Computer Engineering Program Ph.D. Graduates
Computer Engineering alumni who have Completed a Ph.D. since the graduate program was approved in 2004.
2020
Gholamreza Rahimi, PhD - Skadron (Advisor), Enabling Low-Overhead and Scalable NearData Pattern Matching Acceleration with Memory-Centric Architectures. First Job after Graduating: AMD Semiconductors.
2019
Fatemah Alali, PhD - Veeraraghavan (Advisor), Toward improving the performance of network-based applications. First Job after Graduating: Kuwait University.
Ahmed Aly, PhD - Dugan (Advisor), Experimental Studies in Pursuit of Experiential Robot Learning. First Job after Graduating: NanoSemi Inc.
Tommy Tracy, PhD - Stan (Advisor), Accelerating Decision Tree Ensemble Inference with an Automata Representation. First Job after Graduating: Dept. of CS, UVA Post-Doc.
Xiaoyu Wang, PhD - Veeraraghanvan (Advisor), Novel Hybrid Optical-/Electrical-Switched Networks for Energy-Efficient Operation. First Job after Graduating: Google.
2018
Xinfei Guo, PhD - Stan (Advisor), Towards Wearout-Aware and Accelerated Self-Healing Digital Systems. First Job after Graduating: Intel
Sourav Maji, PhD - Veeraraghavan (Advisor), Characterization, Management, and Online Traffic Engineering of Heavy-Hitter Flows in Software Defined Networks. First job after Graduating: Palo Alto Networks
Alec Roelke, PhD - Stan (Advisor), Improving Reliability and Security with Aging and Pre-RLT Madeling. First Job after Graduating: BAE Systems
2017
He Qi, PhD -- Calhoun (Advisor), Circuit Solutions and Tool Flow of Ultra-Low_power FPGAs. First Job after Graduating: Apple
2016
Kevin Leach, PhD -- Weimer (Advisor), Transparent System Introspection in Support of Analyzing Stealthy Malware. First Job after Graduating: Dept. of CS, UVA Post-Doc
Wei Zhang, PhD -- Lach (Advisor), Scrutinizing Resource Utilization for High Performance and Low Energy Computation. First Job after Graduating: Samsung Research America
2015
Philip Asare, PhD -- Lach/Stankovic (co-Advisors), A Framework for Reasoning about Patient Safety of Emerging Computer-Based Medical Technologies. First Job after Graduating: Bucknell University
Lukasz Szafaryn, PhD -- Skadron (Advisor), Understanding and Optimizing Heterogeneous Soft-Error Protection. First Job after Graduating: First Job after Graduating: AMD Research and Development
Runjie Zhang, PhD -- Skadron (Advisor), Pre-RTL On-chip Power Delivery Modeling and Analysis. First Job after Graduating: Oracle
Yuchen Zhou -- Evans (Advisor), Improving Security and Privacy of Integrated Web Applications. First Job after Graduating: Palo Alto Networks
2013
Saad Arrabi -- Lach (Advisor), Maximizing Energy Efficiency through Vertically integrated Dynamic Reconfigurability. First Job after Graduating: AMD Research
Jie Li – Veeraraghavan (Advisor), Advances in Inter-domain. First Job after Graduating: Networking Microsoft
Zhenzhen Yan – Veeraraghavan (Advisor), Traffic Engineering in Packet/Circuit Hybrid. First Job after Graduating: Networks Seagate
Sudeep Ghosh -- Davidson (Advisor), Software Protection via Composable Process-level Virtual Machines. First Job after Graduating: Microsoft
Chenguang Xu – Wilson (Advisor), Two-way Data Exchange in Satellite Communication. First Job after Graduating: MicroStrategy
Michael Boyer -- Skadron (Advisor), Rate Matching to Improve the Performance and Energy Efficiency of GPU Systems. First Job after Graduating: First Job after Graduating: AMD Research
2012
Chris Gregg -- Hazelwood (Advisor), A Data and Contention Aware Approach to Dynamic Scheduling for Heterogeneous Processors. First Job after Graduating: Active Duty, Navy
Shuai Che – Skadron (Advisor), Understanding and Optimizing the Performance of Heterogeneous Systems. First Job after Graduating: AMD Research
Jiawei Huang -- Lach (Advisor), A Digital System Design Methodology for Efficiency-Quality Tradeoffs Using Imprecise Hardware. First Job after Graduating: NVIDIA Research
Mark McGinley -- Veeraraghavan (Advisor), On Providing Fair Circuit/Virtual-Circuit Networking Services. First Job after Graduating: Government
2011
Nishant George – Lach (Advisor), Modeling and Mitigating Transient Faults in Nanoscale Digital Systems. First Job after Graduating: Intel Research
Satyanand Nalam -- Calhoun (Advisor), Circuit and CAD Solutions for optimal SRAM design in nanoscale CMOS. First Job after Graduating: SRAM Group at Intel
2010
Apala Guha -- Soffa (Advisor), Memory Optimization of Dynamic Binary Translators for Embedded Platforms. First Job after Graduating: Intel Research
2009
Scott Bingham -- Lach (Advisor), Fault Coverage Analysis of Integrated Circuit Designs Through Assertion-Based Verification and Fault Injection (ABVFI). First Job after Graduating: Northrop-Grumman
David Tarjan -- Skadron (Advisor), Efficient Throughput Cores for Asymmetric Many Core Processors. First Job after Graduating: NVIDIA Research
2008
Karsten Nohl -- Evans (Advisor), Implementable Privacy for RFID Systems. First Job after Graduating: Security Research Labs, Berlin
Ganesh Pai -- Dugan (Advisor), Probablistic Software Quality Assessment. First Job after Graduating: NASA Ames Research Center
2006
Yangyang Yu -- Johnson (Advisor), The Quantitative Safety Assessment for safety-critical Computer Systems. First Job after Graduating: Powerwave Technologies
2005
Hichem Boudali – Dugan (Advisor), A Temporal Bayesian Network Reliability Modeling and Analysis Framework. First Job after Graduating: University of Twente
Vijay Kumar Vinu -- Lach (Advisor), Application Specific Small-Scale Reconfigurability. First Job after Graduating: Texas Instruments Research Lab