Students

Current Students

Sayan Samanta (PhD student)

Graduated PhD and Masters Students

Ranjan Hebbar (PhD, Summer 2021; first job: VmWare, Palo Alto, CA)

• Dissertation: PMU-Events-Driven DVFS Techniques for Improving Energy-Efficiency in Modern Processors

Prawar Poudel (PhD, Spring 2021; first job: IBM, Austin,TX)

• Dissertation: Exploiting Physical Properties of Flash Memories for Enhancing Security and Energy-Efficiency of Embedded Systems

Igor Semenov (M.S., Summer 2020; first job: Cepton, San Jose, CA)

• Thesis: An Implementation of ChaCha20 Stream Cypher in All-Programmable SoCs
• Artifacts: Github FpgaCha

Mounika Ponugoti (PhD, Summer 2019; first job: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA)

• Dissertation: Hardware Data Value Tracing in Multicores

Ranjan Hebbar Seethur Raviraj (M.S., Spring 2018; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: SPEC 2017: Performance, Energy, and Event Characterization on Modern Processors

Prawar Poudel (M.S., Spring 2018; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: Using NOR Flash Memory in Microcontrollers for Generating True Random Numbers

Ryan A. Cowart (M.S., Fall 2017; first job: Navigation Technology Associates, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: An Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of Hardware Accelerated Ciphers in All-Programmable SoCs on Embedded and Workstation Computer Platforms

Mounika Ponugoti (M.S., Fall 2016; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: Techniques for Capturing and Filtering Data Value Traces in Multicores

Armen Dzhagaryan (PhD, Fall 2016; first job: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL)

• Dissertation: A Framework for Optimizating Data Transfers Between Edge Devices and the Cloud Using Compression Utilities

Amrish K. Tewar (M.S., Spring 2015; first job: MathWorks, Natick, MA)

• Thesis: Experimental Evaluation of Techniques for Capturing and Compressing Hardware Traces in Multicores

Albert Myers (M.S., Spring 2014; first job: AMRDEC, Huntsville AL)

• Thesis: A Binary Instrumentation Tool Suite for Capturing and Compressing Traces for Multithreaded Software

Mladen Milosevic (PhD, primary advisor: Dr. Jovanov, Summer 2013; first job: Philips Research North America, Briarcliff, NY)

• Disseration: Energy-efficient Distributed Wearable Physiological Monitoring: Framework and Implementations

Armen Dzhagaryan (M.S., Spring 2013, first job: Gleason Research Associates, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: Performance and Energy Efficiency of Common Compression/Decompression Utilities: An Experimental Study in Mobile and Workstation Computer Platforms

John Stenmark (M.S., Spring 2010; first job: Dynetics, Huntsville AL)

• Thesis: Program Execution Trace Compression Analysis Tool

Vladimir Uzelac (PhD, Spring 2010; M.S., Spring 2008; first job: Tensilica, San Jose, CA)

• Dissertation: Algorithms and Hardware Structures for Real-Time Compression of Program Traces
• Thesis: Microbenchmarks and Mechanisms for Reverse Engineering of Modern Branch Predictor Units

Austin Rogers (PhD, Spring 2010; M.S., Fall 2007; B.Sc., Spring 2005; first job: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL)

• Dissertation: Designing Cost-Effective Secure Processors for Embedded Systems: Principles, Challenges, and Architectural Solutions
• Thesis: Low Overhead Hardware Techniques for Software and Data Integrity and Confidentiality in Embedded Systems

Richard Tuggle (M.S.; Fall 2007; first job: People Tec, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: Multiple Path Management Protocol For the Real-time Distributed Control of Sensors and Effectors

Chris Otto (M.S., Fall 2006; primary advisor is Dr. Jovanov; won 2nd award at Alabama Launchpad 2007; first job: Cofounder, President and CEO of Halo Monitoring, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: An Implementation of a Wireless Body Area Network for Ambulatory Health Monitoring

Milena Milenkovic (PhD, Spring 2005; first job: IBM, Austin, TX)

• Dissertation: Architectures for Run-time Verification of Code Integrity

Graduated Undergraduate Researchers

Svetlana Freeman (Spring’23)

Kevin King (Spring’23)

Ethan O’Quin (Spring’21-Spring’22)

Jacob Walsh (B.Sc., 2015)

Ryan Lindquist (B.Sc., 2016; summer undergraduate researcher; Auburn University student)

Sunny Patel (B.Sc., 2014; 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Student of ECE and COE; first job: Intergraph, Huntsville, AL)

Wil Gilmore (B.Sc., 2013; first job: Lockheed Martin, Huntsville, AL)

Armen Dzhagaryan (B.Sc., 2011; first job: Adtran, Huntsville, AL)

Fasil Mulat (B.Sc., 2011; first job: graduate student at Auburn University)

Nason Tackett (B.Sc., 2011; won the best Senior Design award; first job: Quantum Technologies Inc, Huntsville, AL)

Jim Marks (B.Sc., 2007; SURF 2006 - summer undergraduate research award; first job: Raytheon, Huntsville, AL)

Elise Haley (B.Sc., 2007; SURF 2006 - summer undergraduate research award; first job: Boeing, Huntsville, AL)

David Wachira (B.Sc., 2006; SURF 2005 - summer undergraduate research award; first job: Adtran, Huntsville, AL)