Lab News

M. Ceylan Morgul, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib and Mircea Stan's paper titled, "Reliable Processing in Flash with High Temperature" is going to be presented at IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) 2021​.

Jun-Han Han, Robert E. West, Karina Torres-Castro, Nathan Swami, Samira Khan and Mircea Stan's paper titled, "Power and Thermal Modeling of In-3D-Memory Computing" has been presented at the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Device, Circuit and System (IEEE ISDCS), March 3-5 2021.

Hamed Vakili, Jun-Wen Xu, Wei Zhou, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib, Md Golam Morshed, Timothy Hartnett, Yassine Quessab, Kai Litzius, Chung T. Ma, Samiran Ganguly, Mircea R. Stan, Prasanna V. Balachandran, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, S. Joseph Poon, Andrew D. Kent, and Avik W. Ghosh's paper titled, "Skyrmionics—Computing and memory technologies based on topological excitations in magnets" has been published in the Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 130, no. 7, 2021.

Mohammad Nazmus Sakib, Rahul Sreekumar, Vaibhav Verma, Tommy Tracy II and Mircea R. Stan's paper titled "ATCPiM: Analog to Time Coded Processing in Memory for IoT at the Edge" is presented in in IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WFIoT) 2021. The paper was nominated as one of the top 5 student papers in WFIoT 2021.

Vaibhav Verma and Mohammed Nazmus Sakib were recently awarded the UVA Engineering Endowed Graduate Fellowship award. As a part of the fellowship, they will each receive a $5,000 addition to the graduate recipients academic-year stipend and a $5,000 research account. Congrats to them both!

Elisa Pantoja and Mohammad Nazmus Sakib had their work presented at this year's SRC TECHCON'21. Their research focuses on developing "Batteryless, chip-less RFID printable sensor technlogy" and "Skyrmionic based temporal memory logic", respectively. Congrats to them both!!

HPLP alumus, Dave Garrett an alumnus of HPLP and is the VP of HW Engineering at Syntiant Corp is publishing blog posts on CMOS power dynamics and ML system design from a hardware perspective. Follow his blog posts, linked below:
Link to Blog Post

Project Title: ASCENT: Ferroelectric-based Compute-in-Memory Dynamical Engine (Ferro-CoDE) to Solve Hard Combinatorial Optimization
Profs. Nikhil Shukla (ECE & MSE), Jon Ihlefeld (MSE & ECE) and Mircea Stan (ECE), who along with Prof. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (Penn State) have just been awarded a 4 year NSF grant.

Our undergraduate ASIC design team has passed the first round in the 2021 IEEE SSCS PICO Design Contest with the project of TIDENet: TinyML Image Detection on the Edge with Neural Networks. We are selected as one of the 18 out of 61 submissions.

Xinfei Guo, an alumnus of HPLP, has started his new position at the University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats!