People

Principal Investigator

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Benton Calhoun 

Ben received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where he is now a Professor. His research interests include body sensor node (BSN) design, low power digital circuit design, sub-threshold digital circuits, SRAM design for end-of-the-roadmap silicon, variation tolerant circuit design methodologies, and low energy electronics for medical applications.

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Staff

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Daniel Truesdell

Principal Scientist
Daniel received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, in 2021. He worked in the industry at an IoT startup as a Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Engineer developing ultra-low power system-on-chips until 2023, when he re-joined the University of Virginia where he is now a Principal Scientist. His research interests include energy efficient mixed-signal circuit design, on-chip oscillators and sensors, energy harvesting and performance-scalable systems, and low-power digital circuit techniques.
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Lab Members

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Akiyoshi Tanaka

PhD Student
Akiyoshi received his Bachelors in Electrical engineering, Electronics, and Information Engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in 2022. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in June 2022 and is working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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Anjali Agrawal

PhD Student
Anjali received her Bachelors in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India in 2020. She joined the RLP-VLSI group in July 2022 and is currently working towards her PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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Zhenghong Chen

PhD Student
Zhenghong received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Chongqing University, China in 2020. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in September 2022 and is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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Charlie Hess

PhD Student
Charlie received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UVA in the fall of 2022. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in the spring of 2023 and is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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Samit Hasan

PhD Student
Samit received his B.Sc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in May 2022. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in August 2023 and is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering. His research interest includes body sensor nodes (BSN), Internet of Things (IoT) and low power electronics for medical applications.
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Aniket Roy

PhD Student
Aniket received his masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, MI, USA, in 2017. From 2017 to 2024, he worked in the industry as a Mixed-Signal Circuit Engineer designing various high performance digital and analog IPs for server applications in leading companies like Apple, Intel, Qualcomm and Ampere Computing. He joined the RLP-VLSI group at University of Virginia in August 2024 where he is currently pursuing his PhD in electrical engineering. His research interests include energy efficient mixed-signal circuit design, on-chip oscillators and sensors, energy harvesting and performance-scalable systems, clocking and low-power digital circuit techniques.
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Trenton Elliott

PhD Student
Trenton received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2024. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in August 2024, and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. His interests include Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition, and Mixed Signal IC Design.
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Zane Gunn

PhD Student
Zane received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UVA in the Spring of 2025. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in the Summer of 2025 and is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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Minh Bui

PhD Student
Minh received his B.S. Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in Spring 2024 and M.S. ECE in Spring 2026. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in the Fall of 2026 and is currently working towards his PhD in Computer Engineering.
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Duvan Boshoff

PhD Student
Duvan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tulsa in the Spring of 2026. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in the Fall of 2026 and is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include IoT nodes, distributed edge processing, and edge ML.
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Alumni

Staff

StaffPositionNext Job
Nick NapoliResearch Scientist, 2018-2019Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Dilip VasudevanResearch Scientist, 2015-2016Berkeley Labs
Kevin LeachResearch Scientist, 2017-2018Senior Research Fellow, University of Michigan

Students

StudentDegreeFirst Job
Omar FarquePhD, 2026 
Suprio BhattacharyaPhD, 2026ARM
Shan HeMS, 2025 
Rumali SiddiquaMS, 2025 
Alexander Kwasi Tweneboah Osei-BonsuMS, 2025 
Md. Fahim FoysalMS, 2025 
Nugaira MimMS, 2024 
Natalie OwnbyPhD, 2024Southwest Research Institute
Xinjian LiuPhD, 2024Monolithic Power Systems Inc.
Peter LeMS, 2023U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Daehyun LeeMS, 2023Continued for PhD at George Mason University
Shourya GuptaPhD, 2023Apple
Sumanth KamineniPhD, 2023Nvidia
Rishika AgarwalaPhD, 2022Apple
Katy FlynnMS, 2023 
Peng WangPhD, 2021Apple
Shuo LiPhD, 2021Postdoc at UIUC
Henry BishopPhD, 2021Amazon
Anjana DissanayakePhD, 2021CSEM
Daniel TruesdellPhD, 2021Everactive
Jacob BreiholzPhD, 2021Everactive
NingXi LiuPhD, 2019Apple
Arijit BanerjeePhD, 2018Global Foundries Inc
Abhishek RoyPhD, 2017Silicon Labs
Harsh PatelPhD, 2018Global Foundries Inc
Divya AkellaPhD, 2017Mythic Inc
He QiPhD, 2017Apple
Christopher J. LukasPhD, 2017PsiKick
Farah B. YahyaPhD, 2017PsiKick
Seyi AyorindePhD, 2016Army Research Lab
Manula PathiranaMS, 2016Continued for PhD
Patricia GonzalezMS, 2015Continued for PhD in EE department at UVA
Yu HuangMS, 2015Continued for PhD in CS department at UVA
Alicia KlinefelterPhD, 2015Intel
Jim BoleyPhD, 2015PsiKick
Peter BeshayMS, 2014Synopsys
Kyle CraigPhD, 2014PsiKick
Aatmesh ShrivastivaPhD, 2014PsiKick
Craig EberhardtPhD, 2013Envista Forensics
Yanqing ZhangPhD, 2013Nvidia
Yousef ShakhsheerPhD, 2013PsiKick
Joe RyanPhD, 2011Intel
Satyanand NalamPhD, 2011Intel
Sudhanshu Khanna        MS, 2011Texas Instruments
Randy MannPhD, 2010GlobalFoundries
Jiajing WangPhD, 2010Intel
Jonathan StockingMS (MAE), 2010     PhD program in Environmental Science, UVA
Steven JockeMS, 2009Lockheed Martin
Kyle RinggenbergMS, 2009Lockheed Martin
Liang DiMS, 2008Intel
Satyanand Nalam     MS, 2008continued for PhD

Undergraduates

StudentYear in GroupResearch Topic
Chuhong Duan2011-2012MIT chip testing, Modeling for body sensor nodes; ADESTO chip testing
Kevin Linger2011-2012Register File Design
Vincent Luu2012Modeling for Body Sensor, adapting model to COTS
Roman Boyarov2012Modeling energy efficient COTS embedded systems
Ian Dansey2012Modeling physiological data
David Moore2010-2012Interconnect design, multicore processors
Andrew Taylor2012Standard cell library generation
Domenic Carr2010-2011CAD for memory design
Daniel Reyno2010-2011     CAD for memory design
Tyler Healy2009SRAM layout generation
Eyad Lababidi2009Low voltage FPGA
Bijan Mapar2009SRAM layout generation
Iberedem Ekure2008Low voltage FPGA
Jisoon Kim2008Low voltage FPGA
Jay Hoffman2008Low power processor
Robert McNish2008Heart rate processing
Daniel Sosa2008Traffic control
Alex Dreelin2008Traffic control
Yonathan Habtemichael     2007Wearable ECG