People

Members of HPLP

Mircea R. Stan

Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) Professor
Currently Recruiting

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 Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST) IUCRC Center Center for Automata Processing (CAP) High Performance Low Power (HPLP)
Email [email protected]
Phone (434) 924-3503

Graduates

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 [email protected]
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.
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Email [email protected]
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.
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Email [email protected]
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 Google Scholar
Email [email protected]
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 [email protected]
Liangtao Dai

Liangtao Dai

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall '25
Liangtao graduated with a B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from the ShanghaiTech University. Their research interests include: VLSI Design, Computer Architecture, Hardware Security. Their interests outside the lab include traveling and hiking.
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Email [email protected]

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.
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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.
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Alumni

PhD


JUN (JERRY) YIN (EE, PhD Nov 2025, First Employment: Samsung Semiconductor)
M. CEYLAN MORGUL (EE, PhD April 2025, First Employment: James Madison University)
MOHAMMAD NAZMUS SAKIB (CpE, PhD April 2025, First Employment: USC Information Sciences Institute)
RAHUL SREEKUMAR (EE, PhD Nov 2024, First Employment: Texas Instruments)
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


Cindy Dong (CS & DS, B.S May 2025)
Naomi Solomon (CpE & EE, B.S May 2025)
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)