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

Graduates

Sergiu Mosanu

Sergiu Mosanu

Ph.D student, HPLP member since Spring’15
Previous Education: Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs University Bremen; Master of Science in Information and Media Technologies, Hamburg University of Technology Research Interests: FPGAs for reconfigurable spatial acceleration, hardware emulation Interests Outside of the Lab: Cloud computing, machine learning, medical applications
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email sm7ed@virginia.edu
Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’18
Previous Education: Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology Research Interests: Emerging memory device and architecture, Reliability Interests Outside the Lab: Traveling, watching movies, TV series
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email ms3xy@virginia.edu
Robert West

Robert E. West III

Ph.D student, HPLP member since Fall’18
Previous Education: B.S. in Computer Engineering, VCU; B.S. in Mathematical Sciences, VCU; Research Interests: Microfluidic networks, microfluidic circuits, microchannel cooling, thermal simulation, 3D ICs Interests Outside the Lab: Board and tabletop games, reading, cooking
LinkedIn
Email rew7y@virginia.edu
M. Ceylan Morgul

M. Ceylan, Morgul

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Spring’19
Previous Education: B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University; M.S. in Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University Research Interests: Emerging Memory Technologies, Reliability, VLSI Design, Device Modeling Interests Outside the Lab: Photography, Kamancha (Musical Instrument), Cooking
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email mm4uz@virginia.edu
Rahul Sreekumar

Rahul Sreekumar

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Spring’19
Previous Education: B. Tech, TKM College of Engineering (India); MSEE, San Jose State University Research Interests: Mixed Signal Design, Ultra-Wideband Communication, Digitally Assisted Analog Circuitry Interests Outside the Lab: Cooking, music, nature walks
LinkedIn Google Scholar
Email rs2xd@virginia.edu
Elisa Pantoja

Elisa Pantoja

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’19
Previous Education: B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Autonomous University of Nuevo León; M.S. in Microelectronics and Microsystems, Hamburg University of Technology Research Interests: Design and fabrication of printable electronics Interests Outside the Lab: New technologies, languages, gardening
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Email rep9cy@virginia.edu
Joshua Fixelle

Joshua Fixelle

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’19
Previous Education: B.S. Engineering Science & Mechanics, B.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University; M.S. Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University Research Interests: Computer Architecture, FPGA Reconfigurable Computing, Processing in Memory, Hardware Emulation, Scientific Computing, Embedded Systems, Edge Computing, Computer Graphics, Archival Hardware Preservation Interests Outside the Lab: 3D Animation & Modeling, Philosophy, Video Games, Reading, Rock Climbing
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Email jf9fk@virginia.edu
Ersin Cukurtas

Ersin Cukurtas

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’19
Previous Education: B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sabanci University Research Interests: FPGAs, Hardware Security, Processing in Memory, Real-Time Embedded Systems Interests Outside the Lab: Fitness, Outdoors
Email ec9hc@virginia.edu
Akhil Shekar

Akhil Shekar

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Fall’20
Previous Education: BoE in Electronics & Communications, Visvesvaraya Technological University (PES Institute of Technology), Bangalore, 2016 Research Interests: Computer Architecture, In-Memory Processing, Near Data Processing Interests Outside the Lab: Running, Quiz, Reading, Badminton, Squash, Trekking
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Email as8hu@virginia.edu
Jerry Yin

Jerry, J, Yin

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Summer’21
Previous Education: B.S. Material Forming and Control Engineering, Qinghai University; M.E. Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University Research Interests: Low Power Circuits Design, VLSI Design, AI Hardware Interests Outside the Lab: Watching Animations, Computer and Smartphone Games, Driving, Shopping
Google Scholar
Email htf6ry@virginia.edu

Yimin Gao

Ph. D student, HPLP member since Spring'23
Previous Education: B.E. University of Cincinnati & B.E. Chongqing University Dual-degree program, 2020 M.S. University of Virginia, 2022 Research Interests: Reconfigurable Computer Architecture, AI hardware, RISC-V ISA Extension, Processing in Memory, Hardware Emulation Interests Outside the Lab: Basketball, soccer, dogs, traveling, video games
LinkedIn
Email yg9bq@virginia.edu

Undergraduates

Cindy Dong

Cindy Dong

Undergraduate student/ Social media and web developer, HPLP
Major: Computer Science | Minor: Data Science Interests Outside the Lab: Crochet, guitar, cooking, traveling
LinkedIn
Email ggm7qk@virginia.edu

Alumni

PhD

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 (M.S in EE May 2019)
Mandi Das (M.S in EE May 2019)
Minyan Gao (M.S in EE May 2018)
Yung-Chih Chen (M.S in CpE May 2018)
THEODORIC XIE (M.S in CpE December 2017, First Employment: Falcon Computing)
BEN MELTON (First Employment: Eta Compute)
Oshin Jakhete (M.E in EE December 2016, First Employment: GlobalFoundries) 
ANDY WHETZEL (M.S in EE May 2015)
ELENA WEINBERG (M.S in CpE May 2015, First Employment: Intel)
Hui Jin Anderson (M.S in EE May 2012, First Employment: Unanet Technologies)

Undergraduate Students

Cole Blackman
Benjamin Ghaemmaghami
Nick Moon
Xueyuan She
Leila Troxell
Bill Zhang
Nova Zhang