Research

Funded Projects:

• “A Discovery-Based First Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Course Emphasizing Real-World Projects that Benefits Society,” NSF (06-536, DUE-CCLI-Phase I: Exploratory)

• “CAREER: Overcoming Power Challenges in Embedded System Design With Subthreshold-Voltage Technology,” NSF (0747262, CCF), 

• “TC: Medium: From Statistics to Circuits: Foundations for Future On-Chip Identifiers,” NSF CISE/TC .

• “Environment for Fair and Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Cryptographic Hardware and Software”, National Institute of Standards and Technology

• “NEMS-enabled Power Gating Techniques for Future Low Power Design”, National Science Foundation.

• “SaTC:STARRS: FAME: Fault-attack Awareness using Microprocessor Enhancements”, National Science Foundation.

•  “Efficiency of Logic Minimization Algorithms”, National Institute of Science and Technology.

• “A Fast-Response Odor Detector for Food Analysis”; National Science Foundation.

• “Intelligent wearable analyzer for vapor exposure (iWAVE) in transportation sector”; The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 

• Center of Excellence in Integrated Sensing and Cyber with Authentication”, US Department of Defense

• “Implantable µ-Oncologists,” Virginia Tech ICTAS 

• “Unique and Unclonable On-Chip Identifiers,” Virginia Tech ICTAS 

Academic Advisees:

1. Michael B. Henry

Ph.D., defended in November 2011 (Founder and CEO of Mythic AI)

2. Dinesh Ganta

Ph.D., defended in December 2014 (currently at Intel)

3. Meeta Srivastav

Ph.D., defended in December 2014 (currently at Samsung)

4. Vignesh Vivekraja

M.S., defended Aug 2010 (currently at NVidia)

5. Sinan Huang

M.S., defended May 2011 (currently at Apple)

6. Lalleh Rafeei

M.S., defended in April 2012 (currently at Intel)

7. Yongbo Zuo

M.S., defended in June 2012 (currently at AMD)

8. Apoorva Garg (co-advised)

M.S., defended in August 2014 (currently at Facebook)

9. Rashmi Mougdil

M.S., defended in May 2013 (currently at NVIDIA)

10. Marjan Ghodratei

M.S., defended in May 2017 (currently at EnerSys)

11. Chinmay Deshpande

M.S., defended in July 2017 (currently at Apple)

12. Surabhi Gujar

M.S., defended in July 2018 (currently at Apple)

13. Shashank Raghuraman

M.S., defended in July 2019 (currently at Qualcom)

14. Varun Rege

M.S., defended in  defended in September 2021 (currently an engineer at Intel)

15. Poonam Gupta

M.S., defended in February 2023 (currently an engineer at Qualcomm)

16. Arjun Sharma

M.S., defended in February 2023 (currently an engineer at Western Digital)

17. Evan Clark

M.S., defended in July 2023 (currently an engineer at Communications Engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)

18. Divya Korada

M.S., defended in May 2024 

19. Anson Trapani

M.S., defended in May 2025

20. Manav Shah

M.S., defended in April 2026