Student Highlights

Dr Iraklis Anagnostopoulos

Ph.D. Students
Ourania Spantidi

• "Resource-Aware Optimization Techniques for Machine Learning Inference on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems"
• Best paper award, Automated Energy-Efficient DNN Compression under Fine-Grain Accuracy Constraints, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE),2023.
• First placement: Tenured-track Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University, USA

• "Resource Management and Application Customization for Hardware Accelerated Systems"
• First placement: NVIDIA, USA 

• "Resource Management in Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications"
• Doctoral Research Fellowship, SIUC
• First placement: Intel, USA

• "Enhancing Fariness and Performance on Chip Multi-Processor Platforms with Contention-Aware Scheduling Policies"
• First placement: NVIDIA, USA

M.Sc. Students

Benjamin Trewin

• "Architecture and Mapping Co-Exploration and Optimazation for DNN Accelerators"
• First placement: Texas Instrument, USA

Anish Ghimire

• "Optimization fo Asymmetric Many-Core Systems"
• First placement: Qualcomm, USA

• "Collaborative Execution of Neural Networks on Modern Embedded Systems"
• First placement: Qualcomm, USA

• "Efficient Resource Management on Embedded Devices via Isolationa nd Adaptive Resources Allocation"
• First placement: Intel, USA

• "Efficient Resource Management for Video Applications in the Era of Internet-of-Things (IoT)"
• First placement: Fiat Chrysler Automobile, USA

• "Simple Pool Architecture for Application Resource Allocation in Many-Core Systems"
• First placement: Qualcomm, USA

• "Performance-Aware Resource Managemnt of Multi-Threaded Applications for Many-Core Systems"
• First placement: Boeing, USA

DR GAYAN ARUMA BADUGE

Ph.D. Students

Dulaj Gunasinghe

• "Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications"
• Awards: Two-time Doctoral Research Fellowship winner at SIU and NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: Assistant Professor in Communications and Networking at Bowling Green State University, USA

Diluka Loku Galappaththige

• "Cell-Free and Intelligent Reflective Surfaces Aided Architectures for Wireless Communications"
• Awards: Prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Canada and NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Alberta,Canada

Yikai Li

• "Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Relay-Aided/Cell-Free Networks"
• Awards: Dissertation Research Award at SIU and NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: Assistant Professor in Wireless Communications and Signal Processing for Communications, Minnesota State University, USA

Dhanushka Kudathanthirige

• "Design and Analysis of Transmission Strategies for Training-Based Massive MIMO Systems"
• Awards: Dissertation Research Award at SIU and NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia

Hayder Abed Hussein Al-Hraishawi

• "Design and Analysis of Cognitive Massive MIMO Networks with Underlay Spectrum Sharing"
• First Placement: Research Scientist at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

M.Sc. Students

Alan Devkota

• "Performance Analysis of RIS-Assisted Relay Systems"
• First Placement: PhD student at University of Houston, TX

Sharath Chandra Reddy Gaddam

• "Achievable Rate Analysis of NOMA-Aided Massive MIMO Systems"
• First Placement: Cellular system engineer at Qualcomm, USA

Rajan Shrestha

• "Energy-Rate Trade-Off Analysis for SWIPT in Massive MIMO Systems"
• Awards: NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: RF Analyst at Global Wireless Solutions, VA, USA

Santosh Timilsina

• "Physical Layer Security in Training-Based Single-Hop/Dual-Hop Massive MIMO Systems"
• Awards: NSF graduate student travel grants for attending conferences
• First Placement: RF Analyst at Global Wireless Solutions, VA, USA

Dr Chao Lu

• "Developing a User-Independent Deep Learning-Based Biomechanical Gait Analysis System Using Full Body Kinematics and Electromyography"
• First Placement: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Missouri Western State University

• "Algorithms and Hardware Co-Design of HEVC Intra Encoders"
• First Placement: Video Codec Engineer, ByteDance, USA

M.Sc. Students

Md Azim Uddin

• "A Novel Rectifier Design for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Using Cross-Coupled Topology"
• First Placement: Intel, USA

Rashik Shadman

• "The Development of Neural Network Architectures for Image Classification to Prevent Sudden Infant Death in Smart Buildings"
• First Placement: Ph.D. Student, Clarkson University, USA

• "Quality Inspection of Screw Heads Using Memristor Neural Networks"
• First Placement: Research Assistant, Xiamen University, China

Dr Spyros Tragoudas

Ph.D. Students

Herath Senarathna Danushka

• "Trustworthy Embedded Systems based on Deep Neural Networks"
• First Placement: Synopsys Inc., USA

Xiaoqian Chen

• "Imbalanced Time Series Forecasting and Neural Time-series Classification"
• First Placement: Postdoc at Emory University School of Medicine, USA

Bijay Raj Paudel

• "Accuracy Considerations in Deep Learning using Memristive Crossbar Arrays"
• First Placement: Intel Corp., USA

Ramesh Puneet Savanur

• "Techniques to Address Manufacturing Defects in Deep Sub-micron"
• First Position: Nvidia Corp, USA

Krishna Gnawali

• "Emerging Memory-based Designs and Resiliency to Radiation Effects"
• First Position: Synopsys Corp., USA

Basim Shanyour

• "Testing and Security considerations in the presence of process variations"
• FirstPostion: Qualcomm Corporation, USA

M.S. Students

Bishal Lamichhane

• "Multi-area Continuous-Time Optimal Power Flow and Generation Scheduling using a Distributed Algorithm"
• First Postion: Electric Power Engineers (EPE), USA

Md. Rezoan Ferdous

• "Predicting YOLO Misdetection using Feature Map Activations"
• First Position: University of Florida (Ph.D. program in ECE), USA

Kamal Bin Shafi

• "Accelerated Cellular Traction Calculation by Predictions using Deep Learning"
• First Postion: North Carolina State University (Ph.D. program in ECE), USA

• "A Current-based Winner-Take-All (WTA) Circuit for Analog Neural Network Architecture"
• First Postion: Apple Inc, USA

• "Test Set Compaction Considering Test Application Time in Full Scan Circuits"
• First Postion: Synopsys, USA

• "Comparison of Adversarial Robustness of ANN and SNN towards Black Box Attacks"
• First Postion: Intel Corp., USA