Niraj Jha's students

Ph.D. Students graduated

• Qiao Tong, July '90
  Member of Technical Staff
  Advantest
  Thesis title: Testing and design for testability of CMOS logic circuits
  
• Bapiraju Vinnakota, August '91
  Senior Member of Technical Research Staff
  Osagepartners
  Thesis title: Analysis, design and synthesis of algorithm-based fault tolerant systems
  
• Sying-Jyan Wang, August '92
  Professor
  National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  Thesis title: Design and analysis of fault tolerant multistage interconnection networks
  
• Tien-Chien Lee , August '93 (jointly with Prof. Wayne Wolf)
  Member of Technical Staff
  Avant!, San Jose
  Thesis title: Behavioral Synthesis of highly testable data paths in VLSI circuits
  
• Shalini Yajnik , July '94
  Director of Engineering
  Dialpad
  Thesis title: Design and analysis of algorithm-based fault tolerant systems under the extended graph-theoretic model
  
• Sandeep Bhatia , August '94
  Senior R&D Director
  Oasys Design Systems
  Thesis title: Synthesis for testability of digital VLSI circuits
  
• Santhanam Srinivasan , August '95
  Member of Technical Staff
  Parama Networks, Inc., Shrewsbury
  Thesis title: Low overhead fault tolerance schemes for distributed systems
  
• Anand Raghunathan , April '97
  Professor
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Thesis title: High-level power analysis and optimization
  
• Bharat Dave , Jan '98
  Chief Executive Officer
  Alphion Corp., Eatontown, NJ
  Thesis title: Hardware/software co-design of heterogeneous real-time distributed embedded systems
  
• Indradeep Ghosh , April '98
  Chief Executive Officer
  Fujitsu Labs of America, Sunnyvale
  Thesis title: High-level testability analysis and optimization
  
• Ganesh Lakshminarayana , Aug. '98
  Trader
  Citadel Investment Group
  Thesis title: High-level performance and power optimization techniques
  
• Kamal S. Khouri , July '00
  Research Staff Member
  Freescale Semiconductor, Austin
  Thesis title: Power and performance analysis and optimization techniques for high-level synthesis
  
• Srivaths Ravi , Jan. '01
  Research Staff Member
  Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India
  Thesis title: Techniques for high-level testability analysis and optimization
  
• Robert Dick , June '02
  Associate Professor
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Thesis title: Multiobjective synthesis of low-power real-time distributed embedded systems
  
• Jiong Luo , July '03
  Member of Technical Staff
  Synopsys, San Jose
  Thesis title: System-level power optimization for real-time distributed embedded systems
  
• Tat Kee Tan , Dec. '03
  Member of Technical Staff
  Google, Santa Clara
  Thesis title: High-level energy analysis and optimization of operating system driven embedded software
  
• Weidong Wang , Apr. '04
  Member of Technical Staff
  Facebook, San Jose
  Thesis title: Data-driven techniques for hardware and software synthesis for embedded systems
  
• Li Shang , July '04
  Associate Professor
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  Thesis title: System-level power analysis and optimization
  
• Yunsi Fei , Aug. '04
  Associate Professor
  Northeastern University
  Thesis title: System-level energy analysis and optimization of embedded systems
  
• Keith Vallerio , Aug. '04
  Member of Technical Staff
  Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Newtown, PA
  Thesis title: Design techniques for energy-efficient embedded and mobile computing systems
  
• Chao Huang , Aug. '05
  Member of Technical Staff
  Bank of America
  Thesis title: High-level synthesis of distributed architectures for memory-intensive applications
  
• Lin Zhong , Aug. '05
  Professor
  Yale University
  Thesis title: Energy-efficient mobile system design: The user's perspective
  
• Fei Sun , Oct. '05
  Member of Technical Staff
  Alibaba
  Thesis title: Synthesis methodologies for embedded extensible processor systems
  
• Rui Zhang , Sept. '06
  Vice President
  Goldman Sachs
  Thesis title: Computer-aided design algorithms and tools for nanotechnologies
  
• Loganathan Lingappan , Sept. '06
  Member of Technical Staff
  Intel
  Thesis title: Satisfiability based sequential test generation and design for testability for mixed register-transfer/gate-level circuits
  
• Le Yan , Sept. '06
  Member of Technical Staff
  Renaissance Technologies
  Thesis title: Energy-efficient operating system design for mobile systems
• Pallav Gupta , Dec. '06
  Member of Technical Staff
  Intel, Folsom, CA
  Thesis title: Synthesis and testing methodologies for reversible, threshold, and majority logic circuits
• Divya Arora , Oct. '07
  Platform Security Architect
  Apple, OR
  Thesis title: Embedded system security: Hardware/software architectures and design methodologies
• Nachiketh Potlapally , Dec. '07
  Senior Security Engineer
  Oracle
  Thesis title: Topics in secure embedded system design
• Najwa Aaraj , May '09
  Chief Research Officer
  Crypto Center, Technology Innovation Institute
  Thesis title: Software and hardware architectures for secure system design
• Wei Zhang , Sept. '09
  Associate Professor
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Thesis title: Nanoelectronic dynamically reconfigurable FPGA design and design automation
• Amit Kumar , Apr. '10
  Member of Technical Staff
  Apple
  Thesis title: Performance and energy optimizations for interconnection networks with system-level extensions
• Muzaffer Simsir , May '10
  Chief Data Officer
  ING
  Thesis title: Nanoelectronic design and test
• Niket Agarwal , May '11
  Member of Technical Staff
  Google
  Thesis title: In-network coherence techniques for scalable shared memory
• Prateek Mishra , Oct. '12
  Deceased
  Thesis title: Low-power FinFET circuit design and synthesis under spatial and temporal variations
• Chunxiao Li , Oct. '12
  Member of Technical Staff
  D. E. Shaw
  Thesis title: System design and verification methodologies for secure computing
• Ajay Bhoj , Feb. '13
  Member of Technical Staff
  Scaled Inference
  Thesis title: Device-circuit co-design approaches for multi-gate FET technologies
• Chun-Yi Lee , Apr. '13
  Assistant Professor
  National Tsing Hua University
  Thesis title: Methodologies and simulation framework for architectural analysis and power management of FinFET chip multiprocessors
• Meng Zhang , May '13
  Member of Technical Staff
  WorldQuant
  Thesis title: Energy-efficient designs for securing embedded and mobile computing systems
• Shuayb Mohammed Zarar , July '13
  Member of Technical Staff
  Microsoft Research
  Thesis title: Design of energy-efficient sensing systems with direct computations on compressively-sensed data
• Jun Wei Chuah , Aug. '13
  Member of Technical Staff
  Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Thesis title: Analysis and optimization of building energy consumption
• Ting-Jung Lin , Nov. '13
  Member of Technical Staff
  Synopsys, Shanghai
  Thesis title: Design of dynamically-reconfigurable architectures aimed at reducing FPGA-ASIC gaps
• Chia-Chun Lin , Jan. '14
  Member of Technical Staff
  Verkada, San Jose
  Thesis title: Reversible and quantum circuit synthesis
• Sourindra M. Chaudhuri , Jan. '15
  Assistant Professor
  Indian Institute of Technology
  Thesis title: Efficient device simulation and power optimization techniques for novel FinFET circuit design
• Aoxiang Tang , Mar. '15
  Member of Technical Staff
  Spacetouch
  Thesis title: Delay/power modeling and optimization techniques for low-power FinFET logic circuits and architectures
• Xianmin Chen , Mar. '15
  Senior Staff Software Engineer
  Tesla
  Thesis title: FinFET-based system modeling and low-power system design
• Debajit Bhattacharya , Sept. '16
  Member of Technical Staff
  Intel
  Thesis title: Exploring the system hierarchy from devices to on-chip communication
• Arsalan Mosenia , Dec. '16
  Member of Technical Staff
  Google
  Thesis title: Addressing security and privacy challenges in Internet of Things
• Ye Yu , May '19
  Member of Technical Staff
  Microsoft
  Thesis title: Heterogeneous monolithic 3D and FinFET architectures for energy-efficient computing
• Abdullah Guler , June '19
  Member of Technical Staff
  Intel
  Thesis title: FinFET-based SRAM and monolithic 3-D integrated circuit design
• Xiaoliang Dai , July '19
  Member of Technical Staff
  Facebook AI Research
  Thesis title: Synthesis of efficient neural networks
• Hongxu Yin , Apr. '20
  Member of Technical Staff
  nVidia Research
  Thesis title: Smart healthcare via efficient machine learning
• Ozge Akmandor , May '20
  Member of Technical Staff
  Apple Research
  Thesis title: Accurate, energy-efficient, and secure machine learning models: Applications to smart healthcare
• Jie (Lucy) Lu , June '21
  Member of Technical Staff
  IBM, Yorktown Heights
  Thesis title: Energy-efficient implementation of machine learning algorithms
• Tanujay Saha , May '22
  Member of Technical Staff
  Intel
  Thesis title: Machine learning-based efficient and generalizable cybersecurity frameworks
• Shayan Hassantabar , June '22
  Member of Technical Staff
  Expedia
  Thesis title: Efficient neural network synthesis and its application in smart healthcare
• Prerit Terway , Aug. '23
  Post-doc
  Computer Science, UCLA
  Thesis title: AI framework for improved system design and explainable decisions
• Shikhar Tuli , Nov. '23
  Senior Research Scientist
  Samsung, Mountain View
  Thesis title: Enhancing deep neural networks in diverse resource-constrained hardware settings
  

Current Ph.D. Students

• Sayeri Lala
  
• Chia Hao Li
  
• Bhishma Dedhia
  
• Chang Yue
  
• Alexander La Cour
  
• Hongjie Wang
  
• Margarita Belova
  
• Yihao Liang
  
• Jiaxin Xiao
  

Previous Post-doctoral Researchers

• Amlan Chakrabarti , Aug. '11 - Aug. '12
  
• Gao Xun , Apr. '12 - Apr. '13
  
• Mehran Mozaffari Kermani , Jan. '12 - Aug. '13
  

Senior Theses

• Sreya Basuroy, May '17
  Thesis title: Continuous authentication based on BioAura (CABA) 2.0
  
• Vincent Karuri, May '17
  Thesis title: A machine learning approach to privacy in audio-enabled IoT devices
  
• Ahmed Musse, May '17
  Thesis title: Wearable medical devices (WMDs) for stress detection and mitigation
  
• Chloe Song, May '17
  Thesis title: Energy modeling for improved security of IoT sensors
  
• Tanvee Deokule, May '18
  Thesis title: Machine learning approaches for menstrual cycle forecasting
  
• DongGyun Kim, May '18
  Thesis title: Deconstructing Mozart: A GAN-style approach to raw audio processing and generation
  
• Jamil A. Merali, May '18
  Thesis title: Building an IoT blockchain platform
  
• Freddy Hertan, May '19
  Thesis title: PReMVOS with ConvLSTM; exploiting recurrence for video object segmentation
  
• Astrid Montanez-Garay, May '19
  Thesis title: Blockchain applied to IoT medical devices for secure patient monitoring
  
• Bilal Mukadam, May '19
  Thesis title: An end-to-end diabetes dignosis system powered by machine learning
  
• Julia Ruddy, May '19
  Thesis title: Incorporating machine learning into medical device security
  
• Neel Ajjarapu, May '20
  Thesis title: Applications of machine learning to causal networks for generating attacks on networked systems
  
• Jacob Brown, May '20
  Thesis title: GRAVITAS: Graphical reticulated attack vectors for Internet-of-Things aggregate security
  
• Kevin Liu, May '20
  Thesis title: Analyzing WhatsApp security with dynamic binary instrumentation
  
• Hari Santhanam, May '20
  Thesis title: Video synthesis: Binary masks to frames via DeepInversion
  
• Joe Zhang, May '20
  Thesis title: LEADD: Learning efficient and accurate disease diagnoses
  
• David Zuluaga, May '20
  Thesis title: Improved binary classification with compact neural networks using AdaBoost, SCANN & SMOTE oversampling
  
• Saisha Agrawal, May '21
  Thesis title: Towards the automatic discovery of recurrent neural network architectures
  
• Kavya Chandran, May '21
  Thesis title: Hierarchically learning digital circuit primitives and the laws of Boolean algebra
  
• Ethan Thai, May '21
  Thesis title: DeepInversion for medical image generation
  
• Roshini Balasubramanian, May '22
  Thesis title: Digital twins for Friedreich’s Ataxia: A sequence-to-sequence model of disease progression
  
• Mayalen Brock, May '22
  Thesis title: Smart healthcare: Adding rules to machine learning models to diagnose diseases
  
• Raphael Njoku, May '22
  Thesis title: Ready, dataset, go: Using rule- and semantic-based augmentation to improve disease prediction ML models
  
• Xiaorun Wu, May '22
  Thesis title: AdvTranSafemer: Robust policy learning via transformer and adversarial attack
  
• Mason El-Habr, May '23
  Thesis title: Algorithmic detection of label errors in ImageNet via clustering of loss curves
  
• Katelyn Yang, May '23
  Thesis title: Escaping the poverty trap: Poverty alleviation with SCouT