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- Bharat Sukhwani
- Shihchin Chiu
- Ashfaq Khan
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- Yunfei Qiu
- Atabak Mahram
- Huaxin Dai
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Martin Herbordt |
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Jin Park |
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Bharat Sukhwani |
Shihchin Chiu |
Biography |
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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. |
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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
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Ashfaq Khan |
Yunfei Qiu |
Atabak Mahram |
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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. |
Alumni
Yongfeng Gu Ph.D. 2008 |
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Tony Dean M.S. 2008 |
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George Bishop
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Francois Kosie M.S. 2007 |
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Josh Model M.S. 2007 |
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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 |
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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 VanCourt Ph.D. 2006 |
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Doug DiSabello M.S. 2006 |
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Chiaochi Huang M.S. 2006 |
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Matt Graham B.S. 2006 |
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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.
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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. Khaled Benkrid Visiting Scientist |
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Dan Brunina M.S. 2005 |
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Vikas Mundada M.S. 2005 |
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Samir Belkacemi Visiting Scholar |
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Al Conti B.S. 2004 |
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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.
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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. |
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