Computer Architecture and Automated Design Lab

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Assistants

Alumni

• Martin Herbordt

• Jin Park

• Bharat Sukhwani
• Shihchin Chiu
• Ashfaq Khan

• Yunfei Qiu
• Atabak Mahram
• Huaxin Dai

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Assistants

Martin Herbordt

Jin Park

Bharat Sukhwani

Shihchin Chiu

Biography

Jin Park joined CAAD Lab in January 2008. 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. His research interests have been in the fields of high performance computing, parallel processing, application specific architectures, low power system design, etc. He authored 24 peer reviewed articles in journals and conference proceedings, and has been working as session organizer/chair/program committee member of about 20 international conferences mostly in the fields of parallel processing and computer architecture. Currently, he works on the project of FPGA acceleration of BLAST which is a searching tool for biomolecular sequences.

Bharat 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. During his masters, he did research in the field of VLSI design and CAD at the Digital VLSI Design lab (DVDL) at the University of Arizona. His masters thesis involved development of a simulation tool for nanotechnology devices. Bharat is currently a PhD candidate at the lab. He joined the lab in Fall 2005. Bharat has been working on the acceleration of molecular docking and sequence alignment algorithms using FPGAs. Bharat received Sir Ratan Tata Trust Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies in 2000, Graduate Tuition Scholarship at University of Arizona in 2002 and Boston University College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship Award in 2005.

Shihchin "Matt" joined the lab in September 2007 and is currently working on developing FPGA applications for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, especially Molecular Dynamics. From 2001 to 2005 Matt was a circuit design engineer at Sun Microsystems where he designed SRAM and custom circuits for the Gemini and Niagara processors. He received his MSEE from the University of Southern California in 2001 and his BS in Physics from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan in 1997. Matt was awarded the ECE Prize at the 2007 BU ECE Day, and in 2006 was named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow for the College of Engineering.

Research Assistants

Ashfaq Khan

Yunfei Qiu

Atabak Mahram

Huaxin Dai

Ashfaq joined the lab in September 2008 and is currently working on FPGA and multi-core applications for Bio-informatics and Computational Biology, especially Discrete Molecular Dynamics. He received his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 2004 and 2006 respectively. His undergraduate and masters research involved time-multiplexing of Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGAs. Before joining the lab, Ashfaq worked for Sony Corporation, Japan from April 2006 to August 2008. His job responsibilities included developing embedded software and simulator for the Cell processor. Ashfaq received The Tohoku University President's Award in 2004 and The Boston University College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship Award in 2008.

Yunfei joined the lab in January 2008 and is currently working on developing FPGA accelerators for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology applications, especially the BLAST algorithm acceleration by using FPGA and system design. He graduated from Boston University in May 2009 with a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering. Yunfei was an undergraduate student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2002 to 2006 and received his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering there. From 2006 to 2007 Yunfei worked as a system engineer and participated in several successful advanced network implementations.

Atabak received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2004, and his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran in 2007. Atabak is currently a PhD student at Computer Architecture and Automated Design Lab at Boston University. He joined the lab in Summer of 2009. Atabak is working on FPGA based acceleration of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools and algorithms.

Huaxin Dai joined the lab in June 2009 and is currently working on developing GPU and FPGA applications for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, especially Energy Minimization and design flow of C-to-FPGA co-designs. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in China. He is currently pursuing his Master of Science degree at Boston University.

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