Students

Information for Prospective Students

I am currently looking for PhD students interested in doing research on cutting edge issues related to embedded and cyber-physical systems, multicore computing, machine learning, security, mobile computing, autonomous vehicles, and exascale/datacenter computing. In particular, I am looking for students with the one or more of the following skill set:

  • programming with one or more of the following: C/C++/Python/SystemC
  • embedded, IoT, and computer architecture design
  • (deep) machine learning
  • optimization algorithms
  • mobile computing
  • programming in VHDL or Verilog
  • good communication skills, including proficiency in writing technical papers

If you are already a student at CSU, send me an email with your Resume/CV and what research topics you are interested in (you may want to look at my research page). If you are interested in joining CSU, please first apply to the CSU program through the appropriate channels, and send me an email with the details mentioned above.

Current Graduate Students

  • Shoumik Maiti (PhD, 2014-)
  • Febin Sunny (PhD, 2019-)
  • Asif Mirza (PhD, 2019-)
  • Kamil Khan (PhD, 2019-)
  • Amin Shafiee (PhD, 2021-)
  • Danish Gufran (PhD, 2022-)
  • Sirui Qi (PhD, 2022-)
  • Salma Afifi (PhD, 2023-)
  • Jason Crop (PhD, 2023-)
  • Chris Langlois (MS, 2016-)
  • Jordan Tunnell (MS, 2017-)
  • Abhishek Balasubramaniam (MS, 2019-)
  • Christian Westbrook (MS, 2022-)
  • Pooja Anandathirtha (MS, 2023-)
  • Janaki Subramani (MS, 2023-)
  • Akhil Singampalli (MS, 2023-)
  • Justin Sanchez (MS, 2023-)

Graduated Students

  • Shirish Bahirat (PhD, 2014), Nvidia
  • Yong Zou (PhD, 2014), Synopsys
  • Yi Xiang (PhD, 2015), Synopsys
  • Nishit Kapadia (PhD, 2015), Consultant
  • Mark Oxley (PhD, 2016), Numerica
  • Yahav Biran (PhD, 2017) Electronic Arts
  • C Sai Vineel Reddy (PhD, 2018), Micron
  • Daniel Dauwe (PhD, 2018), Google
  • Ishan Thakkar (PhD, 2018), Asst. Prof., Univ. of Kentucky
  • V. Yaswanth Raparti (PhD, 2019), AMD
  • Vipin K. Kukkala (PhD, 2022), Nvidia
  • Saideep Tiku (PhD, 2022), Micron
  • Ninad Hogade (PhD, 2023), HP Labs
  • Brad Donohoo (MS, 2012), US DoD (Northrop Grumman)
  • Miguel Salas (MS, 2012), Intel Corporation
  • Tejasi Pimpalkhute (MS, 2013), Micron Technology
  • Viney Ugave (MS, 2014), IBM
  • Yuhang Li (MS, 2014), Micron Technology
  • Srinivas Desai (MS, 2014), Avago
  • Manoj Kumar  (MS, 2015), Dimension Consulting Inc.
  • Nanda K. Chandrasekar (MS, 2014), Cogent Technology
  • Eric Jonardi (MS, 2015), Rockwell Automation
  • Haneet Mahajan (MS, 2016), IAV Automotive Engineering, Inc
  • Onkar Gulvani (MS, 2016), Bosch USA
  • Jingjie Zhu (MS, 2016), CableLabs
  • Taylor Santiago (MS, 2016), Intel
  • Surya Vamsi Vemparala (MS, 2016)
  • Sai Kiran Koppu (MS, 2017), Intel
  • Rohit Kudre (MS, 2017), CEMML
  • Ebenezer Reniflal (MS, 2017), Nokia
  • Aditya Khune (MS, 2017), Dell EMC
  • Zemin Tao (MS, 2018), Amazon
  • Ninad Hogade (MS, 2018), HPE
  • Ayush Kumar (MS, 2018), Qualcomm
  • Swapnil Bhosale (MS, 2018), HP
  • Rohan Jhaveri (MS, 2018), HPE
  • Varun Kilenje (MS, 2018), Qualcomm
  • Bharadwaj Gorthy (MS, 2018), Milwaukee Tools
  • Blake Troksa (MS, 2019), Amazon
  • Ravi Teja Jagarlapudi (MS, 2020), Intel
  • Mohit Balany (MS, 2021)
  • Sooryaa Vignesh Thiruloga (MS, 2021), NVIDIA
  • Joydeep Dey (MS, 2021), Cisco
  • Liping Wang (MS, 2022), PhD, CSU
  • Salma Afifi (MS, 2023), HPE

Past Visitors

  • Prof. Gu Haiyun, Shanghai Maritime University (2010)
  • Soohyun Kwon (PhD, 2008-), Kyungpook National University (2009-2010)
  • Prof. Kangchul Kim, Chonnam University, Korea (2010-2011)
  • Prof. Myeong-jin Lee, Korea Aerospace University, (2013-2014)