People
People
We currently have positions available for two Ph.D. students. Please contact the lab at ns6pf@virginia.edu
(Updated 11/15/2024)
Faculty
Nikhil Shukla
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Nikhil Shukla is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the ECE and the Materials Science and Engineering department.
Graduate Students
Abir Hasan
Abir Hasan received his B.Sc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, in 2021. He joined the University of Virginia as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall, 2022. Currently, his research is focused on designing integrated circuits to implement oscillator-based non-linear dynamical systems for solving combinatorial optimization problems.
Nikhat Jabbar Khan
Nikhat Khan received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2019 and her Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2021, from Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT) affiliated with the Pune University. In 2021, she interned at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, for a year, in the Instrumentation Department on the characterization of cold electronics required in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). She joined CHRL in the fall of 2022 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVA), USA. She performed research on the design & characterization of emerging non-volatile memory technology. Her current research work focuses on hardware system design and development to accelerate the solvers for addressing hard computational problems effectively.
Yi Cheng
Yi Cheng received his B.E. degree in Automation and Electronic Information from Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, in 2020 and his M.E. degree in Automation from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2023. He joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the fall of 2023, co-advised by Prof. Lin and Prof. Shukla. His research interests lie in the interdisciplinarity of formal control theory and hardware design for dynamical system-based computation.
Jiaao Wang
Jiaao Wang is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Virginia. He completed his master's studies at UVA in May 2024. He earned his B.S. in Materials Physics from Sun Yat-sen University.
Currently, his research is focused on the electrical characteristics of semi-metallic niobium disulfide (NbS₂) as a promising material for next-generation interconnect technologies. His work aims to demonstrate the potential of highly scaled two-dimensional (2D) metallic materials, such as NbS₂, to overcome the limitations of traditional copper interconnects, which suffer from increased resistivity at nanoscale dimensions.
Uttam Kumar Saha
Uttam Kumar Saha received his bachelor's degree in Fall 2019 from North South University, Bangladesh, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia in Fall 2024 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in integrated circuit and system design .
Ekanayake, Hasantha Eranga
Hasantha Ekanayake earned his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2019. He then spent five years working in the telecommunications industry in Sri Lanka, during which he pursued and completed his MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, in 2024. In the fall of 2024, Hasantha began his Ph.D. studies at the University of Virginia in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include Optimization and Mathematics.
Redding, Ridge Howland
Ridge Redding is a third-year undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering. His interests include probabilistic modeling, algorithms, and hardware acceleration. Currently, he is focused on developing simulated annealing algorithms using the Potts model, and applying them to solve combinatorial optimization problems, such as MIMO decoding.
Alumni
Antik Mallick
Antik Mallick received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2023. Currently, he is working as a device engineer at Micron Technology Inc.
Antik Mallick worked in CHRL, focusing his research on emerging devices and device-circuit co-design for oscillator-based non-Boolean computing. His research has been published in several journals and conferences, including IEEE, IEDM, and Nature. He also received the Graduate Academic Excellence Award from UVA ISO.
Mohammad Khairul Bashar
Mohammad Khairul Bashar received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2024. Currently, he is working as a process integration engineer at Micron Technology Inc.
Mohammad Khairul Bashar joined CHRL in fall 2018. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2015. He has performed extraordinary research work in co-designing hardware and computational models for dynamical system-based computation. He has several publications in prestigious journals and conferences.
Sam Stevenson
Sam Stevenson received his B.A. degree in Physics in 2019 from Carleton College, MN. He received his ME in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2024. Currently, He is working as a web developer at IntegrityPro.