People

Ph.D. Students

• Peiyi Li
• Hrushikesh Patil
• Yavuz Tozlu

Visiting Students

• Shengen Yan (a Ph.D. student from Institute of Software, CAS, China; June 2013-Feb. 2014)
• Yonghua Mao (a Ph.D. student from Xian Jiaotong University, China, Jan. 2014-Dec. 2014)
• Chen Zhao (a Ph.D. student from Xian Jiaotong University, China, Feb. 2016-July 2016)
• Xinjian Long (a Ph.D. student from BUPT, China, Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2020)

Visiting Faculty

• Prof. Jizeng Wei, Tianjin University, Feb. 2014-Feb. 2015.
• Prof. Suxia Zhu, Harbin Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Aug. 2017-July 2018
• Prof. Yanan Qiao, Xian Jiaotong Univ., Sep. 2018- 2019

Alumni

• Hongliang Gao PhD’08, 2008-09 Award of Outstanding Dissertation, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Central Florida. (First job: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR) Dissertation: Improving Branch Prediction Accuracy via Effective Source Information and Prediction Algorithms
• Martin Dimitrov, PhD’10 (First job: Intel Corp., AZ) Dissertation: Architectural Support for Improving System Hardware/Software Reliability
• Jingfei Kong, PhD’10 (First job: AMD Inc., Orlando, FL) Dissertation: Architectural Support for Improving Computer Security
• Yi Yang, PhD’13, (First job: NEC Lab, NJ) Dissertation: Architectural Support and Compiler Optimization for Many-Core Architectures
• Saurabh Gupta, PhD’14 (First job: Oak Ridge Nat. Lab, TN) Dissertation: Locality Dirven Memory Hierarchy Optimizations
• Ping Xiang, PhD’14 (First job: Apple Inc., Orlando, FL) Dissertation: Toward Efficient SIMT Execution: A Microarchitecture Perspective
• Chao Li, PhD’16 (First job: Qualcomm Inc., San Jose, CA) Dissertation: Optimizing Memory Efficiency for Many-Core Architecture
• Hongwen Dai, PhD’17 (First job: Apple Inc., San Jose, CA) Dissertation: GPU Memory Architecture Optimization
• Zhen Lin, PhD’19 (First job: Apple Inc., San Jose, CA) Dissertation: Architectural Support for Efficient GPU Multiprogramming
• Ji Liu, PhD’21 (First job: Argonne National Lab, Chicago, IL), Dissertation: Leveraging Quantum State Information for Dynamic Assertions and Compiler Optimizations
• Alex Frejj, PhD’22 (co-advised with Prof. Yan Solihin) (First job: AMD Inc., Austin, TX), Dissertation: Efficient Crash Consistency in Emerging Secure Persistent Memory Architectures
• Shougang Yuan, PhD’23 (First job: Samsung Inc.) Dissertation: Bandwidth-Efficient Secure Memory Designs for GPUs

• Yi Ma (M.S.) (Facebook, CA)
• Ping Xiang (M.S. 2010, Ph.D. student at NCSU) Thesis: Analyzing Instruction Based Cache Replacement Policies
• Zhaoshi Zheng (M.S. 2010) Thesis: A FPGA-based Architecture for LED Backlight
• Nikunj Bhansali (Independent study, spring 2011)
• Maulik Bakulbhai Padia , Kashyap Amboju (Independent study, spring 2015)
• Chintan Panirwala (M.S. thesis, 2012, First job: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR) Thesis: Exploring Correlation for Indirect Branch Prediction
• Mayank Kothiya (M.S. thesis, 2014, First job: Oracle Inc, CA) Thesis: Understanding the ISA Impact on GPU Architecture
• Yuan Liu (M.S, 2014)
• Xiangyang Guo (M.S. thesis, 2016, First job: Intel Corp.) Thesis: A Study of Code Compilation and Garbage Collection on Android
• Qi Jia (M.S. thesis, 2016, First job: Qualcomm, NC) Thesis: Tuning Stencil Codes in OpenCL for FPGAs
• Deepak Chandra (M.S. thesis 2018, First job: Apple, CA) Thesis: Developing a Simulation Framework for Vulkan