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 doing a thesis with me (plan A), you need to take at least ECE401 (and obtain an A).

Current students:

Ph.D. Students:

1. ★Aaron Carpenter
   

2. ★Alok Garg
   

3. ★Jing Xue
   

4. ★Raj Kumar Parihar
   

5. ★Xin Li (co-advised with Prof. Kai Shen)
   

M.S. research advisees:

1. ★Nate McBean
   

2. ★Bo Pang
   

3. ★Ravi Patel
   

Graduated students:

Ph.D.

1. 1. M. Wasiur Rashid, 2008
   

2. Thesis: “Highly-Decoupled Thread Level Redundancy”
   

3. First job: Staff Engineer, nVidia
   

M.S.

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

1. 9. Ashay Narsale, 2008
   

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

3. Publication: [ISQED’09]
   

4. First job: System Architect, Intel
   

5. 8. Hongzhou Zhao, 2008
   

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

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

8. 7. Jiasheng Shi, 2008
   

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

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

11. 6. Srinivas Vaidyanathan, 2008
    

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

13. First job: Staff Verification Engineer, Broadcom
    

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

15. Thesis: “Interaction between Communication-based and Capacity-based Coherence  Protocol Optimizations”
    

16. First job: CPU Architect, Intel
    

17. 4. Regana Noor, MS 2007
    

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

19. Publication: [TC’09]
    

20. 3. Ruke Huang 2005
    

21. Publication: [HPCA’06]
    

22. First job: Staff Engineer, Microsoft
    

23. 2. Liem Tran, 2004
    

24. Publication: [ISPASS’04]
    

25. First job: Performance Analysis Engineer, Intel
    

26. 1. Fung Ngai (Monty), 2004
    

27. Publication: [ISPASS’04]
    

28. First job: Staff Engineer, Wells Fargo