Faculty
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- Viktor K. Prasanna, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering
- Director, Center for Energy Informatics (CEI)
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Division
and Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D.Students
- Sasindu Wijeratne, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Memory Optimizations, Tensor Decomposition, Graph analytics, FPGA
- Recent Publications: FPGA ’23, GEOProcessing ’23, DATA ’22
- Tian Ye, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Machine Learning, FPGA
- Pengmiao Zhang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Sequence Modeling, Data Prefetching
- Recent Publications: SC ’23, SC ’22, CF ’22
- Ta-Yang Wang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Deep Learning, Tensor Decomposition, Graph Neural Networks
- Recent Publications: GNNet ’22, DATA ’22
- Yang Yang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Homomorphic Encryption, FPGA
- Jason Lin, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Machine Learning Systems, Graph Neural Network
- Ömer Faruk Akgül, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Neural Networks
- Samuel Wiggins, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: AI Acceleration, Heterogeneous Computing, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Nikunj Gupta, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: (Single-agent) (Multi-agent) (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
- Sachini Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: FPGA based acceleration, Memory optimization
- Zhihan Xu, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Homomorphic Encryption, FPGA
- Yuhong Liu, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Communication Network, Machine Learning
- Yuxin Yang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Representation Learning
- Dhruv Parikh, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: FPGA acceleration of AI algorithms
- Gangda Deng, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Machine Learning, CPU/GPU-based Acceleration
- Xu Wang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Adversarial AI, Data Mining
- Feiyu Zhu, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Neural Network and Machine Learning
- Jebacyril Arockiaraj, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: FPGA based acceleration, Networks
- Anvitha Ramachandran, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Power profiling for machine learning workloads in datacenters
- Ludwika Twardecka, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: GNNs, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles
- Haoyang (Eason) Fan, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: FPGA/GPU-based Acceleration, Computer Architecture
- Rakshith Jayanth, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: LLM Acceleration, Heterogeneous Computing
Directed Research Students/Interns
- Neelesh Gupta
- Jacob Fein-Ashley
Alumni
| Bingyi Zhang (Fall 2024) | Research Scientist, Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA |
| Hongkuan Zhou (Fall 2024) | Research Scientist, Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA |
| Yuan Meng (Fall 2024) | Research Scientist, AMD, Santa Clara, CA |
| Chi Zhang (Fall 2022) | Research Scientist, ByteDance, Shanghai |
| Hanqing Zeng (Fall 2022) | Research Scientist, Meta AI, CA |
| Kartik Lakhotia (Summer 2021) | Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA |
| Chung Ming Cheung (Summer 2021) | Software Engineer, NVIDIA, CA |
| Angelos Lazaris (Spring 2020) | Chief Data Scientist, Pixalate, CA |
| M. Rizwan Saeed (Summer 2019) | Data Scientist, Walmart Labs |
| Shijie Zhou (Fall 2018) | Microsoft, Redmond, WA |
| Ajitesh Srivastava (Fall 2018) | Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, CA |
| Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (Fall 2018) | Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, OH |
| Charith Wickramaarachchi (Fall 2017) | Software Engineer, Google |
| Ren Chen (Fall 2017) | Staff Data Engineer, Huawei America Artificial Intelligence Research Lab |
| Greg Harris (Spring 2017) | Senior Quantitative Researcher, Fenrir LLC |
| Yinuo Zhang (Summer 2017) | Software Engineer, Teradata, El Segundo, CA |
| Om Patri (Spring 2017) | Data Scientist, Sense360 Inc., Culver City, CA |
| Da Tong (Fall 2016) | Software Engineer, Google Inc., San Francisco, CA |
| Alok Kumbhare (Fall 2015) | Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Inc, Seattle, WA |
| Saima Aman (Fall 2015) | Founder, Rehma LLC, San Diego, CA |
| Yun Qu (Summer 2015) | Staff Research Design Engineer, Xilinx, San Jose, California |
| Qunzhi Zhou (Summer 2014) | Software Engineer, Apple Inc, San Francisco, CA |
| Charalampos Chelmis (Fall 2013) | Assistant Professor, University at Albany-SUNY, NY |
| Thilan Ganegedara (Summer 2013) | Software Development Engineer, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA |
| Nam Ma (Summer 2013) | Data Scientist, Misfit, San Francisco, CA |
| Na Chen (Summer 2013) | Research Scientist, Facebook Inc., CA |
| Jing Zhao (Fall 2012) | Member of Technical Staff, Hortonworks Inc., Palo Alto, CA |
| Edward Yang (Fall 2011) | Staff Research Engineer, Xilinx Research Labs → Software Engineer, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA |
| Hoang Le (Fall 2011) | SWA, Google, CA |
| Yinglong Xia (Fall 2010) | Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY |
| Weirong Jiang (Fall 2010) | Staff Research Engineer, Xilinx Research Labs |
| Qingbo Wang (Summer 2010) | Research Engineer, Hitachi San Jose Research Center, San Jose, CA |
| Fan Sun (Summer 2010) | Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, WA |
| Tao Zhu (Summer 2010) | Software Engineer, Google Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
| Ramakrishna Soma (Fall 2008) | Math Modeling Analyst, Chevron, San Ramon, CA |
| Cong Zhang (Fall 2008) | System Analyst, Chevron, Houston, TX |
| Animesh Pathak (Spring 2008) | Head of Research and Development, MyKaarma, Los Angeles, CA |
| Ling Zhuo (Spring 2007) | System Analyst, Chevron, Houston, TX |
| Ronald Scrofano (Fall 2006) | Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA |
| Gerald R. Morris (Fall 2006) | Computer Scientist, |
| Zachary Baker (Spring 2006) | Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Lab, Faculty at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM |
| Jingzhao Ou (Spring 2006) | Xilinx Inc., San Jose, CA |
| Sethavidh Gertphol (Fall 2005) | Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Mitali Singh (Fall 2005) | Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Amol Bakshi (Fall 2005) | Solution Architect, Chevron, Houston, TX |
| Bo Hong (Spring 2005) | Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA |
| Yang Yu (Spring 2005) | VP Engineering, ReZolt Corporation |
| Reetinder Sidhu (Fall 2004) | Satyam Computer Systems Ltd., India |
| Seonil Choi (Spring 2004) | Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ |
| Neungsoo Park (Spring 2003) | Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Andreas Dandalis (Fall 2001) | Senior Member of Technical Staff, Innovative Silicon |
| Kiran Bondalapati (Spring 2001) | Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Sunnyvale |
| Ammar Alhusaini (Fall 2000) | Assistant Professor, Kuwait University, Kuwait |
| Prashanth B Bhat (Summer 1999) | Principal Engineer, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Jin-Woo Suh (Summer 1999) | Computer Scientist, ISI East, Arlington, VA |
| Myungho Lee (Spring 1999) | Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Myong Ji University, South Korea |
| Charles Wenheng Liu (Summer 1998) | Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles. |
| Yongwha Chung (Summer 1997) | Senior Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Architecture Team, ETRI, Korea. |
| Young Won Lim(Spring 1997) | Senior Engineer, System IC, Korea. |
| Jong Woo Bae (Summer 1996) | Assistant professor, Myong-Ji university, Seoul |
| Cho-Li Wang (Summer 1995) | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. |
| Cho-chin Lin (Summer 1995) | Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, National ILan University, Taiwan. |
| Muhammed Shaaban (Fall 1993) | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. |
| Heonchul Park (Spring 1993) | Sr. Staff Engineer, Infineon Technologies (Siemens Microelectronics Inc.). |
| Ashfaq Khokhar (Spring 1993) | Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Ju-Wook Jang (Spring 1993) | Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Sogang University, Korea |
| Anil Rao (Fall 1992) | Senior Software Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm |
| Manavendra Misra (Spring 1992) | Senior Director, Business Intelligence and Development, KBkids, Denver, CO |
| Wei-Ming Lin (Summer 1991) | Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Engineering; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Kichul Kim (Summer 1991) | Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, The University of Seoul, Korea. |
| Hussein Alnuweiri (Spring 1989) | Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada. |
| Dionisis Reisis (Fall 1988) | Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Also serves as a Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. |
| Mary Eshaghian (Fall 1988) | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Long Beach. |
| Yu-Chen Tsai (Summer 1988) | Senior Software Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. |