004; (Raytheon)

3.      Nitesh Kumar, “Macro-Modeling and Energy Efficiency Studies of File Management in Embedded Systems with Flash Memory”, Fall 2004; (Amazon).

4.      Anuj Kumar, “TCAM Enabled TLB Architecture”, August 2004; (Microsoft)

5.      Subrata Acharya, “Dynamic Slack Management in Real-time Distributed Embedded Systems”, August 2004; (Ph.D. Student at University of Pittsburgh).

6.      Anand Rajaram, “Analytical Bound for Unwanted Clock Skew due to Wire Width Variation”, May 2004 (Co-Chair: Jiang Hu); (Texas Instruments)

7.      Junyi Ling, “A Graphic Architecture for Ray Tracing and Photon Mapping”, May 2004; (Ph.D. Student at University of California, Irvine).

8.      Ravikumar V. C, “An Energy Efficient TCAM based Router Architecture”, December 2003; (Hewlett Packard)

9.      Rajesh Prathipati, “Energy Efficient Slack Distribution Technique in Real-Time Embedded Systems”, December 2003.

10.  Praveen Bhojwani, “Synthesis of Interfaces in Network on Chip”, August 2003; (Ph.D. Student at TAMU).

11.  Siddhartha Choudhuri, “Energy Characterization and Analysis of File Systems for Diskless Embedded Systems”, August 2003, (Ph.D. student at Univ. of California, Irvine).

12.  Vijay Rama Pramod K, “PAP: Power Aware Partitioning of Reconfigurable System”, December 2002, (Co-Chair: A N Reddy).

13.  John Wisinger, “FPGA Based Image Processing Accelerators”, December 2002; (INVOCON Inc, Houston).

14.  Narayanan Swaminathan, “Communication synthesis of On Chip Network”, August 2002; (Texas Instruments).

15.  Brian Murray, “Development of a 3D Embedded Graphic Processor”, May 2002; (Motorola, Austin).

16.  Sunil Bhosekar, “Architecture-Level Power Estimation & Optimization using a Complete Simulator”, December 2001; (Dallas Semiconductor Ltd.).

17.  Rahul Katoria, “A Power-Aware Partitioning of HW-SW Codesign”, August 2001 (Intel).

18.  Srikant Kasturi, “An Optimized Data Link Layer”, May 2001, Co-Chair: A N Reddy; (Hewlett Packard).

Undergraduate Student Research  Mentoring

·        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.
·        Allen Parish, Undergraduate Research Scholar (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005).
·        Amarachi Okorie, Engineering Scholar Program (Spring 2002) and Summer Research Fellow 2002.