People

Members of HPLP

Mircea R. Stan

Director of Computer Engineering Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) Professor

Mircea R. Stan is teaching and doing research in the areas of AI hardware, Processing in Memory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational RFID, Low Power, Spintronics, and Nanoelectronics.
Link Lab Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) IUCRC Center Center for Automata Processing (CAP) High Performance Low Power (HPLP)
Email mircea@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 924-3503

Graduates

Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

Ph. D candidate, HPLP member since Fall’18
Mohammad graduated with a B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology. Their research interests include: Emerging Memory Device and Architecture, and Reliability. Their interests outside the lab are traveling and watching movies/TV series.
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email ms3xy@virginia.edu
M. Ceylan Morgul

M. Ceylan, Morgul

Ph. D candidate, HPLP member since Spring’19
M. Ceylan graduated with a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and a M.S. in Electronics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. Their research interests include: Emerging Memory Technologies, Reliability, VLSI Design, and Device Modeling. Their interests outside the lab are photography, kamancha (musical Instrument), and cooking.
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Email mm4uz@virginia.edu
Rahul Sreekumar

Rahul Sreekumar

Ph. D candidate, HPLP member since Spring’19
Rahul graduated with a B. Tech at TKM College of Engineering (India) and with a M.S. EE at San Jose State University. Their research interests include: Mixed Signal Design, Ultra-Wideband Communication, and Digitally Assisted Analog Circuitry. Their interests outside the lab are cooking, music, and nature walks.
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Email rs2xd@virginia.edu
Ersin Cukurtas

Ersin Cukurtas

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’19
Ersin graduated with a B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sabanci University. Their research interests include: FPGAs, Hardware Security, Processing in Memory, and Real-Time Embedded Systems. Their interests outside the lab are Fitness, and Outdoors.
Email ec9hc@virginia.edu
Akhil Shekar

Akhil Shekar

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’20
Akhil graduated with a BoE in Electronics & Communications at Visvesvaraya Technological University (PES Institute of Technology), Bangalore, 2016. Their research interests include: Computer Architecture, In-Memory Processing, and Near Data Processing. Their interests outside the lab are Running, Quiz, Reading, Badminton, Squash, and Trekking.
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email as8hu@virginia.edu
Jun (Jerry) Yin

Jun (Jerry) Yin

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Summer’21
Jun graduated with a B.S. Material Forming and Control Engineering at Qinghai University and a M.E. Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. Their research interests include: Low Power Circuit Design, RF Energy Harvesting, Analog Circuit Design, and VLSI Design. Their interests outside the lab are Watching Animations, Computer and Smartphone Games, Driving, and Shopping.
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Email htf6ry@virginia.edu
Yimin Gao

Yimin Gao

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Spring'23
Yimin graduated with a B.E. from the University of Cincinnati & B.E. from Chongqing University Dual-degree program, 2020 and a M.S. from University of Virginia, 2022. Their research interests include: Edge AI Computing, Processing in Memory, FPGAs, and Hardware Security. Their interests outside the lab include basketball, soccer, dogs, traveling, and video games.
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email yg9bq@virginia.edu
Melika Morsali

Melika Morsali

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall '24
Melika graduated with a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Alzahra University in 2023. Their research interests include: Edge AI Computing, In-Memory Processing, Reconfigurable Computing and VLSI Design. Their interests outside the lab include yoga, traveling, hiking, and shopping.
Linkedin
Email qfc2zn@virginia.edu
Kavish Nimnake Ranawella

Kavish Nimnake Ranawella

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall '24
Kavish graduated with a BSc in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka) in 2022. Their research interests include: Chip Design, Hardware Acceleration, Memory Hierarchy, Superconductor Circuits. Their interests outside the lab include traveling and cycling.
Linkedin
Email kavishranwella@gmail.com

Undergraduates

Cindy Dong

Cindy Dong

Web developer, HPLP member since Spring '24
Cindy is a current student at UVA studying Computer Science and Data Science. Their interests outside the lab are crocheting, playing the guitar, cooking, and traveling.
LinkedIn
Email ggm7qk@virginia.edu
Naomi Solomon

Naomi Solomon

Researcher, HPLP member since Summer '24
Naomi's research interests include: Machine Learning, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence. Their interest outside the lab are: Reading, Music, Traveling.
LinkedIn
Email ewd9vj@virginia.edu

Alumni

PhD

ELISA PANTOJA (EE, PhD May 2024)
ROBERT E. WEST (First Employment: Honeywell International Inc.)
SERGIU MOSANU (PhD May 2023, First Employment: Micron Technology)
VAIBHAV VERMA (EE, PhD May 2022, First Employment: Qualcomm)
JUNHAN HAN (EE, PhD August 2022, First Employment: Meta)
TOMMY, J, TRACY (CpE, PhD August 2019, First Employment: Research Scientist at UVA)
PATRICIA GONZALEZ-GUERRERO (EE, PhD July 2019)
ALEC ROELKE (CpE, PhD April 2018, First Employment: BAE)
XINFEI GUO (CpE, PhD March 2018, First Employment: Mellanox Technologies)
MEHDI KABIR (PhD Dec 2016, First Employment: Northrop Grumman Research)
VIDYABHUSHAN MOHAN (PhD Oct 2015, First Employment: SanDisk)
KAUSHIK MAZUMDAR (PhD June 2015, First Employment: AMD Research)
RUNJIE ZHANG (PhD May 2015, First Employment: Oracle)
MARCO BARCELLA (Watson Health Program Director, Product Management at IBM)
ANSHUL BHARGAVA (Verification Manager at Apple Inc.)
ADAM CABE (Electrical Engineer at Sparta)
ARNAUD FORESTIER (DDR I/O circuit architect at Intel)
DAVID GARRETT (Associate Technical Director at Broadcom)
JOSHUA GARRETT (Principal Engineer at Broadcom)
FATIH HAMZAOGLU (Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation)
WEI HUANG (Senior Researcher at AMD Research)
ABHIMANYU KOLLA (Senior Director, Memory Technology Group at Xilinx)
AVISHEK PANIGRAHI (CAD Engineer at Google)
ZHENYU (JERRY) QI (Staff Scientist II at Broadcom)
GARRETT ROSE (Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee)
YAN ZHANG (Senior VLSI Design Engineer at Qualcomm)
MATTHEW ZIEGLER (Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson)

Masters

PAI WANG (EE, M.S May 2019)
MANDI DAS (EE, M.S May 2019)
MINYAN GAO (EE, M.S May 2018)
YUNG-CHIH CHEN (CpE, M.S May 2018)
THEODORIC XIE (CpE, M.S May 2017, First Employment: Falcon Computing)
BEN MELTON (First Employment: Eta Compute)
OSHIN JAKHETE (EE, M.E December 2016, First Employment: GlobalFoundries) 
ANDY WHETZEL (EE, M.S May 2015)
ELENA WEINBERG (CpE, M.S May 2015, First Employment: Intel)
HUI JIN ANDSERSON (EE, M.S May 2012, First Employment: Unanet Technologies)

Undergraduate Students

COLE BLACKMAN (CpE, B.S May 2024)
BILL ZHANG (CS & EE, B.S May 2022)
NICK MOON (EE, B.S May 2021)
NOVA ZHANG (CS, B.S May 2019)
BENJAMIN GHAEMMAGHAMI (CpE, B.S May 2018)
XUEYUAN SHE (EE, B.S May 2017)
LEILA TROXELL

Visiting Researchers

CONNOR E. MARTIN (Intern, Summer '24)
KUSHAN K. DIXIT (Researcher, Summer '24)
ROBERT A. MERRIMAN (Intern, Summer '24)