Faculty
Scott Mahlke Comrade Scott busily directs our research group and does so with an IRON FIST!

Graduate Students
Gaurav Chadha Comrade Gaurav works on accelerating medical imaging applications with graphics processors, hoping to one day save lives with nothing more than an Xbox. Comrade Guarav is co-advised by professor Satish Narayanasamy.	Hyoun Kyu Cho Comrade Hyoun Kyu works on dynamic deadlock prevention for multithreaded programs. His research involves advanced control theory and hearty swigs of soju.
Anoushe Jamshidi Comrade Anoushe works on improving performance and energy efficiency of mobile devices. They scurry at his beckoning.	Daya S Khudia Comrade Daya is working on soft-error reliability and fault tolerance in embedded microprocessors.
Janghaeng Lee Comrade Janghaeng is working on dynamic/static compilers for heterogenous multicore architectures.	Andrew Lukefahr Comrade Andrew works with heterogeneous multicore systems. They heed his commands lest they feel his wrath!
Shruti Padmanabha Comrade Shruti is working on processor design and multicore systems. Transistors tremble at her every step!	Jason Park Comrade Jason is surviving his first year of courses with an iron-clad dedication of force!
Yongjun Park Comrade Yongjun is working on coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures.	Mehrzad Samadi Comrade Mehrzad is working on new dynamic/static compilation frameworks for heterogeneous architectures.
Ankit Sethia Comrade Ankit is working on energy efficient architectures for throughput oriented workloads.

Ph.D. Graduates

Amin Ansari Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Overcoming Hard-Faults in High-Performance Microprocessors First employment: NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at UIUC Ganesh Dasika Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Power-Efficient Accelerators for High-Performance Applications First employed at: ARM Ltd Shuguang Feng Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Delivering Affordable Fault-tolerance to Commodity Computer Systems First employed at: Northrop Grumman Shantanu Gupta Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Adaptive Architectures for Robust and Efficient Computing First employed at: Intel Corporation Amir Hormati Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Compiling Stream Applications for Heterogeneous Architectures First employed at: Microsoft Research Mojtaba Mehrara Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Compiler and Runtime Techniques For Automatic Parallelization of Sequential Applications First employed at: Nvidia Corporation Hyunchul Park Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2009 Thesis: Polymorphic Pipeline Array: A Flexible Multicore Accelerator for Mobile Multimedia Applications First employed at: Texas Instruments Yuan Lin Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Realizing Software Defined Radio - A Study in Designing Mobile Supercomputers First employed at: Cavium Networks Kevin Fan Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Automatic Design of Efficient Application-centric Architectures First employed at: Parakinetics, Inc. Manjunath Kudlur Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Streamroller : A Unified Compilation and Synthesis Framework for Streaming Applications First employed at: Nvidia Corporation Hongtao Zhong Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Architectural and Compiler Mechanisms for Accelerating Single Thread Applications on Multicore Processors First employed at: Google Michael Chu Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Cooperative Data and Computation Partitioning for Decentralized Architectures First employed at: Microsoft Corporation Nathan Clark Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Customizing the Computation Capabilities of Microprocessors First employed at: Georgia Institute of Technology Rajiv Ravindran Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Hardware/Software Techniques for Memory Power Optimizations in Embedded processors First employed at: Hewlett Packard Mikhail Smelyanskiy Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2004 Thesis: Hardware/Software Mechanisms for Increasing Resource Utilization on VLIW/EPIC Processors First employed at: Intel Corporation

MS Graduates
Griffin Wright Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2012 First employed at: dSPACE, Inc	Po-Chun Hsu Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 First employed at: Intel Corporation
Jeff Hao Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 First employed at: Google	Steve Lieberman Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2006 First employed at: HSBC
Robert Mullenix Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2006 First employed at: AMD	Pracheeti Nagarkar Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2004 First employed at: Microsoft
Aaron Erlandson Masters in Computer Science, 2003 First employed at: Microsoft

Missing in Action

Jason Blome First employed at: Goldman Sachs

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