Current Ph.D. Students  Ph.D. Graduates  |  M.S. Thesis Students

Current Ph.D. Students:

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  • Vishwanath Sairaman, Low Power High Performance Embedded Systems, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Narender Hanchate, Leakage Power Analysis and Optimization, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Upavan Gupta, Framework for Resource Management in Multi-Crisis Environments, Ph.D. Candidate.
  • Elizabeth Horton, VLSI Design Automation, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Mahalingam Venkataraman, VLSI Design Automation, Ph.D. Student
  • Ashwath Oruganti, VLSI Design Automation, Ph.D. Student
  • Michael Pham, VLSI Design Automation, Ph.D. Student
  • Soumyaroop Roy, Hardware Software Co-Design, Ph.D. Student, Jointly with Dr. S. Katkoori, CSE
  • Kevin Rojas, Hardware and Software for SKIN Interface, IGERT Ph.D. Fellow, Jointly with Dr. R. Sankar, E.E.

    Ph.D. Graduates:

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  • Saraju P. Mohanty, High Level Synthesis of Low Power High Performance Datapath Designs, graduated Dec 2003; Assistant Professor, Uni. of North Texas, Denton.
  • Ashok Murugavel, Power Estimation and Optimization in CMOS VLSI Circuits, August 2003, Senior CAD Engineer, Intel Corporation, Hillsborough, Oregon.
              - SIGMA XI Tampa Bay Chapter Outstanding Dissertation Award
              - USF Graduate Council Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • Sanjukta Bhanja, Power Estimation in CMOS Circuits Using Bayesian Networks, July 2002, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Dept of EE.
  • R. Venkatramana, Partitioning and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing Systems, May 2000, Senior Design Engineer, Honeywell Inc., Clearwater, FL.
  • Abdel Ejnioui, Routing and Partitioning in FPGA-based Emulation Systems, August 1999; Assistant Professor, School of EECS, Uni. of Central Florida, 2001.
  • Hitoshi Oi, Bidirectional Ring Based Multiprocessor, Nov 1999, Senior Architect, HaL Computer Systems, joining FAU as faculty in 2001.
  • R. Chandramouli, Theory and Application of Sequential Detection under Dependence, Jan 1999; Assistant Prof., Dept. of ECE, Iowa State University; Stevens Inst. of Technology, NJ;
              - USF Graduate Council Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • Vijay Krishna, High Level Techniques for Power Estimation, Analysis and Optimization, Jan 1999; Member of Technical Staff, Agilent Research Labs, Palo Alto;
              - USF Graduate Council Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • N. Vijaykrishnan, ”Issues in the Design of a Java Processor”, July 1998; Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, Penn State University, Univeristy Park, PA.
  • V. Ramaswamy, Lossless Image Compression Using Wavelet Decomposition, April 1998; Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ.
  • G. Chiruvolu, Efficient Transportation of VBR Video Traffic in ATM Networks, April 1998; Research Scientist, Alcatel, Richardson, TX.
  • Minesh Patel, RAPID: A Real-Time System for Intelligent Decision Making, Aug 1997; Senior Systems Engineer, Satellite and Advanced Processing Avionics, Honeywell Space Systems, Clearwater, FL.
  • Raghu Sastry, VLSI Architectures for Pattern Matching and Recognition, Aug 94; Senior Member of Technical Staff, Redswitch Inc., Campbell, CA;
              - USF Graduate Council Outstanding Dissertation Award
              - SIGMA CHI Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • K. Hughes, Multi-sensor Based Confidence Measurement Model for Robot Path Planning, May 1994; Faculty, Dept. of ECE, Uni. of Pacific, Stockton, CA.
  • K. V. Namuduri, Gabor Filter Based Models for Low-level Vision, Sept 1992; Associate Professor, Wichita State University, Kansas; previously at CTSPS, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA.

    M.S. Thesis Students:

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  • Adam Francis, Optimization in VLSI Systems Using Non-linear Optimization Techniques, Dec 2005 (Expected).
  • Venkataraman Mahalingam, MSCP Improving Accuracy in Logarithmic Multiplication Using Operand Decomposition, May 2005.
  • Abhijeet Lothe, 3-D Virtual Reality Rendering of Human Body, July 2005.
  • Brian Hayes, Instruction Scheduling for Low Power, May 2005.
  • Vasanth K. Ramesh, Scheduling in Heterogenous Systems Using Game Theory, May 2005.
  • Neeta Singh, Compiler-Level Power Optimization, March 2005.
  • Rashmi Shetty, Nash Equilibrium Solution and Software Tool for Dynamic Environments, Dec 2004.
  • Upavan Gupta, Multi-event Crisis Management in Urban Environment, Dec 2004.
  • Prashant Dhongale, Power Optimization at Instruction Level, Dec 2003.
  • Karthik Balakrishnan, A VLSI System for Digital Watermarking in Images, Dec 2003.
  • Ravi Namballa, CHESS: A High Level Synthesis Tool for CMOS Circuits, May 2003.
  • Narender Hanchate, A New Technique for Leakage Reduction in CMOS Circuits, May 2003.
  • O. Eizenchtadt, Parallel Clustering in a Heterogenous Computing Network, November 2002.
  • Sunil Chappidi, Dynamic Scheduling for Heterogenous Computing Systems, Dec 2002.
  • K. Sitaraman, VLSI for Pattern Matching, Dec 2001.
  • H. Ramamurthy, RTL Level Power Estimation for Control Path Circuits, August 2000.
  • P. Shenoy, Physical Design of FPGAs, Dec 1999.
  • S. Srinivasan, Synthesis for Low Power, Aug 2001.
  • A. Pannikar, ”A Partitioning Algorithm for Delay driven scheduling of Field Programmable Gate Arrays”, July 1999 (Uni. of Texas at El Paso).
  • Ashok Murugavel, ”A Fast and Accurate Technique for Estimation of Average Power in Digital CMOS VLSI Circuits”, July 1999 (Uni. of Texas at El Paso).
  • V. Mistry, ”A VLSI Architecture for Data Encryption”, Jan 1999.
  • Wallon Henriques, ”A New Algorithm for Coloring Classic B/W Movies”, April 1998.
  • S. Chavali, ”A Sequential Linear Power Estimator Algorithm for CMOS Circuits”, Oct 1998.
  • S. Ragothaman, ”A VLSI Chip for Motion Estimation”, Jan 1999.
  • S. Kumar, ”Adaptive Quantization for Video Compression and Transmission”, Dec 1997.
  • V. Sundaresan, ”A VLSI Chip for Discrete Cosine Transform Computation”, Dec 1997.
  • R. Gadekarla, ”A New Profiling Tool for JAVA Execution”, Dec 1997.
  • S. Crasta, ”A New Algorithm for Lossless Compression of Text Databases”, Dec 1997.
  • P. Singh, ”A new DCT Algorithm and its VLSI Architecture for MPEG-II Audio Layer Standard”, May 1997.
  • R. Anand, ”A VLSI Chip for Buffer Allocation & Management in ATM Networks”, May 1997.
  • R. Venkataramana, ”A VLSI Hardware Router for MIMD Systems”, Aug 1997.
  • R. Margapur, ”A VLSI System for Neural Network Implementation”.
  • A. Rasquinha, ”A Connected Component Labeling Chip & FPGA Implementation”, Sept 1996.
  • N. Bhavanishankar, ”A VLSI Chip for Image Processing”, April 1996.
  • R. Chandra, ”A VLSI Chip for Maximal matching in Bipartite Graphs”, February 1996.
  • R. Sathyamurthy, ”Intelligent Decision Making for Underwater Navigation”, Apr 1996.
  • A. Konduru, ”A Compression Algorithm for Relational Databases”, Dec 1997.
  • V. Sundaram, ”3-D Volumetric Medical Data Compression”, September 1996.
  • Weyron Henriques, ”VLSI System for Enhancement of Digital Mammograms”, Oct 1996.
  • S. Shivaraman,”Joint Source and Channel Coding”, August 1996.
  • H. Rashedi,”Lossless Compression of Digital Mammogram Images”, December 1995.
  • P. Solarzano,”FPGA Implementation of LZWCompression for Modems”.
  • S. Aruru, ”VLSI Chip for Image Compression with Variable Block Segmentation”, Dec 1995.
  • V. Krishna,”VLSI Chip for Tree Pattern Matching”, April 1996.
  • N. Saxena,”Implementation of Bayesian Networks on Hypercube”, Dec 1995.
  • R. Motamarri, ”VLSI Architecture for CBS Matching”, December 1995.
  • A. Ejnioui, ”Parallel Algorithms for Tree Pattern Matching”, March 1995.
  • B. D. Kiran, ”VLSI Architectures for Image Thinning”, April 1995.
  • V. Natarajan, ”VLSI Architectures for Data Compression,”April 1995
  • A. Karimpuzha, ”VLSI Architectures for Curve Generation,” July 1995.
  • S. Venugopal, ”A VLSI Architecture for Template Matching,” April 1994.
  • B. Parthasarathy, ”A VLSI Architecture for Robot Path Planning,” October 1993.
  • K. Remedios, ”A VLSI Chip for Approximate String Matching”, July 1993.
  • Shamira Kurji, ”A VLSI Chip for Motion Detection”.
  • Michael Sullivan, ”Systolic VLSI Designs for Data Compression”, May 1992.
  • Raghuveer Venkatesan, ”VLSI Architectures for Hierarchical Scene Matching,” Aug 1992.
  • Jeffrey Fleider, ”A VLSI Chip for JPEG Baseline Compression/Decompression”, May 1992.
  • Minesh Patel, ”Design of a 2-D VLSI Systolic Array Chip for Image Processing”, May 1992.
  • Pat McCabe, ”A 2-D Systolic Array Architecture for Image and Signal Processing”, May 1992.
  • R. Nyapathi, ”Hypotheses-based Object Recognition”, Dec 1991.
  • V.K. Sundaresan, ”Software and Hardware Solutions for Dynamic Time Warping”, Dec 1991.
  • Balaji, K. R., ”A Systolic Chip for Computation of Join in Relational Databases”, Dec 1991.
  • Elizabeth Meyer, ”A CMOS VLSI Chip for Huffman-based Decompression”, April 1991.
  • Selwyn Henriques, ”SALCOM: Systolic Architecture for LZ Data Compression”, Dec 1990.
  • Suresh Subramanian, ”VLSI Algorithms for Connected Components Labeling”, April 1990.
  • Sanjay J. Nichani, ”SAP: Systolic Array Processor for Computations in Vision”, April 1990.
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