Computer Architecture and Automated Design Lab

Bharat completed his Ph.D dissertation titled Accelerating Molecular Docking and Binding Site Mapping using FPGAs and GPUs under Dr. Herbordt in 2010. Previously, he received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India in 2001 and his Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 2005. Upon completion of his PhD, Bharat accepted the Research Staff Member position at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Hts., NY.

Huaxin graduated from Boston University in May 2010 with MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, he received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in China. Huaxin accepted a position at Immedia Semiconductor.

Jin was a postdoctoral researcher at the CAAD lab from January 2008 to December 2009. Before joining the lab, he had been an assistant professor in Computer Science Department at State University of New York at New Paltz (1999-2007) after receiving his Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University in 1998. Jin accepted a postdoctoral researcher position in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics department at the University of Southern California

Yunfei graduated from Boston University in May 2009 with a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering. Previously, Yunfei received his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. Yunfei accepted a position at Cavium Networks

Yongfeng (Maple) completed his Ph.D dissertation titled FPGA Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics Simulations under Dr. Herbordt in 2008. Previously, he received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 2000 and his Masters degree in Computer Science from the same university in 2003. Yongfeng is currently working at The Mathworks in Natick, MA

Tony graduated from Boston University in May 2008 with MS in Computer Systems Engineering. Previously, he received a Masters of Arts in Biology Teaching from Fitchburg State College in 2001 and a BA in Biology with a Marine Science Specialty from Boston University in 1995. Tony is currently working as a software developer at General Dynamics C4 Systems in Needham.

George received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2007. During his undergraduate career, he did internships at Burnham Engineering in Lancaster, PA and New York City Transit in New York, NY. George is currently working at Lockheed Martin

Francois received his MS degree from Boston University in 2007. He is currently working at Teradyne

Josh graduated from Boston University in May 2007 with a Master's in Computer Systems Engineering. He previously earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2001. Since then he has spent his time at MIT Lincoln Laboratory working on satellite and RF communications, FPGAs, and charged particle detectors. Josh returned to Linconl Labs after finishing his MS.

Tom completed his dissertation, titled LAMP: Tools for Creating Application-specific FPGA Coprocessors, under Prof. Herbordt in 2006. He previously earned his M.S. (2001) in Computer Science at Boston Unoversity's Metropolitan College, where he was awarded the Metropolitan College Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, and his B.S. (1978) in engineering at Cornell University. Tom is currently working at Altera in Santa Cruz, developing software tools for accelerating FPGA computations.

Doug graduated from Boston University in May 2006 with a Master's in Computer Systems Engineering. He previously earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 2004. He has been a member of the CAAD Laboratory since 2003. His main research area focusses on fault tolerance methods for SRAM based FPGAs. Doug completed his M.S. in 2006.

Chiaochi completed her Master's program under Prof. Herbordt in 2006. Her work centered on FPGA implementation of Bayesion networks analysis for exploring gene regulatory networks. She previously received her Bachelor's degree from Feng Chia University's department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, in Taiwan. After MS, Chiaochi joined Marvell.

Matt has completed his B.S in Boston University's Electrical Engineering program. He worked under Professor Herbordt in the UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities) Program, investigating special purpose computing structures for problems in biology and chemistry. He was a member of BU's Engineering Scholars Program and a recipient of the 2004 Stratus Scholarship.

Dr. Benkrid visited the lab during June and July 2005. He is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include Electronic Design Automation, Hardware Compilation, Custom Computing using FPGAs and Image and Video Processing.

Dan was a master's student in Computer Systems Engineering with a concentration in computer architecture and hardware. Dan received his Masters' degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University in May 2005. On leaving the CAAD lab, Dan accepted a position at IBM.

Vikas was a master's student in Computer Systems Engineering, graduating in May 2005, with his concentration in hardware and computer architecture. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in August 2003. Vikas has accepted a position at Raytheon.

Samir was a Visiting Scholar at the CAAD lab at Boston University during 2004. He acquired his PhD (2005) in Computer Science at Queen's University of Belfast (United Kingdom), on High Level Hardware Description Environment for FPGA-Based High Performance Computing. Samir is currently working at Lattice Semiconductor.

Al graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering. Al's work focused on hardware design for string matching and repetitive structure detection. He received his master's degree from Northeastern University working in the Rapid Prototyping laboratory with Dr. Miriam Leeser. Al is currently working at Mitre.