One of the important benefits of being in academia is that I get to interact with students early in their career and can potentially make significant and positive impacts on their future career and life. Unlike many ECE/EE departments with a very large faculty size, Rochester offers a unique environment that is conducive to student-faculty interaction and multi-disciplinary research.

For graduate applicants:

If you are interested in joining my group, please follow the department instructions and apply to the graduate program formally. Once you are “in the system”, I’ll be able to review your credentials and get in touch with you.

For MS students:

If you are looking for a thesis topic or a research project and are interested in topics related to computer architecture, including VLSI and devices, you are welcome to join my group and we have a range of interesting topics for you to explore. If you are considering do a thesis with me (plan A), you need to take at least ECE401 (and obtain an A).

Current students:

PhD Students:

1. ★Richard Afoakwa
   

2. ★Sushant Kondguli
   

3. ★Arnab Sarkar
   

4. ★Anshujit Sharma
   

5. ★Uday Reddy Vengalam
   

6. ★Ruhuang Zheng
   

MS Student(s):

Graduated students:

PhD

1. 5. Raj Kumar Parihar, 2016
   

2.     Thesis: Accelerating Decoupled Look-ahead to Exploit Implicit Parallelism
   

3.     First job: Principal Design Engineer, Cadence
   

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5. 4. Aaron Carpenter, 2012
   

6.     Thesis: The Design and Use of High-Speed Transmission Line Links for Global On-
   

7.     Chip Communication
   

8.     First job: Assistant Professor, ECE, Binghamton University
   

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10. 3. Xin Li, 2012
    

11.     Thesis: To the Better Understanding of the Properties and Impact of Memory
    

12.     Hardware Errors
    

13.     First job: Software Engineer, Google
    

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15. 2. Alok Garg, 2011
    

16.     Thesis: Exploring Performance-Correctness Explicitly-Decoupled Architectures
    

17.     First job:  Senior Design Engineer, AMD
    

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19. 1. M. Wasiur Rashid, 2008
    

20. Thesis: Highly-Decoupled Thread Level Redundancy
    

21. First job: Staff Engineer, NVIDIA
    

MS

(those who have done significant research work and have a thesis and/or publications)

1. 10. Jing Xue, 2010
   

2.     Publication: [ISCA’10]
   

3.     First job: Engineer, NVIDIA
   

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5. 9. Ashay Narsale, 2008
   

6. Thesis: “Variation-Tolerant Hierarchical Voltage Monitoring Circuit for Soft Error Detection”
   

7. Publication: [ISQED’09]
   

8. First job: System Architect, Intel
   

9. 8. Hongzhou Zhao, 2008
   

10. Thesis: “Memory Buffer Element Optimization for Decoupled Thread Level Redundancy”
    

11. First job: PhD candidate in Computer Science, Rochester
    

12. 7. Jiasheng Shi, 2008
    

13. Thesis: “Binary Analysis and Optimization for Explicitly Decoupled Architectures”
    

14. First job: PhD candidate in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
    

15. 6. Srinivas Vaidyanathan, 2008
    

16. Thesis: “Practicality of Single Event Effects Detection using Thin-Films: A Study”
    

17. First job: Staff Verification Engineer, Broadcom
    

18. 5. Nitin Bhardwaj, 2008 (Co-advised with Prof. Sandhya Dwarkadas)
    

19. Thesis: “Interaction between Communication-based and Capacity-based Coherence
    

20. Protocol Optimizations”
    

21. First job: CPU Architect, Intel
    

22. 4. Regana Noor, MS 2007
    

23. Thesis: “Exploiting Timing Properties of Memory Access for Efficient Dependence Enforcement”
    

24. Publication: [TC’08]
    

25. 3. Ruke Huang, 2005
    

26. Publication: [HPCA’06]
    

27. First job: Staff Engineer, Microsoft
    

28. 2. Liem Tran, 2004
    

29. Publication: [ISPASS’04]
    

30. First job: Performance Analysis Engineer, Intel
    

31. 1. Fung Ngai (Monty), 2004
    

32. Publication: [ISPASS’04]
    

33. First job: Staff Engineer, Wells Fargo