Members
Principal investigator : Biswajit Ray, Associate Professor, ECE
Contact
301 Sparkman Drive
Engineering Building, Room 263G
Huntsville, AL 35899
phone: 256.824.5679
email: biswajit.ray@uah.edu
Experience
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2022-Present
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2017-2022
Senior Device Engineer, SanDisk Corporation, Milpitas, CA, 2013-2017
Education
Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2013
M.S., Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2008
B.Tech., Electrical & Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, 2006
Current Students
Ms Farzana Hoque (Embedded memory)
Short bio: Farzana joined UAH and Ray Research Group in Fall 2022. Her research foucues on reliability of embedded memory.
Date: Aug. 2022- Present
Email: fh0016@uah.edu
Publications:
Mr Anik Mondol (Neuromorphic Computing)
Short bio: Mondol Anik Kumar is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). His primary research interest lies in the application of novel non-volatile storage devices in emerging fields beyond Von-Neumann computation, edge computing, low power electronics and the inherent reliability concerns of these devices. He earned a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) back in 2018. Prior to joining the PhD program in EE at the ECE department of UAH, he worked as an independent contractor at Applied Materials, Italy (2018-2021)
Date: Jan. 2022- Present
Email: mk0144@uah.edu
Publications:
Mr Horace Wilson (Hardware security)
Short bio: Horace Wilson is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2020. His research interest area is in radiation effects.
Date: Aug. 2021- Present
Email: hjw0011@uah.edu
Publications:
Ms Matchima Buddhanoy (Flash storage)
Short bio: Matchima Buddhanoy (Misha) is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). She received her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio in 2019. Her research interest area is in reliability of NAND flash memory particularly in extreme temperature environments.
Date: Aug. 2019- Present
Email: mb0194@uah.edu
Publications:
Mr. Umeshwarnath (Thesis Topic: Radiation Effects)
Short bio: Umeshwarnath Surendranathan (Umesh) is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and communication at CMRIT- Bangalore (2017), and his master’s degree in Communications and Signal Processing at UAH (2019). He has a great appreciation for modern technology like Computers and Mobile Phones that get taken for granted, so he is in the pursuit of fully understanding and improving on them. His research interests include Radiation effects and the reliability of modern electronics.
Date: Jan. 2020- Present
Email: us0003@uah.edu
Publications:
Mr. MD Raquibuzzaman (Thesis Topic: 3D NAND Storage)
Short bio: Md Raquibuzzaman is pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He received his Masters degree (MSE) in Electrical engineering from UAH, spring-2018 and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Islamic University of Technology (IUT),Gazipur, Bangladesh, 2014. Mr. Raquib’s research interest includes the fabrication and characterization of thin films, the reliability of devices, and systems.
Date: Aug. 2018- Present
Email: mr0068@uah.edu
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Group Alumni
Graduated Ph.D. Students:
Dr. Sijay Huang (Ph.D. in ECE, UAH awarded in Spring 2023)
Thesis Title: “Exploring Reliabiliy Issues in Non-volatile Memories Using Numerical Simulation”
Position after graduation: Snead State College, Alabama
Dr. Preeti Kumari (Ph.D. in ECE, UAH awarded in Spring 2021)
Thesis Title: “Total Ionizing Dose Effects on the State-of-the-art NAND Flash Memories with an Emphasis on Dosimeter Design”
Position after graduation: Micron Technology, Boise, ID
Dr. Sadman Sakib (Ph.D. in ECE, UAH awarded in Spring, 2021)
Thesis Title: "Hardware Security Primitives using NAND Flash Memory”
Position after graduation: Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
Graduated M.S. Students :
Ms Matchima Buddhanoy
Thesis Title: Experimental Evaluation of Data Retention Characteristics of NAND Flash Memories.
Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD at UAH
Md Mehedi Hasan
Thesis Title: Security and Privacy Threat of Scrubbed NAND Flash Memory and Countermeasure.
Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD at Stony Brook University
Undergraduate Students
Mr. Levi Davies (Honor Thesis, Aug. 2017- May 2018)
Mr. Ryan Thornton (Senior Design Project, Spring 2018)
Mr. Paul Hudson (Senior Design Project, Spring 2018)
Mr. Stephen Ritter ( Senior Design Project, Spring 2018)
Mr. Connor Brown ( Senior Design Project, Spring 2018)
Mr. Tyler Pigg (Senior Design Project, Spring 2018)
